Library History Museum
The “Library History Museum” project is a series of articles about the people and books whose lives became part of the history of the Russian State Library. The stories are told by Olga Solomina, head specialist of the Library History Section.
The “Library History Museum” project is a series of articles about the people and books whose lives became part of the history of the Russian State Library.
The second story is about Russia's first museum of social movement, created at the library of the Moscow Public and Rumyantsev Museum. From the end of the 19th century until the early 1930s, new departments began to be established at the Moscow Public and Rumyantsev Museum (now the Russian State Library) – 'Literary Rooms', which later turned into independent literary museums.
The third story explores intersection of the fates of Moscow's first public library and Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy. For forty years, the writer was a reader of the first public museum with the first public library in Moscow — the Moscow Public and Rumyantsev Museum.
The fourth story focuses on the bibliographer, historian and book scholar Grigory Petrovich Georgievsky. Grigory Georgievsky worked at the Moscow Public and Rumyantsev Museum — later the V. I. Lenin Library — for 58 years, from 1890 to 1948.
The fifth story reveals the archives of Alexander Pushkin on the day of remembrance of the great poet. The Moscow Public and Rumyantsev Museum, where his archive was kept for a long time, were closely associated with the name of Alexander Pushkin. The archive was created in two directions — identifying the poet's documents in the archives and collections of his contemporaries, friends and relatives, and transferring to the museum the archive that had been kept in the Pushkin family.
The sixth story is about Pyotr Ivanovich Sevastyanov, an archaeologist and collector of Christian antiquities, whose valuable collection became part of the Russian State Library's holdings. From the series “160 Years for the Good Enlightenment”.
The seventh story tells of the move of the Rumyantsev Museum's collections from Saint Petersburg to Moscow, based on documents from the Library's archive and the Manuscript Department of the Russian State Library. From the series “160 Years for the Good Enlightenment”.
The eighth story tells of Alexander Pushkin's manuscripts and the life of the great poet's grandson. From the series of articles “160 Years for the Good Enlightenment”. Every year on 6 June, Russia celebrates the birthday of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin. The Russian State Library was the first state repository of the great Russian poet's archive.