Metadata: Archives of the Museum of Count M. N. Muravyov
Collection
- Country:
- Lithuania
- Holding institution:
- Lithuanian State Historical Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Lietuvos valstybės istorijos archyvas
- Postal address:
- Mindaugo 8, 03107 Vilnius
- Phone number:
- +370 5 219 5320
- Email:
- istorijos.archyvas@lvia.lt
- Reference number:
- 439
- Title:
- Archives of the Museum of Count M. N. Muravyov
- Title (official language):
- Grafo M. N. Muravjovo muziejaus archyvas
- Creator/accumulator:
- Archives of the Museum of Count M. N. Muravyov
- Date(s):
- 1830/1915
- Language:
- Russian
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 301 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection consists of materials from the Count M N Muravyov Museum in Vilnius dating from between 1830 and 1915. The goal of the museum was to collect, in one place, various documents and objects on Count Mikhail Muravyov’s activities as the General-Governor of Vilnius including the suppression of the 1863 Polish uprising, in order to present him in a more positive light. The collection contains M N Muravyov’s correspondence, decrees of the Russian Senate, governors’ circulars, reports of local police officers, circulars of Count Muravyov and his reports on the political situation in the region following the Polish uprising of 1863, photos of the Polish rebels and of Russian officials, Polish press reviews and documents on the opening of the museum in 1901.
- Archival history:
- Until 1919 the collection was kept in the M.N. Muravyov Museum. established in 1901 to study the activities of Count Mikhail Muravyov, suppressor of the Polish uprising in 1863. After the outbreak of World War I, some of the materials were evacuated to the Rumiantsev Museum in Moscow, but many of the documents remained in Vilnius. In 1957 these materials were transferred to the Central State Historical Archives of the Lithuanian SSR (current Lithuanian State Historical Archives).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- In March 1898 A V Beletsky, assistant to the curator for Vilna’s educational district, submitted to the Governor-General of Vilna a proposal to create a museum for the commemoration of and in tribute to Count Mikhail Muravyov. The museum was opened in Vilnius in 1901 and was initially located in the Vilnius Public Library. After the occupation of Vilnius by German troops in 1915 the museum was transferred to the Vilnius Archaeological Commission for supervision.
- Access points: locations:
- Vilnius
- Access points: persons/families:
- Eidelman, Zelik
- Levanda, Lev
- Shteinberg, Yehoshua (Ovsei)
- Subject terms:
- Museums
- Photographs
- System of arrangement:
- The collection consists of one inventory that is arranged in thematic-chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Detailed inventories are available on the website of the Lithuanian Chief Archivist Service.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://eais-pub.archyvai.lt/eais/faces/pages/forms/search/F3001.jspx
- Yerusha Network member:
- Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
- Author of the description:
- Ilya Vovshin, Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, 2020