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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-211Last update of repository: 18 March 2020Tsentral'nyi voenno-morskoi muzei (TsVMM)Previous names
The richest naval museum in the world began its history in 1709, when Peter the Great decided to build a “Model Chamber” for the purpose of storing technical drawings and models of all ships launched from his shipyards. In 1805 it was converted into a full-fledged museum attached to the Admiralty, and in 1817 named the Naval Museum. Over the years it began to acquire documents and items relating to the history of the Russian Fleet. In 1827, after the Decembrist Uprising, Emperor Nicholas I ordered the museum closed down (two of the Decembrists had worked in the museum), and parts of its collections were dispersed among other institutions or acquired by private individuals. Forty years later under a new emperor, the Naval Museum was revived and its exhibits and fonds created anew, and from 1908–1918 it bore the honorific name of Peter the Great. After the October Revolution it became the Central Naval Museum of the Soviet Republic, and documents and exhibits from nationalized private collections and from the Hermitage and other museums were transferred to it. From 1923 to 1926 its name was changed back to its earlier form, and it came under the control of the People’s Commissariat of the Navy. In 1926 it was given its present name—the Central Naval Museum. In 1939 it was moved into the historic building of the former Stock Exchange (Fondovaia birzha), which had been constructed in 1805–1810 on the design of the Swiss architect Jean-François Thomas de Thomon. In 2013 the museum collections have been moved to the reconstructed Kriukov barracks (Kriukovskie kazarmy)—an architectural and historical monument of the mid-ninetieth century. The museum currently has six branches: http://www.navalmuseum.ru/branch.php): (1) The Museum on the Cruiser “Aurora” (Muzei na kreisere “Avrora”), (197046, St. Petersburg, Petrogradskaia nab., tel. +7 812 607-49-22; website: http://www.aurora.org.ru; http://www.navalmuseum.ru/filials/cru...; http://www.museum.ru/M154). (2) The D–2 Submarine “Narodovolets” Museum (Muzei “Podvodnaia lodka D–2 “Narodovolets”) (199106, St. Petersburg, Vasil'evskii ostrov, Shkiperskii protok, 10; tel. +7 812 356-52-66, +7 812 356-52-77; website: http://www.navalmuseum.ru/filials/nar...; http://www.museum.ru/M155). (3) The Lifeline Museum (Muzei “Doroga zhizni”) (188675, Leningrad oblast, Vsevolozhskii raion, Rakh'inskoe gorodskoe poselenie, st. “Ladozhskoe Ozero”; tel. +7 813-70 3-37-72; website: http://www.navalmuseum.ru/filials/lif...; http://www.museum.ru/M266). (4) The Kronstadt Fortress Museum (Muzei “Kronshtadtskaia krepost'”) (189610, Kronshtadt, Iakornaia pl., 1, 5A, ul. Makarovskaia, 3; website: http://www.navalmuseum.ru/filials/kro...; http://www.museum.ru/M156). (5) The Museum of the Baltic Fleet (Muzei Baltiiskogo flota) (238520, Kaliningrad Oblast., Baltiisk, ul. Kronshtadtskaia, 1; tel.: +7 401-45 6-41-87; website: http://www.navalmuseum.ru/filials/bal...) Ship Military Glory “Mikhail Kutuzov” (Korabl' boevoi slavy “Mikhail Kutuzov”) (353900, Krasnodar Krai, Novorossiisk, nab. Admirala Serebriakova, 2A; tel.: +7 938 403-44-82; website: http://www.navalmuseum.ru/filials/cru...). |
