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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-235Last update of repository: 18 March 2020Gosudarstvennyi Ermitazh (GE)Otdel rukopisei i dokumental'nogo fonda (Arkhiv i Fotoarkhiv) [Division of Manuscripts and Documentary Fond (Archive and Photograph Archive)] Telephone: +7 812 710-96-46 Reading room: +7 812 710-96-46 E-mail: [email protected]Website: https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/p... Opening hours: WTh 11:00–16:00; Photograph Archive: Tu–Th 11:00–16:30Head: Elizaveta Mikhailovna Iakovleva (tel. +7 812 710-96-46) Head of Photo Archive: Valentina Fedorovna Marishkina (tel. +7 812 710-96-89) Holdings Total: 67 fonds; 44,000 units; 1767–2013 institutional fonds—5 (1767–1991); personal fonds—62 (1800–1982); negatives—75,134 (early 20th c.–1990s); positives—ca. 1,000 (early 20th c.—“1950s) The Hermitage Archive comprises the administrative records of one of the largest museums in the world from the time of its founding to the present day, and accordingly constitutes the basic source for its history and activities—its foundation; the provenance, acquisition, displacement, and transformation of its collections; its organization, exhibition, and restoration functions; and its scientific research, educational, and publication activities. Of particular importance are the original manuscript inventories and catalogues of the private collections accessioned by the Hermitage (late 18th–early 20th cc.), most of which have been preserved, including the collections of Sir Robert Walpole, First Earl of Oxford (accessioned in 1767), D.P. Tatishchev (1846), and the Marquis of Campana (1861), together with those of the St. Petersburg and suburban residences of the imperial family—”the Anichkov Palace, the Elagin Island Palace, the Summer Palace, the Tauride Palace, the palaces of Gatchina, Ropsha, Peterhof, and Tsarskoe Selo, and the Michael (Mikhailovskii) Castle. There are documents granting A.S. Pushkin access to the Voltaire library (1832) and relating to the manuscripts of Peter the Great (1858) held in the museum library. The fond entitled “The Libraries and Arsenals of His Imperial Majesty” (Sobstvennye Ego Imperatorskogo Velichestva biblioteki i arsenaly, 1825–1928) contains files on the acquisition of books, engravings, lithographs, and drawings for the imperial palace libraries. There are also catalogues and inventories of the armory, uniforms, and archeological monuments held in the Tsarskoe Selo Arsenal and the Arsenal of the Nicholas (Nikolaevskii) Palace, as well as correspondence relating to their display in exhibitions and their transfer to various museums. The Fond of the Architect of the Winter Palace (1839–1890s) contains watercolors, lithographs, plans, and technical drawings of the rooms of the Winter Palace, and the buildings of the Hermitage and the Hermitage Theater. A separate fond has been formed for pictorial materials on the history of the Hermitage (1865–1993), which includes posters and tickets, as well as drawings by such Russian and Soviet artists as Alexandre Benois (Benua), S.P. Iaremich, E.K. Lipgardt, V.V. Miliutina, and G.S. Vereiskii, and I.A. Vsevolozhskii, all of whom are connected with the museum. The archive holds materials from the Leningrad Division of Glavnauka of the People’s Commissariat forEducation (Narkompros RSFSR) (1917–1935). These include rulings, regulations, and circular letters of Glavnauka, together with orders, instructions, and documents regarding the accession of objets d’art from private individualsand institutions, the protection of church valuables, the transfer of objets d’art to other museums in Moscow, Leningrad and other cities, and files on the liquidation of the Museum Fond. There are personal papers of various scholars and artists whose work was connected with the Hermitage. These include the papers of the historian and first museum director, S.A. Gedeonov; antiquarians Heinrich Karl Ernst Kühler and Oscar Waldhauer (O.F. Val'dgauer); Egyptologist B.A. Turaev; archeologists B.A. Latynin and A.P. Mantsevich; numismatists N.P. Bauer, R.R. Fasmer, A.K. Markov, O.F. Retovskii, and A.N. Zograf; artists and art specialists A.N. Benois, N.N. Ge, V.F. Levinson-Lessing, E.G. Lisenkov, D.A. Schmidt, and B.K. Veselovskii; and restoration specialist P.I. Kostrov. The Photograph Archive retains photographic materials relating to the Hermitage, as well as an extensive collection of historical daguerrotypes and photographs acquired by the museum and others donated by various organizations during the 1920s and 1930s. Three fonds—originals, reproductions, and positiveprints—”reproduce and provide a complete permanent record of all the museum exhibits, including sculpture, paintings, and decorative or applied art; the facades and interiors of the museum buildings; architectural plans and projects; permanent and temporary exhibitions; the work ofthe museum divisions and the restoration workshops; and portraits of the museum staff. There are also photographs of the prerevolutionary collections of the Hermitage, the interiors of rooms of the imperial family in the Winter Palace, the evacuation of the collections during the First World War, the infirmary, the halls occupied by Provisional Government troops, and some unique shots taken of the rooms in the Winter Palace after the devastation of 26–27 October 1917. There is a large collection of reproductions illustrating the history of world art, including negatives and prints fromthe collections of the Baron Stieglitz (Shtiglits) Museum and the Imperial Carriage Museum (Pridvorno-koniushennyi muzei). The history of photography in Russia is well represented by the collections of such famous St. Petersburg photographers as Gibshman, Karl von Hahn (K.E. Gan), K. Kubesh, and F.L. Mikolaevskii (Nikolaevskii) (the official Hermitage photographer, 1890–1917), among others. N.B. Part of the postrevolutionary records of the Hermitage were transferred to state archival custody and are now held in TsGALI SPb (D–18; fond 5; 1921–1937). Working conditions: Materials are delivered to the reading room soon after they are requested. Reference facilities: There are opisi for individual fonds in the Archive and the Photographic Archive, as well as subject and alphabetic card catalogues. Copy facilities: Photographic and xerox copies can be prepared. |
