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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-235Last update of repository: 18 March 2020Gosudarstvennyi Ermitazh (GE)Otdel istorii russkoi kul'tury [Division of the History of Russian Culture] Telephone: +7 812 710-96-78 E-mail: [email protected]Website: https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/p... Opening hours: WTh 11:00–17:00Head: Viacheslav Anatol'evich Fedorov (tel. +7 812 710-96-61) Holdings Total: ca. 85,000 units; 15th–20th cc. drawings and watercolors—ca. 11,000 units; etchings—more than 40,000 units; MS books—233 units (14th–19th cc.); photographs—ca. 40,000 units The division holds Slavonic and Russian manuscript books, manuscripts, and documents (15th–18th cc.), acquired from urban churches or from private collectors. The F.A. Kalikin collection (purchased in 1948) contains, for example, a codex with tales and epistles of Maksim Grek (16th c.); the “Russian Grapes” (“Vinograd rossiiskii”) of S. Denisov (18th c.); a seventeenth-century land-survey register (Kniga soshnogo i vytnogo pis'ma) with additional “Arithmetic” (“Arifmetika”); an Old Believer Pomor'e “Answers” (Pomorskie otvety) (1723); a sixteenth-century Prologue; and a large collected sixteenth- and seventeenth-century codex including tales, legends, lives of saints, and other compositions. Alsoof Pomor'e provenance is a richly ornamented sixteenth-century Books of the Apostles and an eighteenth-century book of canticles (Stikhiry). From other collections the division has acquired several dozen scrolled registers (stolbtsy) (17th–18th cc.) containing household records, business transactions, extracts from census registers, petitions, letters patent, and charters (including the imperial charter issued to the merchant Ia. Stroganov in 1568); fifteenth- and sixteenth-century illuminated Gospels;a list of noble ranks and titles (Tituliarnik); a mid-seventeenth-century field church calendar (Mesiatseslov), once belonging to Colonel G.V. Vul'f (Wolff) of the Petrine Army; an illuminated manuscript of the Vision of St. Gregory (Grigor'evo videnie) (late 17th c.); an eighteenth-century Nomocanon (Kormchaia); an early nineteenth-century album of verses illustrated with watercolors; and a collection of eighteenth-century Old Believer manuscript religious codices (sborniki). The collections of Russian Graphic Arts include drawings, watercolors, engravings, lithographs and plates illustrating the military uniforms of all the countries in the world. There is also a unique collection of portraits of the Decembrists and pictures of the places where they were held in confinement and sent into exile to Siberia. There are folders of the watercolors and drawings of O.A. Kiprenskii, G.G. Gagarin, and other masters of the Russian school. The division also holds photographs and postcards showingthe history, culture, religion, and art of the peoples of Russia. |
