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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-214Last update of repository: 18 March 2020Gosudarstvennyi memorial'nyi muzei A.V. Suvorova (GMM A.V. Suvorova)Previous names
The museum was founded on the basis of an exhibition that was opened in 1900 at the Nicholas (Nikolaevskaia) Military Academy under the Army General Staff to mark the centennial of the death of the Russian military commander Aleksandr Vasil'evich Suvorov (1730–1800). Between 1901 and 1904 a special building, financed by public subscription, was constructed to house the new museum, which was opened in 1904 under the auspices of the Nicholas Academy. In 1918 the exhibits together with the Academy were evacuated to Ekaterinburg, and subsequently to Kazan, where they were captured by the White Army and taken to Vladivostok along with the Academy of the General Staff. In 1919 the museum building was turned over to the Petrograd Corps of Military Engineers, and the remaining property to the military section of the Division for Protection of Monuments of Art and Antiquity (Otdel okhrany pamiatnikov isskustva i stariny). In 1922 both the museum building and its property were assigned to the Division of Museums of the Petrograd Administration of Scientific Institutions (Petrogradskoe upravlenie nauchnykh uchrezhdenii) of the Academic Center under the People’s Commissariat of Education. In 1923 the property of the Nicholas Academy of the General Staff was transferred to the Military Academy of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army (RKKA) in Moscow. Shortly afterwards the exhibits of the Suvorov Museum were returned to Petrograd, but the museum itself was not opened to the public. In 1925 its fonds were turned over to the Military Historical Daily-Life Museum (Voennyi istoriko-bytovoi muzei). In 1932 the building came under the control of the Lenin Military and Political Academy (Voenno-politicheskaia akademiia im. Lenina), and then it was used as a clubhouse for the Academy of Military Transport (Voenno-transportnaia akademiia). Later in the 1930s the building housed the Aircraft Museum (Aeromuzei), and in 1937 the exhibits of the Suvorov Museum were transferred to the Artillery History Museum (H–210). The building was damaged by a bomb in 1943, and was restored in 1950–1951, after which the museum was again opened to the public. |
