ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-230

Gosudarstvennyi muzei gorodskoi skul'ptury (GMGS)

Finding Aids —  Published — General:

Archives of Russia (2000), pp. 1065-67; Arkhivy Rossii (1997), pp. 825-26; Khudozh. musei Rossii (1999), pp. 207-208; Muzei SPb (1994), pp. 35-39; Peterburg (1992), pp. 399-400; GAF Spravochnik (1991), p. 124; Muzei Leningrada (1989), pp. 172-76; Muzei Leningrada (1982), pp. 68-73.

h-1215. *Piriutko, Iu.M. Gosudarstvennyi muzei gorodskoi skul'ptury: Kratkii putevoditel'. St. Petersburg: “Ego”, 2002. 36 p.

h-1216. Netunakhina, Galina Dmitrievna. Muzei gorodskoi skul'ptury: Putevoditel'. 3d ed. Leningrad: Lenizdat, 1981. 144 p. (Lib: MH).
        2d ed. (with Nina Iliodorovna Udimova): Muzei gorodskoi skul'ptury: Kratkii putevoditel'. L. 1972. 183 p. “Turistu o Leningrade.” (Lib: MH)
        1st ed. (with Nina Iliodorovna Udimova): Muzei gorodskoi skul'ptury. Gorodskie pamiatniki. Nekropol' Aleksandro-Nevskoi lavry. Literatorskie mostki. Leningrad: Lenizdat, 1962. 251 p. (Lib: MH).

A brief history and guide to the cemetery and museum exhibits.

h-1217. * Muzei Sankt-Peterburga: vystavka novykh postuplenii: 1996–2001. Muzei gorodskoi skul'ptury. St. Petersburg: Pal'mira, 2002. “Peterburgskii al'bom.” (Lib: MH).

h-1218. Istoricheskie kladbishcha Peterburga: Spravochnik-putevoditel'. Compiled by A.V. Kobiak and I.M. Piriutko. St. Petersburg: Izd-vo Chernysheva, 1993. 639 p. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

A very detailed guide based on extensive archival research covering cemeteries in St. Petersburg, many of which have been associated with the museum. See the lengthy historical chapter (pp. 8–60), drawing on materials in the museum (along with other sources), and other introductory essays on architecture, epitaphs, and various styles of tombs. Guides to specific cemeteries that come under the museum include extensive coverage of Alexander Nevskii Lavra (pp. 130–61), and the branch Literary Bridges Necropolis-Museum, including Volkovo Cemetery (pp. 315–54).

h-1219. Sobranie sovetskoi skul'ptury: Katalog. Compiled by G.N. Shkoda. Leningrad: “Sovetskii khudozhnik”, 1968. 112 p. Preface by G.N. Shkoda. [Upravlenie kul'tury Ispolkoma Lengorsoveta; Muzei gorodskoi skul'ptury].

Includes an index of names (pp. 110–12).