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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-275Last update of repository: 18 March 2020Gosudarstvennyi muzei istorii religii (GMIR)Fototeka [Fond of Photographs] Website: http://gmir.ru/about/coll/fond_foto/ Holdings Total: over 30,000 units; 1860–2000 The Photograph Archive holds documentary photographs on the history of religion and atheism from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries. There is a large collection of photographs from the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society, which includes pictures of churches, religious monuments belonging to various faiths, and places of religious pilgrimage in Russia and the Middle East. The collection also holds prints showing religious services and celebrations, portraits of priests, and ethnographic materials. The work of the noted St. Petersburg photographer, Karl (K.K.) Bulla, is well represented. There are postrevolutionary documentary photographs on such themes as the work of the religious organizations; relations between Church and State; the history of the antireligious movement (which was comprised of clubs and associations, as well as the Congresses of the Union of Militant Atheists); and the holding of lay ceremonies and celebrations during the Soviet period. There are also the portraits of such noted propagandists of atheism as E.M. Iaroslavskii and A.A. Osipov. Apart from original prints and negatives, there are a large number of reproductions from literature on the history of religion, which are used for exhibition purposes, displays, and albums. Reference facilities: There is a subject card catalogue. |
