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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-235Last update of repository: 18 March 2020Gosudarstvennyi Ermitazh (GE)Otdel numizmatiki [Division of Numismatics] Telephone: +7 812 710-96-29 E-mail: [email protected]Website: http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/po... Opening hours: WTh 11:00–16:00Head: Vitalii Aleksandrovich Kalinin (tel. +7 812 710-96-29) Holdings Total: ca. 100 units; 18th–20th cc. The archive and library of the Division of Numismatics holds a number of manuscript scholarly catalogues of the numismatics collections of the Hermitage (18th–20th cc.) and of collections of other museums, institutions, and societies, as well as of the private collections acquired by the museum. These include a manuscript album entitled: “Drawings of Russian Medals and Interesting Coins Made for Triumphal Celebrations and for Joyful and Sorrowful Occasions” (early 18th c.) and the inventories (Reviziia) of the Mintskabinet and of the “Exceptional Valuables” (dragotsennoe) collection in the Kunstkammer (1768); manuscripts by two of Hermitage curators, A.I. Luzhkov (1780s) and G. Nigri, the latter containing a general survey of the Mintskabinet (1820s); and catalogues compiled by the curators, Heinrich Karl Ernst Köhler (ca. 1830), K.I. Sedzher (1838), and Marie-Felicité (M.I.) Brosset (1861). There are also catalogues of the collections in the Numismatic Museum of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1836, 1854, 1894) and in the Academy of Arts (1923); catalogues of the private collections of General P.K. Sukhtelen (Suchtelen) (1823), A.Ia. Italinskii (1828), G.I. Lisenko (1830s), and the Pskov merchant F.M. Pliushkin (1925); and Jakob Reichel; O.F. Retovskii’s collection of coins from the Trebizond Empire (1926); the collections of Hofmeister (Steward of the Household) G.P. Alekseev (1927), Count I.I. Tolstoi (1918), and N.P. Likhachev (1938); designs for the Constantine rouble (1825) which would have been issued had Alexander I’s brother, Konstantin Pavlovich, not abdicated in favor of his younger brother, Nicholas I; inventories of the Kyiv Pechers'ka Lavra (Monastery of the Caves) treasure (1898); and an unfinished catalogue of Byzantine coins compiled by N.P. Bauer (1918–1919), among others. The division also holds bronze engraving plates for Oriental coins, designer’s proofs, and lithographic plates of an unpublished volume of the transactions (Zapiski) of theNumismatic Division of the Russian Archeological Society (1919). Working conditions: There is a reading room in the library of the division, where materials are delivered soon after they are ordered. Reference facilities: There are inventories and register books along with alphabetic and subject card catalogues. |
