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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-229Last update of repository: 18 March 2020Gosudarstvennyi muzei-pamiatnik “Isaakievskii sobor” (GMIS)Previous names
The museum was founded in 1928 in what had been the main church of St. Petersburg—St. Isaac’s Cathedral (Sobor Isaakia Dalmatskogo), which was built between 1818 and 1858 as designed by the French architect Auguste Ricard de Montferrand. In 1928 the religious community of the Cathedral was disbanded on the order of the People’s Commissariat of Education and the building was placed under the control of the Main Administration for Scientific, Museum, and Scientific-Art Institutions (Glavnauka). In 1931 the State Antireligious Museum was opened to the public in the former cathedral, but it lasted only until 1937, when it was closed down and its holdings transferred to the Museum of the History of Religion under the Academy of Sciences (H–107) in the former Kazan Cathedral. In 1937 the museum changed its orientation to become a museum of history and art with the new name of the Isaac Cathedral State Museum-Monument (Gosudarstvennyi muzei-pamiatnik “Isaakievskii sobor”). During the war the cellars and outbuildings of the cathedral were used as a repository for the museum holdings removed from the Leningrad suburban palaces. During the 1960s the museum was administered as a branch of the State Museum of the History of Leningrad (H–200). In 1969 it was given independent status, and since 1977 it has had its present name. Orthodox religious services were resumed in the cathedral in 1990. The Isaac Cathedral Museum has two branches, neither of which has separate archival holdings: (1) The Bleeding Saviour Museum-Monument (Muzei-pamiatnik “Spas na krovi”), which has been a branch since 1970, occupies the former Church of the Resurrection (khram Voskreseniia Khristova), which was built between 1883–1907 on the spot where Emperor Alexander II was assassinated. (191011, St. Petersburg, nab. Kanala Griboedova, 2-a; tel. +7 812 315-16-36; +7 812 314-40-96; webpages: http://www.museum.ru/M179). (2) Smolnyi Cathedral (Smol'nyi sobor) (St. Petersburg, pl. Rastrelli, 3/1; http://www.museum.ru/M3062). The Sampson Cathedral Museum-Monument (Muzei-pamiatnik “Sampsonievskii sobor”), which had been a branch since 1984, occupying the former Sampson Cathedral—one of the oldest churches in St. Petersburg (1728–1740), built to honor the victory at Poltava under Peter I, was transmitted to the Russian Orthodox church in 2017. (194044, Bol'shoi Sampsonievskii prosp., 41; webpages: http://www.museum.ru/M180. N.B. Most of the museum records for the years 1928–1950 and 1961 have been transferred to state archival custody and are now held in TsGALI SPb (D–18, fond 330 [9480]). |
