Metadata: A. A. Dernov
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. 248
- Title:
- A. A. Dernov
- Title (official language):
- ДЕРНОВ А. А.
- Creator/accumulator:
- A. A. Dernov
- Date(s):
- 1832/1922
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 728 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Materials pertaining to Jewish history and culture housed in the fonds include letters of Jewish scholars and public figures: a letter from N. Vitashevskii, a writer and journalist from the city of Nikolaev, to S. O. Gruzenberg, remarking on how anti-Jewish pogroms were threatening to break out in cities of the Russian Empire (March 1904); correspondence of the philosopher and public commentator D. M. Koigen with M. M. Gakkebush, editor of the newspaper Birzhevye vedomosti, regarding publication of the former’s articles “On a Historical Paradox” (which “touches on the Jewish issue in connection with the State Duma and the institution of ‘legal diversity’ on which Russian statehood remains based even now”) and “Two Elements in European Culture (Aryanism and Semitism)” (September 1915); a letter from the theatre critic A. R. Kugel’ to M. M. Gakkebush proposing that Birzhevye vedomosti publish an appeal for aid to Jewish refugees (September 1915). The fonds also contains several documents of Jewish cultural figures that reflect the degree of their integration into overall Russian cultural processes, and their attitudes toward Jewry; in particular: letters from M. O. Gerzhenzon to A. P. Koptiaev (1907), M. A. Kuzmin (1912), and P. A. Morozov (1916); from O. O. Gruzenberg to an undetermined person (1900); from I. M. Knorozovskii to V. V. Chekhov (1905); from M. A. Gol’denblium to A. P. Koptiaev (1914); from S. A. Vengerov to N. A. Leikin (1891-1903); an autobiographical note by the lawyer and public intellectual V. M. Gessen, written in the hand of Ia. Gessen (1910); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Dernov (1857-1922) was a priest and collector. He was a graduate of the Viatka religious school and theological seminary. In 1878 he was sent by the seminary board to the St. Petersburg Theological Academy, from which he graduated in 1882 with the degree of doctor of theology. In 1882, with the blessing of Metropolitan Isidor (Nikol'skii) of St. Petersburg and Novgorod, he was ordained to the diaconate; he served in the Church of St. Mary Magdalene at the hospital of the same name on Vasil’evskii Island, line 1. In 1888, in accordance with a recommendation by Archpriest Ioann Ianyshev, superintendent of the court clergy, he was transferred to the Peter and Paul Cathedral, of which he was appointed sacristan in 1897; and in 1899 Metropolitan Antonii (Vadkovskii) of St. Petersburg and Ladoga ordained him as an archpriest and appointed him abbot of the Peter and Paul Cathedral. From 1884-99, by invitation of Grand Duke Vladimir Aleksandrovich and Grand Duchess Mariia Pavlovna, he served as the religion instructor for their children, the Grand Dukes Kirill, Boris, and Andrei and Grand Duchess Elena. From October 1882 on, he was a member of the Society to Disseminate Religious and Moral Education in the Spirit of the Russian Orthodox Church and several other volunteer societies; and he was on the staff of several church publications; and editor of the journal Pravoslavnoe-russkoe slovo [The Orthodox-Russian Word] (St. Petersburg, 1902-05), published by the Society to Disseminate Religious and Moral Education. The “Dernov Collection” consists of materials he collected over the course of many years on the history of Russian journalism and autograph manuscripts of writers, public figures, and scholars, mainly from the late 19th – early 20th centuries.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Chekhov, V. V.
- Dernov, A. A. (Aleksandr Aleksandrovich)
- Gakkebush, M. M.
- Gerzhenzon, M. O.
- Gessen, Ia.
- Gessen, V. M.
- Gol’denblium, M. A.
- Gruzenberg, O. O.
- Gruzenberg, S. O.
- Knorozovskii, I. M.
- Koigen, D. M.
- Koptiaev, A. P.
- Kugel’, A. R.
- Kuzmin, M. A.
- Leikin, N. A.
- Morozov, P. A.
- Vengerov, S. A.
- Vitashevskii, N.
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes a single inventory systematised alphabetically.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
