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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-4Last update of repository: 16 March 2020Gosudarstvennyi tsentral'nyi muzei sovremennoi istorii Rossii (GTsMSIR)Previous names
The museum was founded in 1924 on the basis of the Moscow Historico-Revolutionary Museum, which had itself been formed in 1923 as a continuation of the so-called Red Moscow Exhibition. This latter had been prepared in 1922 by the Society of the Museum of Revolution (Obshchestvo Muzeia Revoliutsii), under the Executive Committee of Social Organizations in Moscow (Ispolnitel'nyi komitet moskovskikh obshchestvennykh organizatsii) (from 1917). In 1924 the museum was officially named the Museum of Revolution of the USSR, and was transferred to the authority of the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR. During the 1930s the museum was under the control of the Museums and Regional Studies Division of the People’s Commissariat of Education of the RSFSR. In 1947 control of the museum was transferred to the Committee for Cultural and Educational Establishments (Komitet po delam kul'turno-prosvetitel'nykh uchrezhdenii) of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR and was renamed the State Museum of Revolution of the USSR. When the museum was transferred to the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Culture of the USSR in 1968, it was renamed the Central Museum of Revolution of the USSR. In 1992 it was renamed the Museum of Revolution, but in 1998 was given its present name of the State Central Museum of the Contemporary History of Russia. The museum remains located in the building of the former Kheraskov Palace (1780), a monument of eighteenth-century architecture, which from 1831 to 1917 housed the English Club. The museum archival repository, originally known as the Archive and Library Division, and later called the Division for Preservation of Scientific Fonds, was reorganized in 1969 into the Documentary Sector of the Division of Scientific Fonds, which also includes the Photograph Archive. The museum now has six branches: (1) The Presnia Historical-Memorial Museum (Istoriko-memorial'nyi muzei “Presnia”) was founded in 1924. From 1940 it was a branch of the Museum of Revolution, originally memorializing the barricades of the Revolution of 1905 with the diarama “Heroic Presnia, 1905.” It now also presents a number of other exhibits with photographs and documentary materials, including one on the history of the Prokhorov textile mills. (123022, Moscow, Bol'shoi Predtechenskii per., 4; tel. +7 499 252-30-35; fax: +7 495 699-85-15; webpages: https://www.sovrhistory.ru/subsidiary..., http://www.museum.ru/M363). (2) The Museum of the Underground Press 1905–1906 gg. (Muzei “Podpol'naia tipografiia 1905–1906”), founded in 1924 memorializes the site of one of the most important revolutionary presses, which prepared leaflets and handbills for the 1905 Revolution and printed the socialist newspaper Rabochii. There is considerable original documentation and a reconstruction of the historical printing operations. (103055, Moscow, ul. Lesnaia, 55; tel: +7 495 251-69-43; webpages: https://www.sovrhistory.ru/subsidiary..., http://www.museum.ru/M386). (3) The G.M. Krzhizhanovskii Memorial Apartment-Museum (Memorial'nyi muzei-kvartira G.M. Krzhizhanovskogo), founded in 1924, is located in the house where the Soviet CP leader and electrical engineer Gleb Maximilianovich Krzhizhanovskii (1872–1959) lived for 40 years, including the period when he was developing the plan for the electrification of the USSR. (113035, Moscow, ul. Sadovnicheskaia [formerly Osipenko], 30; tel. +7 495 953-06-40; webpages: https://www.sovrhistory.ru/subsidiary..., http://www.museum.ru/M365). As of February 2016 closed for repair. (4) The Evgenii Evtushenko Museum and Gallery in Peredelkino (Muzei-galereia E. Evtushenko v Peredelkino), opened by Russian and Soviet poet Evgenii Aleksandrovich Evtushenko in July 2010 (Moscow Oblast, Leninskii raion, DSK “Michurinets”, ul. Gogolia, 1a; tel. +7 495 590-83-56, +7 495 928-06-64; website: https://www.sovrhistory.ru/subsidiary...). (5) Katyn Memorial (Memorial'nyi kompleks "Katyn'") (Smolensk Oblast, webpage: https://www.sovrhistory.ru/subsidiary...). (6) Memorial Complex "Mednoe" (Memorial'nyi kompleks "Mednoe") (Tver Oblast, webpage: https://www.sovrhistory.ru/subsidiary...). During the years 1955 through 1991, the State Museum of the Great October Socialist Revolution in Leningrad (Gosudarstvennyi muzei Velikoi Oktiabr'skoi sotsialisticheskoi revoliutsii—GMVOSR), which opened in Petrograd in 1919, was also a branch, but it is now the separate State Museum of the Political History of Russia (GMPIR) (H–201). |
