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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-222Last update of repository: 18 March 2020Gosudarstvennyi dvortsovo-parkovyi i istoriko-khudozhestvennyi muzei-zapovednik “Gatchina” (Gatchina, Leningrad Oblast) (GMZ “Gatchina”)Holdings Total: ca. 12,300 units, 1749–1990s rare books—4,600 units; scientific auxiliary archive—1,700 units; technical drawings—ca. 1,300 units (18th–20th cc.); manuscripts—469 units (1783–1895); watercolors and miniatures—501 units; prints—459 units (18th–20th cc.); photographs and negatives—1,450 (19th–20th cc.) Archival materials are all considered part of the general Division of Fonds of the museum, although they are actually retained in the Fond of Manuscripts, the Fond of Watercolors and Drawings, the Fond of Technical Drawings, the Fond of Engravings, the Fond of Rare Books, the Fond of Photographs and Negatives, and the archive of the Scientific Division of the museum. The Fond of Manuscripts contains documents from the Tower Cabinet (Bashennyi kabinet) of Paul I in the Gatchina Palace and part of the archive of the Gatchina Palace Administration (Gatchinskoe dvortsovoe pravlenie) (1783–1845, 1895). They include documentation on those serving in the palace military units and the palace guard, accounts of military maneuvres, descriptions of the estate, and documents relating to economic and property management. Among the manuscripts are “A Shoreline Inventory of the Gatchina Lakes” (Beregovaia opis' Gatchinskikh ozer) (1783), which contains an account of the estates owned by Count G.G. Orlov, and daily reports on construction of the palace and park during the years 1793–1795. There is also a fond with materials relating to Lieutenant-General M.M. Borozdin, a hero of the Napoleonic War of 1812, containing the family tree of the Borozdin family as well as letters and orders issued by Catherine II, Paul I, Maria Fedorovna, Alexander I, and Nicholas I. The Fond of Watercolors and Drawings contains a late eighteenth-century “Atlas of the Gatchina Palace” (Atlas Gatchinskomu dvortsu), compiled by Admiral Count G.G. Kushelev for Paul I, and a travel album with drawings by the architect N.A. L'vov, which was compiled during his journey back and forth from St. Petersburg to the estate of Nikol'skoe near Torzhok (1789–1803). The Fond of Technical Drawings contains draft plans for buildings erected in St. Petersburg and its suburbs (mid-18th–19th c.). They include plans for the facade and drafts for the interior decoration of the Winter Palace (including the Throne Room by Giacomo Quarenghi); draft designs for the banqueting tables in the Winter and Summer Palaces in St. Petersburg and the Kremlin Palace in Moscow done by Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli in the time of the Empress Elizabeth (Elizaveta Petrovna); and plans and facades for the palaces at Oranienbaum and Ropsha. There are also plans and copies of designs for town, palace, and park buildings at Gatchina (late 18th c.–late 19th c.), which have been signed by such architects as Vincenzo Brenna and A.M. Baikov (some of thesebear the signature of approval of the Empress Maria Fedorovna), N.V. Dmitriev, and R.I. Kuz'min. There are also the draft plans for the St. Petersburg Synagogue (late 19th c.). The Fond of Engravings contains the original works of a number of Russian nineteenth- and twentieth-century artists depicting full-dress military uniforms from the time of Paul I and Alexander I done in watercolors and gold. Manuscript inventories of the palace furniture (1917–1925 and 1938–1940) have been preserved. The auxiliary fond has an album with photographs of Gatchina from the late nineteenth century, as well as pre- and postwar photographs and negatives of the palace and parks, the interior decoration, sculpture, and other exhibits in the museum collections. Recently the museum received as a gift from Elizabeth II, Queen of England, duplicates of photographs showing the visits of the last Russian emperors to Gatchina. |
