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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-237Last update of repository: 18 March 2020Nauchno-issledovatel'skii muzei pri Rossiiskoi Akademii khudozhestv (NIM RAKh)Previous names
The oldest art museum in Russia, NIM RAKh was originally founded in 1757 at the same time as the Academy of Arts. It is still housed in its handsome original building on the Neva Embankment, erected in 1765–1788 from the plans of Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe by A.F. Kokorinov. By the beginning of the twentieth century the art and historical collections in the Imperial Academy of Arts included a Picture Gallery, the separate Count N.A. Kushelev-Bezborodko Picture Gallery, the Kraushold (V.E. Krauzol'd) Collection of Paintings, a Museum of Ancient and Western European Sculpture, a collection of architectural models of the Alhambra, early Roman monuments, and other Western architectural ensembles, a collection of architectural drawings, and a collection of medals and coins known as the Mint Cabinet (Mintskabinet; from the German Münzkabinet). After the October Revolution the museum was abolished and part of its fonds were transferred to the Hermitage, the Russian Museum, and to a number of provincial museums. The remaining exhibits were used to form a museum that became part of the network of art workshops and studios and subsequently of the Higher Technical Art Institute, which in 1930 was reorganized as the Institute of Proletarian Fine Arts and then after 1933 as the Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture of the All-Russian Academy of Arts. After the formation of the Academy of Arts of the USSR in 1947, the museum was given the status of a research center. Together with other subdivisions of the Russian Academy of Arts, the museum (NIM RAKh) is now under the control of the Presidium of the Academy of Arts. Archival materials are held in several different divisions of the museum. Separate exhibitions with related archival materials are also housed in four branches: (1) The I.I. Brodskii Apartment-Museum (Muzei-kvartira I.I. Brodskogo), opened in 1949 in the apartment where the painter Isaak Izrailevich Brodskii (1884–1939), professor and director of the All-Russian Academy of Arts (1934–1939), lived and worked from 1924 to 1939 (191011, St. Petersburg, pl. Iskusstv, 3, kv. 1; tel. +7 999 034-45-53; e-mail: [email protected]; websites: http://artsacademymuseum.org/muzej-kv...; http://www.museum.ru/M167)—see H–238. (2) The Chistiakov House-Museum (Dom-muzei P.P. Chistiakova), opened in 1987 in the Chistiakov country house (dacha) in the town of Pushkin (before 1918, Tsarskoe Selo; 1918–1937, Detskoe Selo) that once belonged to painter and art teacher Pavel Petrovich Chistiakov (1832–1919), a professor of portrait and historical painting at the Imperial Academy of Arts (196600, St. Petersburg, g. Pushkin, Moskovskoe shosse, 23; tel. +7 999 034-45-53; websites: http://artsacademymuseum.org/dom-muze...; http://www.museum.ru/M169)—see H–239. (3) The Kuindzhi Apartment-Museum (Muzei-kvartira A.I. Kuindzhi) (see below) established in 1991, was opened in 1993 in the apartment (near the RAKh museum) where the well-known landscape painter and professor of the Academy of Arts, Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi (1841–1910), lived from 1897 until his death in 1910 (199004, St. Petersburg, Birzhevoi per., 1/10, kv. 11; tel. +7 999 034-45-53; e-mail: [email protected]; webpages: http://artsacademymuseum.org/muzej-kv...; http://www.museum.ru/M168). (4) The I.E. Repin Penates Estate-Museum (Muzei-usad'ba I.E. Repina “Penaty”), opened in 1940 on the country estate of the Russian painter Il'ia Efimovich Repin (1844–1930) in the village of Kuokkala (now Repino), where Repin lived from 1903 to 1930 (197738, Leningradskaia Oblast, Repino, Primorskoe shosse, 411; tel. +7 999 034-45-53; e-mail: [email protected]; websites: http://artsacademymuseum.org/muzej-us...; http://www.museum.ru/M267)—see H–240. For former branch of NIM RAKh S.T. Konenkov Memorial Studio-Museum (Memorial'nyi muzei-masterskaia S.T. Konenkova) in Moscow, see H–52. N.B. For more details about the history of the RAKh and descriptions of the RAKh Bibliographic Archive and the Photographic Reproduction Archive, see E–56; for the RAKh Scientific-Library, see G–18. |
