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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-272Last update of repository: 18 March 2020Rossiiskii etnograficheskii muzei (REM)Arkhiv [Archive] Opening hours: TuW 10:00–17:00 Holdings Total: 15 fonds; ca. 17,000 units; 1873–1989 (1806, 1850s–1860s) drawings, prints—9,191 units; institutional fonds—6,514 units; personal papers—701 units The archive hold fonds of institutions, societies, and private individuals who worked in the field of ethnography during the second half of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. There are the administrative records of the Russian Ethnographic Museum itself and its various predecessors: the Ethnographic Division of the Russian Museum; the Central Museum of Ethnology; the State Museum of the Peoples of the USSR in Moscow; the Steering Committee of the First All-Russian Ethnographic Exhibition in Moscow; the Ethnographic Divisions of the Rumiantsev Museum, including the Dashkov collection of national costumes; and the Society of Friends of Natural Science, Anthropology, and Ethnography (Obshchestvo liubitelei estestvoznaniia, antropologii i etnografii) at Moscow University. These materials include documentation on the history of the founding of the museums and the formation of collections; scientific writings and field studies by the museum staff; plans for work; reports on expeditions and assignments; journals and protocols of the academic, methodological, and restoration councils and the Fond Purchasing Commissions; clerical and financial documentation; and personnel records and personal files on the staff. The documents of the Jewish Section of the Ethnographic Division of the Russian Museum (1924–1941) have been preserved and include materials gathered on expeditions by the Section Head, I.M. Pul'ner. There are also documents from the Ethnographic Ensemble (etnograficheskii ansambl') collected by B. Sal'mont, who studied the ethnography of the Buriat Mongols and popularized the science of ethnography. The largest and most valuable of the fonds held by the museum is that of the Ethnographic Bureau of Prince V.N. Tenishev (Etnograficheskoe biuro kn. V.N. Tenisheva), with documents and records illustrating the social, economic, political and legal position and the way of life of the Russian peasantry at the end of the nineteenth century. Prince Tenishev drew up what he called an “Ethnographic Questionnaire on the Peasants of Central Russia” consisting of 500 questions, which he distributed to the rural intelligentsia between 1898 and 1900. The answers to these questions formed the basis of a sizeable archive (1,906 files), which his widow, M.K. Tenisheva, donated to the Ethnographic Division of the Russian Museum in 1904. (Another part of the Tenishev fond is held in the sound recordings archive of the Institute of Russian Literature—IRLI RAN—E-28). The personal fonds in the archive include the papers of the archeologists S.A. Teploukhov (mostly relating to archeological expeditions) and G.A. Bonch-Osmolovskii; the Slavic literature and folklore scholar A.N. Pypin (especially his bibliographic materials relating to Russian and foreign literature and folklore); and the ethnographers A.A. Makarenko, I. Peisak, E.N. Studenetskaia, B.Z. Gamburg, Z.P. Predtechenskaia, and A.S. Morozova. These include their scholarly works and supplementary materials, field diaries and reports of expeditions, inventories of finds and collections, sketches, photographs, other biographical and scientific documents, and correspondence. The museumholds a small collection of 78 manuscript books (17th–19th cc.), some of which were collected by the museum staff on expeditions to the northern regions of Russia between 1928 and 1930. These include the illustrated sinodik (readings for the deceased) for the family of Ostrozhskii princes; two illuminated tsvetniki (edificatory text, or florilegium); “Tale of the Pskov-Pecherskii Monastery” (Povest' o Pskovo-Pecherskom monastyre); two short chronicles; the story of the conception and birth of Peter the Great and the journal of his foreign travels; a description of the coronation of Empress Elizabeth (Elizaveta Petrovna) in 1741; codices with collected writings of the Pomor'e Old Believers; and nineteenth-century codices of verses and songs. The illustrative fond contains drawings, watercolors, and engravings in the traditional styles of the peoples of Russia and other countries. Working conditions: Researchers are accommodated in the working offices of the archive, where materials are delivered the same day they are ordered. Reference facilities: Opisi of processed fonds are available for readers. There is an annotated manuscript index to the Tenishev collection (prepared by A.G. Danilin). Copy facilities: Selected documents may be photocopied for illustrating scholarly publications. |
