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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-230Last update of repository: 18 March 2020Gosudarstvennyi muzei gorodskoi skul'ptury (GMGS)Previous names
The first museum within the Alexander Nevskii Monastery (Aleksandro-Nevskaia Lavra) was founded in 1909 as the so-called Early Depository (Drevlekhranilishche), which lasted until 1918 and the early 1920s, when the Monastery was closed as a religious institution; its exhibits were transferred to the Russian Museum. A Necropolis-Museum (Muzei-nekropol'), was founded in 1923, when the cemeteries and burial vaults of the Monastery were taken over by the state. Renamed the Museum of Tombstones (Muzei nadgrobnykh pamiatnikov) in 1932, it was reorganized in 1936–1937 as the Leningrad Necropolis on the territory of the Alexander Nevskii Monastery. It then included the cemeteries of Lazarus (founded in 1716) and Tikhvinskoe (also known as the Necropolis of Masters of Art), the building of the Church of the Annunciation (Tserkov' Blagoveshcheniia) (1717–1722), the oldest in the Lavra, and part of the Volkovo Cemetery (founded in the 18th c.). The Lazarus Necropolis had earlier in the 1920s been included as part of the Museum of Old St. Petersburg. In 1939 the museum was again reorganized as the Museum of Urban Sculpture, and all the historical cemeteries, monuments, and memorial plaques in the city came under its control. The necropolis was opened to visitors in 1947, and thereafter (1975), an exhibition of original autograph models for tombstones and memorial monuments in the cemetery and other city memorial sculpture was opened in the building of Church of the Annunciation. The museum now has two branches: (1) The Literary Bridges Necropolis-Museum (Muzei-nekropol' “Literatorskie mostki”), which, comprising a major part of the Volkovo Cemetery, came under the Leningrad Necropolis Museum in the 1930s. The museum opened an exhibit in the former Church of the Ascension (Voznesenskaia tserkov') in 1955. (196159, St. Petersburg, ul. Rasstannaia, 30; tel. +7 911 921-00-71; e-mail: [email protected]; website: http://www.gmgs.ru/expoz/lmst. (2) The Narva Triumphal Arch Museum-Monument (Muzei-pamiatnik “Narvskie triumfal'nye vorota”), which was opened in 1987 with memorial exhibitions celebrating victory in the Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon and the subsequent European campaigns of the Russian Army. (198095, St. Petersburg, pl. Stachek; tel. +7 812 786-97-82; website: http://www.gmgs.ru/expoz/narvor). N.B. Most of the records of the museum itself for the years 1939–1968 are held in TsGALI SPb (D–18, fond 405). |
