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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-223

Last update of repository: 18 March 2020

Gosudarstvennyi khudozhestvenno-arkhitekturnyi i dvortsovo-parkovyi muzei-zapovednik “Oranienbaum” (Lomonosov, Leningrad Oblast) (GMZ “Oranienbaum”)


Osnovnoi muzeinyi fond
[Basic Museum Fond]

Opening hours: by appointment

Holdings

Total: ca. 600 units; late 18th c.–1917
drafts—226 units (late 18th–late 19th cc.); photographs—226 (early 19th–early 20th cc.); manuscripts—90 units (1796–1917)

Within the Basic Museum Fond, the Rare Books Fond retains some files of the Oranienbaum Palace Administration (Oranienbaumskoe dvortsovoe pravlenie) (1796–1917, 90 files), including inventories of the palace and park buildings, construction and restoration plans, blueprints and technical drawings (late 18th c.–late 19th c.), and photographs (late 19th c.–early 20th c.). There are also draft plans for the Great Menshikov Palace at Oranienbaum, which was built by E. Preis and Oscar Gustav (O.E.) Paulson during the second half of the nineteenth century.
        The Graphic Arts Fond contains folders with scaled projections of the palace and park ensemble done by the French topographic engineer Pierre-Antoine de Saint-Hilaire during the last quarter of the eighteenth century and technical drawings made by the architect Antonio Rinaldi in 1772.



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