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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-38Last update of repository: 16 March 2020Sergievo-Posadskii gosudarstvennyi istoriko-khudozhestvennyi muzei-zapovednik (Sergiev Posad, Moscow Oblast)Previous names
In April 1920 the Sergiev Historico-Art Museum was established within the territory and compound encompassing the buildings of the Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Monastery (Sviato-Troitse-Sergieva Lavra)—the richest monastery in Russia, which was founded in 1345. Initially all of the Lavra collections were nationalized and became part of the museum. In 1919 the rich sacristy collection of the Lavra, with its approximately 2,000 manuscripts (12th–17th cc.), together with the library and other manuscript materials within the territory of the Lavra, including the collections of the Moscow Theological Academy (Moskovskaia Dukhovnaia Akademiia—MDA, E–69), was organized as the Sergiev Branch of the State Rumiantsev Library and Museum (now RGB—G–1). That arrangement continued for the next decade, and until 1929, some of the manuscripts and books of the Lavra formed a special exhibit within the Sergiev Museum. During 1929–1931, most of the manuscript and archival materials from the Lavra and MDA were transferred to Moscow—many of the manuscript books to what was then the Lenin Library (now RGB—G–1), and the monastery archive to what is now RGADA (B–2). A Regional Studies Museum, founded in 1929 on the basis of some of the monastic collections and other early native handicrafts, in 1939 was reorganized as a Museum of Folk Art and Handicrafts. In 1930, Sergiev-Posad was renamed Zagorsk, honoring the Russian revolutionary leader V.M. Zagorskii (pseud. of V.M. Lubotskii, 1893–1919), and the monastery compound was reorganized as an Historico-Art and Antireligious Museum, after 1930 known simply as the Zagorsk Historico-Art Museum. It was renamed in 1940 the Zagorsk State Historico-Art Museum-Preserve. In 1991, after the historic name of Sergiev-Posad was restored, the museum-preserve took its present name. Recently, more of the monastery compound has been restored to the Church and MDA, which in earlier decades had only been operating in limited facilities. In 1993, the Trinity-St.ÃÂ Sergius Monastery ensemble was named to the international register of historical sites under UNESCO. |
