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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-44Last update of repository: 17 March 2020Vserossiiskoe muzeinoe ob"edinenie “Gosudarstvennaia Tret'iakovskaia galereia” (GTG)Previous names
The gallery was formed in 1856 from the private collection of Pavel Mikhailovich Tret'iakov (1832–1899) (often in English, Tretyakov). Together with the collections made by his brother, Sergei Mikhailovich, the gallery was donated to the City of Moscow in 1892 and, until nationalization in 1918, was called the P.M. and S.M. Tret'iakov Moscow Municipal Art Gallery (Moskovskaia gorodskaia khudozhestvennaia galereia P.M. i S.M. Tret'iakovykh). It was housed in the restructured Tret'iakov House and in a number of adjacent buildings of the same period. The main facade was built in 1902 according to a design by the artist V.M. Vasnetsov. Most recently in the process of major reconstruction of the museum corpus (1985–1994), the premises on Lavrushinskii pereulok have been significantly enlarged and modernized with a new building on the corner of Kadashevskaia Embankment. The additional buildings on Krymskii Val are still in the process of reconstruction, and hence some of the divisions described below may be subject to transfer to different addresses. Although usually known as the State Tret'iakov Gallery, for some official purposes, since 1986 it has also been known as the All-Union, and since 1992, the All-Russian State Tret'iakov Gallery Museum Association (Vserossiiskoe muzeinoe ob"edinenie “Gosudarstvennaia Tret'iakovskaia galereia”). In December 1991 the museum was added to the federal register of the most valuable monuments of the cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation. The library was donated to the Gallery Council after Tret'iakov’s death in 1899. The photograph archive was begun in 1913, when I.E. Grabar' laid the foundations for scholarly work, making the gallery function as a museum. Some years after the museum collections had been nationalized, the manuscript documents, consisting largely of original letters from Pavel Mikhailovich Tret'iakov, were assigned to a separate Archival Division (1922). This Archival Division also received manuscript materials from numerous private collections. (The history of the archival collection of Tret'iakov Gallery is available at: http://www.tretyakovgallery.ru/ru/mus....) In 1941 more than 33,000 archival units that had been acquired by this division were transferred to the newly formed Central State Literary Archive—TsGLA, which is now known as the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art—RGALI (B–7). Those that remained, together with others acquired later from other sources, now comprise the Manuscript Division. The Drawings Division (now the Division of Graphic Arts) was formed in 1924 at the initiative of the art specialist A.V. Bakushanskii. After the Second World War it was closed down but later reconstituted during the 1950s. The museum has four affiliated branches honoring individual artists, which are named as Divisions for the Study of Creative Work (Otdely issledovaniia tvorchestva), each bearing the name of the individual honored. All of them hold some archival documents, including photographs. (Basic coordinates about all of the branches are given on the main GTG website: http://www.tretyakovgallery.ru/). (1) The Studio-Museum of the Sculptress A.S. Golubkina (Memorial'nyi muzei-masterskaia skul'ptora A.S. Golubkinoi, H–45), founded in 1932 (119034, Moscow, Bol'shoi Levshinskii per., 12; tel. +7 495 637-56-82 [also fax], +7 495 637-25-64; e-mail: [email protected]; websites: https://www.tretyakovgallery.ru/for-v...; http://www.museum.ru/M301). Closed for reconstruction. (2) The House-Museum of the Artist V.M. Vasnetsov (Dom-muzei khudozhnika V.M. Vasnetsova, H–46), founded in 1953 in the house where the well-known realist painter Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov lived from 1894 to 1926 (129090, Moscow, per. Vasnetsova, 13; tel. +7 495 681-13-29; websites: https://www.tretyakovgallery.ru/for-v...; http://www.museum.ru/M310). (3) The Memorial Apartment-Museum of the Painter A.M. Vasnetsov (Memorial'nyi muzei-kvartira akademika zhivopisi A.M. Vasnetsova), founded in 1965 as a branch of the Museum of the History of Moscow (see H–5), is located in the house where Apollinarii Mikhailovich Vasnetsov (1856–1933) lived from 1903 until his death. After renovation and expansion, it reopened in 1984, and is now a branch of the Tret'iakov Gallery, with some documentation (including copies) relating to Vasnetsov’s artistic and scholarly activities. (103064, Moscow, Furmannyi per., 6, kv. 21-22; tel. +7 495 608-90-45; webpages: https://www.tretyakovgallery.ru/for-v...; http://www.museum.ru/M331). (4) The House-Museum of the Artist P.D. Korin (Dom-muzei khudozhnika P.D.Korina) opened in 1968 in a building where the Russian painter Pavel Dmitrievich Korin (1892–1967) lived and worked for many years. There are many photographs and some correspondence, but the latter has not yet been processed. The museum now closed for repair. (119435, Moscow, ul. Malaia Pirogovskaia, 16, fligel' 2; tel. +7 499 245-11-90; webpage: https://www.tretyakovgallery.ru/for-v...). N.B. A large part of the records of the Tret'iakov Gallery itself have been systematically transferred to the Central State Archive of Literature and Art (TsGALI), now RGALI (B–7; fond 343, 1883–1917; fond 990, 1918–). |
