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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-86Last update of repository: 17 March 2020Gosudarstvennyi tsentral'nyi teatral'nyi muzei im. A.A. Bakhrushina (GTsTM)Arkhivno-rukopisnyi otdel [Archive-Manuscript Division] Telephone: +7 495 951-71-11 Website: http://www.gctm.ru/collection/arhivno... (Rus); http://www.gctm.ru/en/collection/arch... (Eng) Opening hours: W 10:00–18:00 (additional hours by arrangement)Head: Mariia Valer'evna Chernova (tel. +7 495 951-71-11) Holdings Total: 625 fonds; ca. 200,000 units; 18th c.–to present The museum holds documents on the history of the dramatic and musical theater in Russia, the Soviet Union, and abroad. The Archival-Manuscript Division has some 400 fonds of personal papers of people who were prominent in the theater world—theater managers, directors, playwrights, theater critics, composers, actors, choreographers, theater historians, and collectors. To name only a few examples, there are separate fonds with papers of the playwrights A.P. Chekhov, A.S. Griboedov, and A.N. Ostrovskii; the theater director V.I. Nemirovich-Danchenko; the actors M.N. Ermolova, P.S. Mochalov, and M.S. Shchepkin; the opera singers F.I. Chaliapin (Shaliapin) and L.V. Sobinov; and the ballet masters A.A. Gorskii and K.Ia. Goleizovskii. These include original manuscripts of plays and articles, directors’ copies of scripts and promptbooks, texts for various roles with notes made by the actors who played them, rehearsal notifications, letters, memoirs, and diaries. There are also some personal papers of stage and costume designers, including Léon Bakst (pseud. of L.S. Rozenberg), Alexandre Benois (A.N. Benua), A.Ia. Golovin, Pietro di Gottardo Gonzaga, P.V. Vil'iams, and M.A. Vrubel' (although their actual sketches and stage designs are held in the separate Division of Theater Decoration). Prominent among the collections is the fond of the museum founder, A.A. Bakhrushin (1865–1929) and his son, the ballet historian, Iu.A. Bakhrushin. There are also a number of collections of theater-related documents, including some pertaining to the first actors F.G. and G.G. Volkov, who founded the Russian professional theater in the eighteenth century. Fonds of a more administrative nature include original documents from the records of the Office of Imperial Theaters (Kontora imperatorskikh teatrov), as well as documents originating from various state and private repertory companies in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and the provinces. There is also documentation from theater troupes and theater journals. Documentation from the postrevolutionary period reflects the development of the dramatic arts in the Soviet Union. The museum holds, for example, personal papers of important personages in the Soviet theater world, such as E.B. Vakhtangov, F.N. Kaverin, K.S. Stanislavskii, and A.Ia. Tairov (pseud. of Kornblit). The papers of V.E. Meyerhold (Meierkhol'd) include documentation about his theater and director’s copies of plays performed. The description of fond of the V.E. Meyerhold State theater (GosTIM, fond 688) available on the website: http://www.gctm.ru/collection/archive.... World War II is represented in the division by a collection of documents on the theaters and theater brigades that entertained the troops on various fronts. The museum has also collected and preserved the private papers of many contemporary theater figures in the postwar period. The museum has also established collections of materials on many individual theaters and also collections of memoirs and diaries, letters and autographs, literary autobiographies and professional questionnaires from many of the people in the theater world. Reference facilities: There are general alphabetic and subject catalogues, archival opisi of all fonds, a card catalogue covering the fonds, and a list of fonds. Copy facilities: Photographic and xerox copies can be prepared. |
