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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-236Last update of repository: 18 March 2020Gosudarstvennyi Russkii muzei (GRM)Kollektsiia drevnerusskogo iskusstva [Collection of Early Russian Arts] Website: http://www.rusmuseum.ru/collections/a... Holdings Total: ca. 300 units; 1920s–1994 (some documents late 19th–early 20th cc.) The fond of subsidiary materials includes graphic and printed tracings of icons dating from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century, as used in the practical work of icon painters. There is a collection of tracings taken from fresco paintings in Kyiv, Novgorod, Pskov and other centers of medieval Rus'—the work of V.V. Suslov and student copyists from the Art Study Division of the Academy of Arts during the 1920s. The division archive contains the diaries and working materials of a number of art restorers (1913–1930s), particularly I.Ia. Chelnokov and Ia.V. Sosin (ca. 20 units), reports of restoration inspections of the exhibits held in the Division of Early Russian Painting, plans and reports of the restoration studio for early Russian painting and needlework, the minutes and protocols of scholarly meetings held by the division (1930s–1970s), and texts of reports and catalogues compiled by the division staff (1930s–present). The photograph archive contains the prints of icons in the process of restoration and prerevolutionary photographs of works of early Russian art. These include photographs by I.F. Barshchevskii, of material collected from expeditions to Arkhangel'sk, Leningrad, Novgorod, and Pskov Oblasts and to the Karelian Autonomous Republic (1950s–1970s), along with the working materials for publications issued by the division and photographs of exhibits and museum exhibitions. Reference facilities: There are reference card catalogues of works of art in monasteries and private collections, and of the iconography of many works of art among the museum’s holdings, with reference to available published literature and archival sources. Library facilities: There is a library devoted to the history of early Russian and Byzantine art available to researchers, which contains the collections of two former heads of the division—”Iu.N. Dmitriev and V.K. Laurina. |
