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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-97Last update of repository: 17 March 2020Gosudarstvennyi memorial'nyi muzykal'nyi muzei-zapovednik P.I. Chaikovskogo (Klin, Moscow Oblast) (Muzei-zapovednik P.I. Chaikovskogo)Previous names
The museum was founded in 1894 in the house where the Russian composer Petr Il'ich Tchaikovsky (Chaikovskii) (1840–1893) lived from 1885. Immediately after the death of the composer, the house was purchased from its owner and later, in 1916, was bequeathed by the composer’s brother, Modest Il'ich Tchaikovsky, to the Russian Music Society (Russkoe muzykal'noe obshchestvo), which undertook to preserve it as a museum. In August 1921 the museum was nationalized. A decade later, in 1931, it was transferred to the jurisdiction of the Bol'shoi Theater, and then after 1937 it was under the administration of the All-Union Committee on Art. In 1941 the house was in the Nazi zone of occupation and was badly damaged, although many of the materials were evacuated to Udmurtia (Votkinsk). The museum holdings were returned to Klin in 1944. |
