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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-47Last update of repository: 17 March 2020Gosudarstvennyi muzei izobrazitel'nykh iskusstv im. A.S. Pushkina (GMII)Otdel rukopisei [Division of Manuscripts] Address: ul. Volkhonka, 8 (entrance from the Kolymazhnyi pereulok, 10/2) Telephone: +7 495 697-46-42 Reading room: +7 495 697-66-39 E-mail: [email protected]Website: https://pushkinmuseum.art/museum/stru... (Rus); https://pushkinmuseum.art/museum/stru... (Eng) Opening hours: RdngRm: TuTh 10:00–16:00Head: Margarita Borisovna Aksenenko (tel. +7 495 697-46-42) Holdings The Division of Manuscripts retains the records of a number of state institutions, some private collections, and the personal papers of many important individuals and families in the world of art and culture in both the prerevolutionary and Soviet periods. There is documentation from other state museums whose holdings were transferred to the museum, such as the Fine Arts Division of the Public Rumiantsev Museum (Otdelenie iziashchnykh iskusstv Publichnogo Rumiantsevskogo muzeia) and the State Museum of Modern Western Art (Gosudarstvennyi muzei novogo zapadnogo iskusstva), and from the organizations and institutions that founded the museum, namely the Museum Development Committee (Komitet po ustroistvu Muzeia) and the Building Commission (Stroitel'naia komissiia). The administrative records of the museum itself are also retained here, with numerous documents relating to the history, development, and activities of the museum, its acquisition of nationalized collections, and its international relations (1912–1990). Another group of documents results from various events held in the museum, such as the fond of the International Chess Tournament, which was held there in 1935. In 1993 part of the documents from the Ancient Art and Archeology Division were transferred to the archive, including field reports and the inventoried finds from archeological expeditions organized by the museum since the 1930s. Personal papers are a large and important component of the museum archive. These include, for example, the fond of the Tsvetaev family (1870–1985), with the papers of the museum’s first director I.V. Tsvetaev, and those of the architect R.I. Klein, which contain his correspondence with Tsvetaev. Also from the prerevolutionary period are the personal papers of the art collectors N.S. Mosolov, S.P. Vinogradov, and N.I. Vishniakov, among others, whose collections now form part of the museum. The archive holds the personal papers of successive museum directors, including V.K. Mal'mberg and N.I. Romanov, and B.N. Ternov, who directed the State Museum of Modern Western Art. Personal papers are retained of important specialists on the museum staff, including such art critics as V.Ia. Adariukov, A.D. Chegodaev, and B.R. Vipper. The extensive fond of art critic and collector P.D. Ettinger (1888–1948) includes correspondence with many Russian and Soviet artists and writers. There are personal papers of a number of Russian and Soviet artists of various schools and trends, including D.D. Burliuk, D.N. Mitrokhin, and A.I. Troianovskii. The archive also has papers of the French artist Ferdinand Léger and the American graphic artist Rockwell Kent. Among other documentation of foreign artists are materials of the French artist Henri Matisse (among the papers of his private secretary L.N. Delektorskaia), and letters of Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall, among many others. There are also some sound recordings from museum events and conferences in the 1970s and 1980s. Working conditions: The Division has a small reading room. Reference facilities: There are opisi, as well as name and subject card catalogues. The list of fonds and collections available on the website of the Division: https://pushkinmuseum.art/museum/stru.... |
