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The building of the country's largest library, directly opposite the entrance to the Kremlin, was built as a result of a large architectural competition. It was the heyday of avant-garde architecture, but far from the most daring project was preferred. A long construction period led to a change in the originally conceived strict appearance in a more decorative manner. Academician Shchuko from St. Petersburg, of pre-revolutionary academic training, together with the architect of the younger generation Gelfreich, developed a complex complex of six buildings, forming a system of courtyards, colonnades and forming a kind of new Roman forum for the proletarian capital. The building was designed at the corner of two projected avenues - Ilyich Alley - the planned route from the Palace of Soviets to the Three Stations and the then nameless Kalinin Avenue. But academic training did not allow the architects to create a new dominant near the Kremlin, and the tallest building, a nineteen-story book depository, was moved as far as possible from the crossroads. The library complex organically incorporates the principles and techniques of architecture from different eras - these are the Roman forums, the asymmetric plans of the constructivists, and the discreet stylized decor (mostly also borrowed from Ancient Rome). The cult of study and knowledge was almost universal and was eclipsed only by the cult of workers and Red Army soldiers, the building was decorated with a two-row sculptural frieze, reminiscent of the second famous work of architects - the theater in Rostov-on-Don, individual statues on the balustrade overlooking Mokhovaya, as well as medallions with portraits of great scientists and writers, starting with Archimedes. A large group worked on the creation of sculptural decoration, including such sculptors as S.A. Evseev, M.G. Manizer, E.A. Yanson-Manizer, N.V. Krandievskaya, V.V. Lishev,.

The construction of the complex of buildings of the Russian State Library (until 1992 - the State Library named after V.I. Lenin) began in 1929 and was completed in the late 1950s. The first phase of the construction of the metro affected the stylobate of the building, the vestibule of the Lenin Library and Aleksandrovsky Sad stations was built into it. The ground pavilion, installed in 1935 at the corner of Mokhovaya and Vozdvizhenka, was later demolished.

Reading room No. 3 (Humanities) for 464 seats was opened in 1958. The architects of the workshop V.G. Gelfreich embodied the idea of a monumental representativeness of the “temple of science”, having solved a two-height space (area - 1208 sq. m; ceiling height - more than 10 m) in the style of the main hall-palazzo. During the 35 years of operation of the hall, which have passed since the restoration in 1978, the integrity of the historical architectural and decorative elements of the interior has been violated.

During the large-scale scientific restoration of 2012–2018. in reading room No. 3, a gallery made of veneer and solid oak, stairs, doors, portals, furniture, decoration elements were restored; artistic parquet; three-tiered brass chandeliers; picturesque panel "Friendship of peoples"; 16 plaster busts of famous public and cultural figures; bronze sculpture of V.I. Lenin.

In 2018, Reading Room No. 3 became a laureate of the Moscow Government competition "Moscow Restoration" in the nomination "high quality of repair and restoration work".

The official history of one of the largest national libraries in the world began in the middle of the 19th century and is closely connected with the name of Count Nikolai Petrovich Rumyantsev (1754-1826), diplomat, chancellor, chairman of the State Council and founder of the remarkable private museum he created in St. who had the goal of serving the Fatherland "for good enlightenment."

Count Nikolai Petrovich Rumyantsev dreamed of a museum that tells about the history, art, identity and nature of Russia. He collected historical books and manuscripts, compiled chronicles of ancient Russian cities, published monuments of ancient Russian literature, studied the customs and rituals of the peoples of Russia. After his death, Nikolai Petrovich's brother, Sergei Petrovich Rumyantsev, donated a huge library (more than 28 thousand volumes), manuscripts, collections and a small collection of paintings to the state - "for the benefit of the Fatherland and good education." The collections of Count Rumyantsev formed the basis of the collection of the Rumyantsev Museum, established on March 22, 1828 by personal decree of Nicholas I.

On November 23, 1831, the Museum, located in the Rumyantsev mansion on the English Embankment in St. Petersburg, opened to visitors. The position read:

“Every Monday from 10 o'clock in the morning until 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the Museum is open for all readers to inspect it. On other days, except Sundays and holidays, those visitors who intend to engage in reading and extracts are allowed ... ".

Alexander Khristoforovich Vostokov (1781-1864), a poet, paleographer, and archeographer, was appointed senior librarian of the Museum.

In 1845 the Rumyantsev Museum became part of the Imperial Public Library. Prince Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoevsky (1804-1869), writer, musicologist, philosopher, assistant director of the Imperial Public Library, became the curator of the museum.

By 1853, the Rumyantsev Museum kept 966 manuscripts, 598 maps and drawing books (atlases), 32,345 volumes of printed publications. His jewels were studied by 722 readers who ordered 1,094 items. 256 visitors visited the exposition halls.

Moving to Moscow

The condition of the Rumyantsev Museum left much to be desired, the collections were hardly replenished, and the director of the Imperial Public Library, Modest Andreyevich Korf, instructed Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoevsky to prepare a note on the possibility of transferring the Museum to Moscow in the hope that his collections would be more in demand there. A note about the plight of the Rumyantsev Museum, sent to the Minister of the State Court, fell into the hands of the then Trustee of the Moscow Educational District, General Nikolai Vasilievich Isakov, who set it in motion.

On May 23, 1861, the Committee of Ministers adopted a resolution on the transfer of the Rumyantsev Museum to Moscow. In the same year, together with the transportation of collections to Moscow, the acquisition and systematization of the Museum's funds began. In whole boxes, equipped with registers and index cards, a lot of Russian, foreign and early printed books from the duplicates of the Imperial Public Library in St. Petersburg were sent to the library being formed in Moscow.

One of the most famous buildings in Moscow, the Pashkov House on Vagankovsky Hill, was allocated to house the collections. The collections of the Moscow Public Museum and the Rumyantsev Museum united in a spacious building.

Emperor Alexander II on June 19, 1862 approved the "Regulations on the Moscow Public Museum and the Rumyantsev Museum". The “Regulations...” became the first legal document that determined the management, structure, directions of activity, the entry into the Library of Museums of a legal deposit, the staffing of a public Museum created for the first time in Moscow with a public library that was part of this Museum. In 1869, the Emperor approved the first and until 1917 the only Charter of the Moscow Public and Rumyantsev Museums. Nikolai Vasilyevich Isakov became the first director of the united museum.

The Moscow Public and Rumyantsev Museums included, in addition to the Library, departments of manuscripts, rare books, Christian and Russian antiquities, departments of fine arts, ethnographic, numismatic, archaeological, and mineralogical departments.

Replenishment of the museum funds

Moscow Governor-General Pavel Alekseevich Tuchkov and Nikolai Vasilyevich Isakov called on all Muscovites to participate in the replenishment and development of the newly created "Museum of Sciences and Arts". As a result, the fund of the Moscow Public and Rumyantsev Museums included more than 300 book and manuscript collections and individual priceless gifts.

Gifts and donations have become the most important source of fund replenishment. No wonder they wrote that the Museum was created by private donations and public initiative. A year and a half after the founding of the Museums, the Library's fund already amounted to 100,000 items. And on January 1, 1917, the Library of the Rumyantsev Museum already had 1,200 thousand items.

One of the main donors was Emperor Alexander II. From him came many books and a large collection of engravings from the Hermitage, more than two hundred paintings and other rarities. The largest gift was the famous painting by the artist Alexander Andreevich Ivanov "The Appearance of the Messiah" and sketches for it, purchased from the heirs especially for the Rumyantsev Museum.

In the "Regulations on the Moscow Public Museum and the Rumyantsev Museum" it was written that the director is obliged to "supervise" that all literature published on the territory of the state gets into the Library of Museums. And since 1862, the Library began to receive a mandatory copy. Until 1917, 80 percent of the fund was legal deposit receipts.

Imperial Moscow and Rumyantsev Museum

In 1913, the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty was celebrated. The celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Moscow Public and Rumyantsev Museums was timed to the same time. The role of the imperial family as patrons of the Museums can hardly be overestimated. Since 1913, the Moscow Public and Rumyantsev Museums, in accordance with the highest decision, became known as the Imperial Moscow and Rumyantsev Museum.

Since that time, the library for the first time began to receive not only gifts and obligatory copies of publications, but also money for the formation of funds. There was an opportunity to build a new book depository. In 1915, a new art gallery was opened with the Ivanovsky Hall, named after the artist who created the most valuable painting in the museum's collection. The gallery was arranged in such a way that visitors could take in the “Appearance of the Messiah” - a painting measuring 540 × 750 cm.

State Rumyantsev Museum

By 1917, the collection of the library of museums consisted of 1,200,000 items.

From the first days of the February Revolution in many cultural institutions, the process of democratization of leadership structures and relationships between leading and ordinary employees began. In March 1917, the Rumyantsev Museum changed the previous system, in which the director was the head of the institution. At the meeting of the Council of the Museum, a new democratic order is approved, and the decision-making power passes from the director to the Council.

The last director in the history of the Imperial Museum and the first Soviet director of the State Rumyantsev Museum was Prince Vasily Dmitrievich Golitsyn (1857-1926). An artist, military, public, museum figure, Vasily Dmitrievich assumed the position of director on July 19, 1910. It was on his shoulders that the main burden fell: to save the funds.

The employees of the museum and the library managed not only to preserve the valuables, but also to save private collections from destruction. The fund includes collections of businessman Lev Konstantinovich Zubalov, merchant Yegor Yegorovich Yegorov and many others. From 1917 to 1922, during the mass nationalization of private collections, including book collections, the library stock received more than 500,000 books from 96 private libraries. Among them are the collections of Counts Sheremetevs (4 thousand copies), Count Dmitry Nikolaevich Mavros (25 thousand copies), the famous antiquarian book dealer Pavel Petrovich Shibanov (more than 190 thousand), libraries of the princes Baryatinsky, the noble family of Korsakov, counts Orlov-Davydov, Vorontsov-Dashkov and others. Due to the transferred, abandoned and nationalized collections, the museum's funds have grown from 1 million 200 thousand items to 4 million.

In 1918, an interlibrary loan and a reference and bibliographic bureau were organized in the library of the State Rumyantsev Museum. In 1921 the Library became a state book depository.

The receipt by the Library since 1922 of two obligatory copies of all printed publications on the territory of the state made it possible, among other things, to promptly provide thousands of readers with not only literature in the languages of the peoples of the USSR, but also its translations into Russian.

State Library of the USSR named after V. I. Lenin

In the early 1920s, all non-book collections - paintings, drawings, numismatics, porcelain, minerals, and so on - began to be transferred to other museums. They became part of the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, the State Historical Museum and many others. In July 1925, the Central Executive Committee of the USSR adopted a resolution on the liquidation of the Rumyantsev Museum, on the basis of the library of which the State Library of the USSR named after V. I. Lenin was created.

In the 1920s-1930s, the State Library of the USSR named after V.I. Lenin is a leading scientific institution. First of all, it is the largest information base of science. On May 3, 1932, by the Decree of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR, the Library was included in the number of research institutions of republican significance.

The library stands at the head of one of the important branches of science - library science. Since 1922, it has included the Cabinet, and since 1924 the Institute of Library Science. One of his tasks was the training of personnel. Two-year, nine-month, six-month courses for librarians were organized, postgraduate studies were opened (since 1930). In 1930, the first library university was created here, which in 1934 separated from the Lenin Library and became independent.

"Leninka" in the days of the war

By the beginning of 1941, the fund of the Lenin Library numbered more than 9 million copies. 6 reading rooms of the Lenin Library served thousands of readers every day. 1,200 employees provided all areas of the Library's activities. The move to a new building, designed by Academician Vladimir Alekseevich Shchuko, has begun, designed for 20 million storage units.

During the Great Patriotic War, the Library continued its work: acquisition and storage of funds.

Return of the re-evacuated funds (layers) to the Library and moving books to the 18-tiered book depository by manual conveyor (right), 1944.

In the first two war years, more than 1,000 books and 20% of the periodicals that were not received from the Book Chamber in the order of legal deposit were purchased. The leadership of the Library achieved the transfer to it of newspapers, magazines, brochures, posters, leaflets, slogans and other publications issued by the Military Publishing House, political departments of the fronts and armies. The library of the antiquarian Pavel Petrovich Shibanov (more than five thousand volumes), the collection of books by Nikolai Ivanovich Birukov containing bibliographic rarities, Russian folk song books, books on the history of medicine, on the history of theater in Russia and many others became a valuable acquisition.

In 1942 the Library had book exchange relations with 16 countries, with 189 organizations. Since 1944, the issue of transferring candidate and doctoral dissertations to the Library was resolved.

Service to readers did not stop for a day. And in 1942, the Children's Reading Room was opened.

Traveling exhibitions were organized in the interests of readers, the service of readers by interlibrary loan continued, books were sent as gifts to the front, to hospital libraries.

The library carried out intensive scientific work: scientific conferences, sessions were held, monographs were written, dissertations were defended, postgraduate studies were restored, and work begun in the pre-war years on the creation of the Library and Bibliographic Classification continued. The Academic Council gathered, which included famous scientists, including 5 academicians and corresponding members of the Academy of Sciences, writers, cultural figures, leading experts in the field of library and book business.

For outstanding services in collecting and storing book collections and serving the broad masses of the population with books (in connection with the 20th anniversary of the transformation of the Library of the Rumyantsev Museum into the State Library of the USSR named after V.I. Lenin) on March 29, 1945, the Library was awarded the Order of Lenin (the only libraries).

State Library named after Lenin: restoration and development

In the post-war years, the Library faced serious challenges: the development of a new building, its technical equipment (conveyor, electric train, belt conveyor, etc.), organization of new forms of document storage and service (microfilming, photocopying), functional activities - acquisition, processing, organization and storage of funds, formation of a reference and search apparatus. Particular attention is paid to customer service.

On April 18, 1946, the first reader's conference in the Library's history took place in the conference hall.

In 1947, a 50-meter vertical conveyor for transporting books was put into operation, an electric train and a belt conveyor were launched to deliver requirements from the reading rooms to the book depository.

In 1947, work began on serving readers with photocopies.

In 1947, a small room was organized for reading microfilms, equipped with two Soviet and one American apparatus.

In 1955, the Library resumed its international lending.

In 1957-1958, reading rooms No. 1, 2, 3, 4 were opened in new premises.

In 1959-1960, a system of sectoral reading rooms was formed, and the auxiliary funds of scientific rooms were transferred to an open access system.

In the mid-1960s, the Library operated 22 reading rooms with 2,330 seats.

The status of the Library as a national book depository is being strengthened. Since 1960, Leninka ceased to serve children and adolescents: specialized libraries for children and youth appeared. At the beginning of 1960, the reading room of the music and music department was opened. In 1962, it became possible to listen to sound recordings in it, in 1969 a room with a piano for playing musical works appeared.

In October 1970, the dissertation hall opened. Since 1978, a permanent exhibition of doctoral dissertation abstracts has been organized here in the pre-defense period.

1970s - the leading direction of the information activity of the Library was the service of the governing bodies of the state. In 1971-1972, in the reference and bibliographic department, an experimental introduction of a system of selective dissemination of information (IRI) was carried out. In 1974, the Lenin State Library established a new procedure for enrolling in reading rooms, limiting the flow of readers. Now only a researcher or a specialist with a higher education can sign up for the library.

In 1983, the permanent exhibition of the Book Museum was opened.

Since 1987, the maintenance department has been experimenting with temporary registration without restrictions for everyone who wants to visit the Library in the summer. And in 1990, the relationship-petitions from the place of work, presented when registering in the Library, were canceled, the enrollment of students was expanded.

In connection with the solution of new tasks for the organization and storage of funds, including on new media, servicing readers, scientific, methodological, research problems, the number of departments increased by almost one and a half times (music and music departments, technological departments, departments of cartography, art publications were created). , exhibition work, Russian literature abroad, dissertations hall, research department of library and bibliographic classifications, library museum and other departments).

Russian State Library

Changes in the country could not but affect the main library of the country. In 1992, the V. I. Lenin State Library of the USSR was transformed into the Russian State Library. However, most readers continue to call her "Lenin".

Since 1993, after a 20-year break, the Library's reading rooms are again available to all citizens from the age of 18. And since 2016, anyone who is already 14 years old can get a library card.

In 1998, the Legal Information Center was opened at the RSL.

In 2000, the National Program for the Preservation of Library Collections in Russia was adopted. Within its framework, a special subprogram "Book Monuments of the Russian Federation" is being implemented. The functions of the Federal Research, Scientific Methodological and Coordinating Center for work with book monuments were assigned to the Russian State Library.

By the end of 2016, the RSL funds amounted to about 47 million units. There are 36 reading rooms for visitors. Every minute the doors of the Library are opened by five visitors. Approximately one hundred thousand new users are added per year.

In December 2016, a new Ivanovsky Hall was opened on the foundation of the picture gallery of the Rumyantsev Museum, which became the main exhibition area of the Russian State Library.

From January 1, 2017, the Russian State Library began to receive legal copies of all printed publications published in our country in electronic form. A system for receiving, processing, storing and accounting for mandatory electronic copies has been created on the RSL portal.

The annual public report shows in detail how the Russian State Library is developing.

Registration in the library is free. You can register from the age of 14 (with a passport).
You can take pictures with non-professional equipment. There is wi-fi

Entrance No. 1: marble staircase, rotunda, reading rooms No. 1 and No. 2, reading room of the department of official and normative documents, 3rd floor of the library administration, including a corridor and a hall, a meeting room, a reading room of the GSK (general systematic catalog), an exhibition corridor ("Pink Hall"), dining room.

Entrance No. 3: conference hall, corridor near the conference hall, exhibition hall ("Blue Hall").

Pashkov House: Reading Room of the Department of Cartographic Publications (KGR)

Lots of numbers

To store 41,315,500 copies, premises are used that are equal in area to 9 football fields.

There are 29,830 items in storage for every librarian.

You will have to spend 79 years of life without sleep and rest on a cursory, minute review of each of the storage copies.

It will take 25 trucks to transport the library's computer park.

A unique collection in 367 languages of the world.

At the same time, passengers of 4 trains can work in the library's reading rooms and computerized places.

About 200 new readers sign up here every day.

Nearly 4,000 people come every day.

Russian State Library

There are specialized collections of maps, notes, sound recordings, rare books, dissertations, newspapers and other types of publications.

The library collections have been used by a variety of people for 140 years. Among them: world-famous scientists and students, practitioners and thinkers, our compatriots and foreigners.

The Russian State Library reveals its richest collections through a system of catalogs and file cabinets. An electronic catalog with free online access has been created and is constantly updated. In addition, the RSL prepares consolidated catalogs of Russian books, publishes fundamental scientific and auxiliary bibliographic manuals.

The Russian State Library is the largest public library in Russia and continental Europe. Existed as part of the Rumyantsev Museum since 1882. Since 1924 - the Russian Public Library named after V. I. Ulyanov (Lenin). In 1925 it was transformed into State Library of the USSR named after V. I. Lenin (GBL), in 1992 - to the Russian State Library.

How to purchase a subscription and library card

They enroll in the Russian State Library of Russian and Foreign Citizens upon reaching the age of 14, in the main building (on Vozdvizhenka), in the branch in Khimki, the Jewish Museum and the Tolerance Center. Documents - a passport, for foreigners - a passport and a visa, for citizens with an academic degree - a passport and a diploma. A plastic library card (free of charge) with a photo is issued. If a ticket is lost, a duplicate costs 100 rubles.

A subscription is issued in the presence of a library card, in the information desk for the desired number of orders (10 orders - 100 rubles). This makes it possible to order books in advance by phone, giving the title, author, publication data.

How to work with Leninka funds

Use the electronic catalog (or paper in the library building), find the necessary publications by searching, print or write down the code, title, author of the book.
Come to the library with a library card, fill out a questionnaire at the entrance. In the required sheets, enter the data of the publications with which you want to work. Give the required sheet to the library staff. After 2-3 hours (the maximum waiting time) you will receive the publications upon presentation of the questionnaire filled out at the entrance and the library card. The waiting time depends on the number of orders for a certain storage tier, it is better to place an order in advance - by phone (if you have a subscription) or via the Internet. Editions that are in the reading room, and not in the repository, are available for work without order.
Work with books within the walls of the library without issuing at home. In case of dilapidation or lack of paper versions of the publication, microfilms are issued.
When handing over books on the questionnaire, which must be handed in when leaving the library, a corresponding mark is placed.

Funds

Readers have access to the central main fund (universal collection of continuing publications, books, magazines, documents for official use in Russian, foreign languages except Oriental, languages of the peoples of Russia), the central auxiliary fund (duplicates of publications), collections of maps, sound recordings, rare books, manuscripts and other publications.

Services

Copying (for a fee) from a paper source and microfilm - scanning, transferring to paper, transferring to film.
Free Wi-Fi for regular readers.
Virtual Help Desk (free).
Excursions to all buildings and funds, visiting the Museum of the book (for a fee).
Individual user account (for a fee) - for personal and group work (up to 4 people). PC with Internet access, Skype, office and voice programs.
Dining room.

General reference books Published

Libraries: A Guide (1996), pp. 19–26; Lit. archives (1996), pp. 20–21; GAF Handbook (1991), pp. 8–14; Handbook (1983), pp. 118–138 and 381–386; PKG M&L (1972), pp. 263–274; app. (1976) pp. 87–100.
For a more detailed description and bibliography of the literature on the Rare Books Department, see Funds ed. ed. (1991), pp. 10–20.
Research Department of Manuscripts (OR)
The first volume of the guide to the documents of the Department of Manuscripts of the RSL is being prepared for publication.

Reviews
Safronova G. F. Funds and activities of the Department of Manuscripts of the State Library of the USSR. V. I. Lenin: Bibliography. 1836-1962 // Notes of the Department of Manuscripts [GBL]. 1962. T. 25. S. 487-520. (Bib: DLC; IU; MH)

Bibliographic review of reference and other literature about the Department of Manuscripts. The content of each issue of the Notes of the Department of Manuscripts from 1938 to 1961 is analyzed. It is supplied with an alphabetical index for collections (pp. 513-515) and for archival funds (pp. 515-519), which indicate the numbers of the funds and provide bibliographic information about publications for each fund separately. The information in this review is partly out of date.

Dovgallo G. I. Reference apparatus of the Department of Manuscripts// Notes of the Department of Manuscripts [GBL]. 1962. T. 25. S. 464-486. (Bib: DLC; IU; MH)

Brief index of the archival collections of the Department of Manuscripts/ Comp. E. N. Konshina, N. K. Shvabe. Ed. P. A. Zaionchkovsky, E. N. Konshina. M.: GBL, 1948. 253 p. (Bib: DLC; IU; MH)

The index includes information about the funds received by the Department of Manuscripts before 1945. The information is given alphabetically by the founders. Since the index was based on the old system of alphabetic cataloging, there is no data on the numbers of collections that are currently used.

Memories and Diaries of the 18th-20th Centuries: Index of Manuscripts/ Ed. S. V. Zhitomirskaya. M.: Book, 1976. 621 p. (Bib: DLC; IU; MH)

The reference book covers memoir sources of the 18th-20th centuries, including the Soviet era. There is a system of auxiliary indicators. See also . A new index of manuscripts that were not included in previous editions is being prepared for publication.

Index of memoirs, diaries and travel notes of the 18th-19th centuries: (From the funds of the Department of Manuscripts)/ Comp. S. V. Zhitomirskaya, and others. Ed. P. A. Zaionchkovsky, E. N. Konshina. M.: GBL, 1951. 224 p. (Bib: DLC; IU; MH)

Zhitomirskaya S. V. The Western Middle Ages in the Manuscripts of the State Library of the USSR. V. I. Lenin// Middle Ages. 1957. T. 10. S. 285-305. (Bib: DLC; IU; MH)
Slavic-Russian manuscript collections
Manuscript collections of the State Library of the USSR. V. I. Lenin: Index/ Ed. L. V. Tiganova, N. B. Tikhomirov, Yu. D. Rykov et al. M., 1983-. [GBL] (Bib: DLC; IU; MH)
Volume 1. Issue. 1: (1862-1917). 1983. 254 p. Issue. 2: (1917-1947). 1986. 381 p. Issue. 3: (1948-1979). 1996. 511 p.

The first issue contains brief information about the collections of Slavic-Russian handwritten books received by the Moscow Public and Rumyantsev Museum, and then by the Department of Manuscripts of the Library from 1862 to 1979. The second issue of the first volume includes historical information about the collections of handwritten books that were deposited in the library in 1917-1947, and the third one contains the collections received from 1948 to 1979. The references have four sections and contain information on the history of founders and collections, as well as a bibliography of reviews and descriptions, and a general brief description of the collections in their current composition. It is planned to release three more volumes of the index with auxiliary and reference apparatus for the first volume.

Library serials
Notes of the Department of Manuscripts [GBL] (Records of the OR). 50 vols. M., 1938-1995. Comes out irregularly. [GBL] (Bib: DLC; IU; MH)

Each volume contains reviews of individual holdings or collections of manuscripts, articles on the activities of the Manuscripts Department, and publications of documents. An analysis of the content of volumes published before 1962 can be found in.

Proceedings of the Public Library of the USSR. V. I. Lenin. 4 vols. M., 1928-1939. [GBL] (Bib: DLC; IU; MH)
Index: Articles about the Department of Manuscripts appearing in this series are described in .

Tentative Handlist of the Baron Guenzburg Collection of Manuscripts in the Russian State Library in Moscow. Typescript. (Bib: MH)
Archival materials

For documents on the history of the Jews in the funds of the RSL, see Doc. ist. Jews (1997), pp. 383-392.

Volkova E. P. Materials on the history of Russian drama and musical theater in the department of manuscripts of the State Library of the USSR named after V. I. Lenin (XVII centuries-1930s) // Theater and Music: Documents and Materials / Ed. I. Petrovskaya et al. M.; L., 1963. S. 72-90. (Bib: IU)

Catalog of Masonic Manuscripts of the Moscow Public and Rumyantsev Museums/ Comp. I. D. Berdnikov. M.: Printing by A. I. Snegireva, 1900. 51 p.
Originally published as an appendix to the Report of the Moscow Public and Rumyantsev Museums for 1899. M., 1990. .

List of 433 scattered manuscripts of the late XVIII-early. 19th century from the collection of the Rumyantsev Museum on the history of Russian Masons. There are name and subject indexes.

Funds of personal origin

This subsection provides information only on stand-alone publications prior to 1976 and available on microfiche through IDC. Part of the reviews and catalogs published in the form of articles was included in the book. PKG M&L (1972), pp. 270-274 and many other bibliographic references, including the collections of the Notes of the GBL OR. The recently declassified funds of the personal origin of the figures of the Russian emigration are described in Rus. Abroad (1998), pp. 332-339.

Manuscripts and correspondence of V. G. Belinsky: Catalog/ Comp. R. P. Matorina. Ed. N. L. Brodsky. M.: GBL, 1948. 42 p. (Beeb: DLC; MH)

Manuscripts of A.P. Chekhov: Description/ Comp. E. E. Leitnekker. M.: State. socio-economic publishing house, 1938. 124 p. (Beeb: DLC; MH)

Archive of A.P. Chekhov: Annotated description of letters to A.P. Chekhov/ Comp. E. E. Leitnekker. Ed. N. L. Meshcheryakova. 2 vols. M.; L., 1939-1941. (Beeb: DLC; MH)
T. 1: M.: State. socio-economic publishing house, 1939. 115 p.
T. 2: L.: Ogiz, Gospolitizdat, 1941. 95 p.

Manuscripts of N. V. Gogol: Catalog/ Comp. A. A. Romodanovskaya, G. P. Georgievsky. M.: Sotsekgiz, 1940. 127 p. (Beeb: DLC; MH)

Description of the manuscripts of A. I. Herzen/ Comp. A. V. Askaryants, Z. V. Kemenova. Ed. B. P. Kozmin. 2nd ed. M.: GBL, 1950. 159 p. (Beeb: DLC)

On the fate of the manuscripts of the famous Russian publicist and philosopher Alexander Ivanovich Herzen (1812-1870), which ended up abroad, see also the article by S. V. Zhitomirskaya “The Fate of the Herzen and Ogarev Archive” (Literary Heritage, 1985, Vol. 96). A part of Herzen's archive received by the RSL after the Second World War from Prague (RZIA) and Sofia is described in the article by Putintsev V.A. and Lanskoy L.R. legacy, 1956, vol. 63).

Description of manuscripts VG Korolenko. Moscow: GBL, 1950-1961. [GBL] (Bib: DLC; MH)
[T. 1]: Artistic works, literary-critical articles, historical and ethnographic works, notebooks, materials for works / Comp. R. P. Matorina. M., 1950. 223 p.
T. 2: Description of the letters of V. G. Korolenko / Comp. V. M. Fedorova. Ed. S. V. Zhitomirskaya. M., 1961. 659 p. .

Manuscripts by N. A. Nekrasov: Catalog/ Comp. R. P. Matorina. M.: Socio-economic publishing house, 1939. 79 p. (Beeb: DLC; MH)

Description of the manuscripts of N. P. Ogarev/ Comp. A. V. Askaryants. Ed. Ya. Z. Chernyak. M.: GBL, 1952. 206 p. (Beeb: DLC; MH)

On the fate of the manuscripts of Nikolai Platonovich Ogarev (1813-1877) that ended up abroad, see also the article by S. V. Zhitomirskaya “The Fate of the Herzen and Ogarev Archive” (Literary Heritage, 1985, Vol. 96).

Manuscripts of A. N. Ostrovsky: Catalog/ Comp. N. P. Kashin. M.: State. socio-economic publishing house, 1939. 51 p. (Beeb: DLC; MH)

Collections of D. V. Razumovsky and V. F. Odoevsky. Archive of A. V. Razumovsky: Descriptions/ Ed. I. M. Kudryavtsev. M.: GBL, 1960. 261 p. (Beeb: DLC; MH)

Handwritten materials collected by several famous musicologists of the 19th century are described. and received by the Rumyantsev Museum (now f. 380).

Matorina R. P. Description of autographs by I. S. Turgenev// I. S. Turgenev: Collection / Ed. N. L. Brodsky. M., 1940. S. 171-219. (Bib: MH)
Research Department of Rare Books (Book Museum)
Autographs of poets of the Silver Age: Dedicatory inscriptions on books/ Comp. T. V. Avetisova, E. A. Barysheva, I. V. Gabova, and others. Ed. E. I. Yatsunok, Z. A. Pokrovskaya, L. A. Morsina. Moscow: Book, 1995. 496 p. [RSL] (Bib: IU; MH)

397 autographs of twenty poets of the Silver Age have been reproduced.

Department of Fine Arts (IZO)
Onopko-Baburina N.I. Russian and Soviet art bookselling poster: (According to the materials of the collection of the State Library of the USSR named after V.I. Lenin) // Book: Research and Materials. M., 1960. S. 49-92. (Bib: DLC; IU; MH)

Engravings from the collection of A. S. Petrovsky: Catalog/ Comp. E. I. Kuzishchina. Ed. A. A. Sidorov. M., 1980. 116 p. [GBL; Dep. rare books]

Scientific description of the collection of old and new engravings by A. S. Petrovsky, received by the Rare Book Department in 1968 (2,271 sheets). The main part of the collection consists of foreign engravings of various national schools from the 15th to the 20th centuries.

Onopko N. I. Soviet film poster of the twenties// Notes of the Department of Manuscripts [GBL]. 1958. V. 2. S. 252-280. (Bib: DLC; IU; MH)
Special trophy collection
Dolgodrova T., Borodin O. Collection of the German Museum of Books and Fonts in the Collection of the Russian State Library // Our Heritage. 1994. No. 32. S. 97-106. (Bib: DLC; IU; MH)

The first publication about the collection c. 600 manuscripts, incunabula, early printed books from the Leipzig Museum of Books and Printing, which was brought to Moscow from Germany in 1945-1947. Of particular interest is the illuminated Gutenberg Bible from 1452-1456. on parchment. The library is currently compiling a complete catalog of the Leipzig collection and other material from Germany.