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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-71Last update of repository: 17 March 2020Gosudarstvennyi muzei—kul'turnyi tsentr “Integratsiia” im. N.A. Ostrovskogo (GM—GTsPO)Holdings Total: 3 fonds, 9 collections, 14,733 units, early 20th c.–to present motion pictures—22 (1928–1990s); graphic materials—230 units; photographs—3,837 (1905–1990s); sound recordings—196 units (1935–1986) The museum contains documents relating to Ostrovskii (1904–1936), his family and co-workers. The major part of the holdings consists of the Ostrovskii Memorial Fond (Memorial'nyi fond N.A. Ostrovskogo) (1,300 units), which contains the writer's personal papers and those of his wife, brothers, sisters and nephews. These papers include their correspondence with such well-known Soviet and foreign writers as Mate Zalka, A.A. Karavaeva, M.E. Kol'tsov, Romain Rolland, L.N. Seifullina, A.S. Serafimovich, A.A. Fadeev, and M.A. Sholokhov. The museum has also acquired the personal papers of a number of people who knew Ostrovskii. These include memoirs and recollections about him, letters and photographs. There are a number of collections of documents on the Civil War and the Second World War with the personal papers of those who took part in these events, and with photographs, letters, leaflets, and appeals. The museum has several thematic collections including that of the museum's epithet “Overcoming,” containing documents about people whose lives were similar to that of Pavel Korchagin, the hero of Ostrovskii's most famous novel, How the Steel was Tempered (Kak zakalialas' stal'). The thematic collection entitled “Ostrovskii and Art” contains material on the theater productions and screening of his novel. There is also a thematic collection entitled “The Korchagin Movement in Production Collectives and Educational Institutions” (Korchaginskoe dvizhenie v proizvodstvennykh kollektivakh i uchebnykh zavedeniiakh), which includes documents on propaganda and educational work in factories, building sites, and collective and state farms. Each collection includes both manuscripts and documentary photographs. The museum has collected graphic work devoted to Ostrovskii together with illustrations by Soviet and foreign artists for his novels and works by handicapped artists (http://tverskaya14.ru/fond/graph/). There are also documentary films about Ostrovskii and the Korchagin Movement, and the screenplay for the film “How the Steel was Tempered” (1935). The sound recordings archive contains recordings of Ostrovskii's speeches, recollections by relatives and close friends,and productions thematically connected with his novels. The Scientific Archive (Nauchnyi arkhiv) contains the administrative (including financial) records of the museum and reflect the academic and educational activities of its staff. Thereare photographs of special events held in the museum. |
