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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-235Last update of repository: 18 March 2020Gosudarstvennyi Ermitazh (GE)Otdel Vostoka [Division of the Orient] Telephone: +7 812 710-90-18 E-mail: [email protected]Website: https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/p... Opening hours: WTh 11:00–17:00Head: Natal'ia Viktorovna Kozlova (tel. +7 812 710-90-18) Holdings Total: ca. 1,000 units; 5th–20th cc. Manuscripts, graphic materials, and photographs are not arranged separately, but are rather intermingled with other parts of the division holdings. The division holds manuscripts on folklore and religious subjects written on papyrus and parchment in Coptic, Greek, and Arabic, which came from the private collections of V.G. Bok, B.A. Turaev, and N.P. Likhachev. Among them are a papyrus with Arabic and Coptic inscriptions and a parchment folio representation of Christ-Emmanuel. There are some Arabic, Persian and Turkish manuscripts (12th–20th cc.), including a copy of the “Khamsek” of the Persian poet Nizami with miniatures from Herat (ancient Aria, in Northwest Afghanistan) prepared in 1431 for Sultan Shah-Rukh. There are more than 20 illuminated Armenian manuscripts (most received from the Lviv Historical Museum in 1924), including a Gospel, which was transcribed in 1200 and decorated with miniatures by Toros the Philosopher in Drazark (Cilician Armenia). Recently revealed among the Hermitage post-World War II trophy collections are 560 Pahlevi papyri and parchments from Middle Persia. From the collection of the Baron Stieglitz Museum there are drawings of the mosaic panels on the Mausoleum of Shah-Zinda in Samarkand (1898–1904); architectural details from the Mausoleum of Gur-Emir drawn by P.P. Pokryshkin (1898); watercolor copies by Romberg of the murals at Afrasiaba (1913); folders of Oriental carpet designscompiled by the artist A.A. Bogoliubov; signed engravings of Arabic inscriptions from the collection of N.I. Veselovskii; Central Asian landscapes by V.A. Krachkovskaia; photographs of the ancient city of Pendzhikent taken by A.Iu. Iakubovskii (1947); and plans and photographs of the caves in the Buddhist Monastery of Kara-Tepe made in 1961 by an expedition headed by B.Ia. Stavisskii. The division also holds the archives of the art historian and Byzantine scholar, A.P. Smirnov (1889–1930). Working conditions: Researchers are accommodated in the working offices. Reference facilities: There are inventory registers and inventories as well as subject and alphabetic card catalogues. |
