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Gosudarstvennyi muzei izobrazitel'nykh iskusstv im. A.S. Pushkina (GMII)


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Archives of Russia (2000), pp. 882-88; Arkhivy Rossii (1997), pp. 670-75; Khudozh. muzei (1999), pp. 111-13; Muzei Moskvy (1997), pp. 89-93; GAF Spravochnik (1991), pp. 50-55; PKG M&L (1972), p. 293.


A guide to personal papers in the archive and a catalogue of the Egyptian papyri are being prepared for publication.
 

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Division of Manuscripts
Division of Graphic Art


h-409. 100 let Gosudarstvennomu muzeiu izobrazitel'nykh iskusstv imeni A.S. Pushkina: Iubileinyi al'bom, 1912–2012. Edited by K. Iskol'dskaia and A. Tkachenko. 2 vols. Moscow: Izdatel'stvo “Gamma-Press”, 2012. (Lib: DLC).
        Vol. 1: 520 p. Electronic ed. (some pages): http://www.arts-museum.ru/data/publis....
        Vol. 2: 328 p. Electronic ed. (some pages): http://www.arts-museum.ru/data/publis....

h-410. Gosudarstvennomu muzeiu izobrazitel'nykh iskusstv im. A.S. Pushkina—100 let: 1898–1998. Edited by I.E. Danilova, T.P. Vladimirskaia, et al. Moscow: “Galart”, 1998. 420 p. + plates. (Lib: DLC).

A richly illustrated jubilee edition. Includes articles on the history of the museum, the organization and activities of separate divisions, and its holdings of art and archival materials.

h-411. 50 let Gosudarstvennomu muzeiu izobrazitel'nykh iskusstv im. A.S. Pushkina: Sbornik statei. Edited by B.R. Vipper. Moscow: Izd-vo Akademii khudozhestv, 1962. 352 p. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH) [IDC-R-11,030].

An anniversary collection of articles about the museum. Of particularly relevance here are the following:
        R.I. Rubinshtein, “Sobranie rukopisei Otdela drevnego Vostoka GMII im. A.S. Pushkina” (pp. 52–58), which provides a detailed history of the formation of the collections in the Oriental Sector, a large part of which were collected by V.S. Golenishchev; footnotes cite earlier literature on many of the manuscripts.
        N.N. Vodo, “Stoletie Graviurnogo kabineta” (pp. 14–30), which provides a detailed history of the formation and development of the Engravings Office in the prerevolutionary Rumiantsev Museum, the holdings from which are a basic part of the Division of Graphic Arts.

h-412. 70 let Gosudarstvennomu muzeiu izobrazitel'nykh iskusstv im. A.S. Pushkina. Edited by I.I. Pruss. Moscow: “Sovetskii khudozhnik”, 1982. 255 p. + plates. “Muzei: Khudozhestvennye sobraniia SSSR,” vol. 3. (Lib: MH).

The entire issue of the museum serial consists of a collection of articles in honor of the seventieth anniversary of the museum, with articles about the history, holdings, and activities of the museum. In contrast to the fiftieth-anniversary volume (h–411), there is no new survey of the archival holdings, although a short section by A.A. Demskaia, “Istoriia kollektsii po arkhivnym dokumentam” (pp. 196–214) presents excerpts of documents from the museum archive. A report by A.K. Korovina summarizes the archeological expeditions undertaken by the museum over the past 50 years (pp. 115–21), and there is a bibliography of museum publications (1939–1981) (pp. 136–38). It also includes a short illustrated article about the fate of the Dresden Gallery by N.E. Eliasberg, “Kartiny Drezdenskoi galerei v GMII (1945–1955)” (pp. 233–35).

h-413. Era Rumiantsevskogo muzeia: Iz istorii formirovaniia sobraniia GMII im. A.S. Pushkina. Edited by K.G. Bogemskaia and G.I. Vzdornyi. 2 vols. Moscow: Izd-vo “Krasnaia ploshchad'”, 2010. (Lib: DLC).
        Vol. 1: Kartinnaia galereia. 612 p.
        Vol. 2: Graviurnyi kabinet. 348 p.

h-414. Sedova, T. “Muzeiu sem'desiat let.” Khudozhnik, 1982, no. 6, pp. 42–63. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

Provides a short history of the museum and its collections.

h-415. Demskaia, Aleksandra Andreevna. “Muzei v pervye gody Sovetskoi vlasti.” Soobscheniia Gosudarstvennogo muzeia izobrazitel'nykh iskusstv im. A.S. Pushkin 5 (1975), pp. 117–25.

h-416. Kuznetsova, I.A. “Muzei v gody Velikoi Otechestvennoi voiny.” Muzei, 1982, no. 3, pp. 226–30. (Lib: IU; MH).

h-417. Demskaia, Aleksandra Andreevna. Gosudarstvennyi muzei izobrazitel'nykh iskusstv im. A.S. Pushkina. Moscow: “Iskusstvo”, 1979. 239 p. + 10 plates. “Goroda i muzei mira.” (Lib: MH).

A detailed tourist guide to the museum with a lengthy introductory history (pp. 7–69).

h-418. Gosudarstvennyi muzei izobrazitel'nykh iskusstv im. Pushkina: Al'bom. Compiled by A.N. Zamiatina. Moscow: “Izobrazitel'noe iskusstvo”, 1975. 11 p. + 106 plates. (Lib: DLC; MH).

A large-format display album with reproductions from the museum collections. Includes a brief introductory history of the museum.

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h-420. Aleksandrov, Aleksei A. “Iz istorii arkhiva Gosudarstvennogo muzeia izobrazitel'nykh iskusstv im. A.S. Pushkina.” In 40 let nauchnomu studencheskomu kruzhku istochnikovedeniia istorii SSSR: Sbornik nauchnykh studencheskikh statei, edited by S.E. Kniaz'kov, S.O. Shmidt, et al, pp. 5–11. Moscow: MGIAI, 1990. (Lib: MH).

A history of the organization of archival materials in the museum and a brief survey of the holdings.

h-421. *Aksenenko, M.B. “Novye postupleniia v Arkhiv GMII.” In Vystavka novykh postuplenii. 1981–1986: Katalog, pp. 212–213. 1989.

h-422. *Aksenenko, M.B.; and Demskaia, A.A. “Arkhiv: [Kratkii obzor novykh postuplenii].” In GMII im. A.S. Pushkina. Vystavka novykh postuplenii. 1970–1980: Katalog, pp. 191–192. Moscow, 1982.

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h-425. Levitin, E.S. “Otdel graviury i risunka.” Muzei, 1982, no. 3, pp. 54–65. (Lib: IU; MH).

Provides a general survey of the Division of Graphic Art, but without reference to the trophy collections acquired from Germany after World War II.

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h-428. *Aksenenko, Margarita Borisovna. “Dokumental'no-rukopisnyi fond khudozhestvennogo muzeia.” In 100 let Gosudarstvennomu muzeiu izobrazitel'nykh iskusstv imeni A.S. Pushkina: Iubileinyi al'bom, 1912–2012 1, edited by K. Iskol'dskaia and A. Tkachenko, pp. 502–15. Moscow: Izdatel'stvo “Gamma-Press”, 2012.

h-429. *Aksenenko, Margarita Borisovna. “Otdel rukopisei. Kollektsiia khudozhestvennoi fotografii; Muzeinoe sobranie. Naibolee znachitel'nye postupleniia v GMII im. A.S.Pushkina v 2005–2007 godakh. Rukopisi.” In Zhizn' muzeia. Godovoi otchet 2007. Gosudarstvennyi muzei izobrazitel'nykh iskusstv imeni A.S. Pushkina, pp. 11–12; 44. Moscow: GMII im. A.S. Pushkina, 2008.

h-430. Korostovtsev, Mikhail Aleksandrovich. Ieraticheskii papirus 127 iz sobraniia GMII im. A.S. Pushkina. Edited by V.V. Struve. Moscow: Izd-vo vostochnoi literatury, 1961. 71 p. [AN SSSR; INA; GMII im. A.S. Pushkina] (Lib: DDO; MH).

A scholarly description of the Egyptian hieratic manuscript from the collection of Vladimir Semenovich Golenishchev (1856–1947), together with a facsimile of the text and Russian translation.

h-431. Struve, Vasilii Vasil'evich (Struve, V.). Znachenie nekotorykh iz demoticheskikh papirusov Gosudarstvennogo muzeia izobrazitel'nykh iskusstv im. A.S. Pushkina dlia istorii i kul'tury Ptolemeevskogo Egipta/The Significance of Certain Demotic Papyri of the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin for the History and Culture of Ptolemaic Egypt. Moscow: Izd-vo AN SSSR, 1955. 56 p. (Lib: DLC; MH).

A paper presented at the Tenth International Congress of Historians in Rome. Surveys selected Egyptian papyri from the Golenishchev Collection.

h-432. Vydaiushchiisia russkii vostokoved V.S. Golenishchev i istoriia priobreteniia ego kollektsii v Muzee iziashchnykh iskusstv (1908–1912). Compiled by A.A. Demskaia, et al. Moscow: “Sovetskii khudozhnik”, 1987. 343 p. “Iz arkhiva GMII,” vol. 3. (Lib: DLC; MH).

Describes the collection brought together by the Russian Egyptologist Vladimir Semenovich Golenishchev (1856–1947), which was acquired by the museum in 1909. Includes a scholarly description and extracts of documents in the collection, related correspondence, and remembrances about Golenishchev.

h-433. The Literary Coptic Manuscripts in the A.S. Pushkin State Fine Arts Museum in Moscow. Edited by A.I. Elanskaia. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1994. vii, 527 p. “Philosophia Patrum, Texts and Studies of Early Christian Life and Language.” Supplement to the series “Vigiliae Christianae,” vol. 18. (Lib: DDO; DLC; IU; MH).

The introduction describes the history of the collection and indicates contiguous fragments found in other collections. Includes facsimiles of the original manuscripts, translations, and commentary.

h-434. Ernshtedt, Petr Viktorovich. Koptskie teksty Gosudarstvennogo muzeia izobrazitel'nykh iskusstv im. A.S. Pushkina. Edited by V.V. Struve. Leningrad: Izd-vo AN SSSR, 1959. 215 p. [AN SSSR, Otdelenie iazyka i literatury] (Lib: DDO; DLC; IU; MH).

A scholarly study of the Coptic collection.

h-435. Borisovskaia, Natal'ia. Starinnye gravirovannye karty i plany XV–XVII vv.: Kosmografii, karty zemnye i nebesnye, plany, veduty, batalii: [Al'bom]/Early Printed Maps and Plans 15th–18th Centuries: Cosmographies, Terrestrial and Celestial Maps, Plans, Vedutes, Battles. Moscow: Galaktika, 1992. 272 p. + plates. “Karty i plany iz sobraniia GMII.” (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

A beautifully illustrated album describing early engraved maps in the museum graphic collections, with indexes of artists, engravers, publishers, and authors. Includes an English summary.

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