Metadata: M. B. Vakser
Collection
- Country:
- Russia
- Holding institution:
- The National Library of Russia
- Holding institution (official language):
- Российская национальная библиотека. Отдел рукописей.
- Postal address:
- 91069, Russia, St. Petersburg, ul. Sadovaia, д. 18, main building; tel.: (812) 310-28-56; fax: (812) 310-61-48; e-mail: office@nlr.ru http://www.nlr.ru
- Reference number:
- F. 1476
- Title:
- M. B. Vakser
- Title (official language):
- ВАКСЕР М. Б.
- Creator/accumulator:
- M. B. Vakser
- Date(s):
- 1924/2003
- Language:
- Russian
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 53 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Graphic material
- Photographic images
- Scope and content:
- Housed in the fonds are personal documents of M. B. Vakser, including a pass permitting him to move about Leningrad at night (1941); a document issued to him stating that he was to be evacuated from Leningrad along with the Academy of Arts, per instructions of the USSR Council of People’s Commissars’ Committee on the Arts (undated); a notification issued by the All-Russian Academy of Arts to B. L. Vakser informing him of the death of his son M. B. Vakser in February 1942; a diary (1924-25); correspondence with A. N. Izvergina (1940-41); notebooks, sketches, fragments of letters, etc. (1941-42); architecture school projects (1937-41); book illustrations; amateur illustrated booklets, including “Lanz and the Beauty: A Fairy Tale,” “A Fairy Tale about Ptah” (1941); photographs of M. B. Vakser (1930s); a family photo with his brothers and cousins (1934); a group school photo (1920s); etc. The fonds also has a printed copy of a book by M. B. Vakser’s brother A. B. Vakser titled Vakserilia (Tel Aviv, 2001), with a handwritten note by the author upon his donation of the book to the Manuscripts Department of the National Library of Russia; the note includes reminiscences by the author and E. B. Vakser about their brother and father, and about the younger brother of M. B. Vakser’s father, the Hebrew and Yiddish writer I. L. Vakser; appended is an article by Ḥayim Naḥman Bialik titled “Israel’ Vakser (May his memory be a blessing),” published in the Berlin journal Rimon (no. 3, 1923); and a letter from A. B. Vakser to I. V. Selivanova with a description of the materials he had on his brother (2003).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Moisei Borisovich Vakser (1916-42) was an artist and architect. He was born in Baku. His father B. L. Vakser was active in the local Jewish community, one of the founders of the Baku Jewish secondary school [gimnaziia], and a delegate to the Second Congress of Zionists of Transcaucasia. M. B. Vakser moved to Minsk in 1929, whereupon he entered the Architecture and Construction Technicum and studied at the IZORAM (Workers’ Youth) studio. In 1934 he enrolled in the third course of the preparatory division of the Academy of Arts in Leningrad; and in 1935 he transferred to the first course in the architecture department. At the same time, he worked as a book designer, illustrating Gor’kii’s Mother, Charles de Coster’s The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel, I. A. Goncharov’s Oblomov, and The Thousand and One Nights. He died in Leningrad during the blockade. The fonds’ materials were donated by M. B. Vakser’s brother A. B. Vakser.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Izvergina, A. N.
- Selivanova, I. V.
- Vakser, A. B.
- Vakser, B. L.
- Vakser, E. B.
- Vakser, I. L.
- Vakser, M. B. (Moisei Borisovich)
- Subject terms:
- Architecture
- Correspondence
- Diaries
- Drawings
- Education
- Military
- Personal records
- Photographs
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes a single inventory systematised by structure.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary