Metadata: Count I. I. Tolstoi
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
- Phone number:
- (812) 310-28-56
- Web address:
- http://www.nlr.ru
- Email:
- office@nlr.ru
- Reference number:
- F. 781
- Title:
- Count I. I. Tolstoi
- Title (official language):
- ТОЛСТОЙ, гр. И. И.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Count I. I. Tolstoi
- Date(s):
- 1827/1915
- Language:
- Russian
- French
- German
- Latin
- Extent:
- 1,717 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Documents pertaining to the history of Jews in Russia are found in the following inventory sections: section 2, “Materials pertaining to official and public activities,” contains (subsection 3) official documents of I. I. Tolstoi pertaining to his work in the Ministry of Education, including information on the status of Jews in secondary and higher educational institutions of Russia (1900s), and in particular, reference material provided by the clerk M. Avilov regarding special Ministry of Education funding designated for the maintenance of Jewish educational institutions and the provision of grants to persons employed at them (1905); housed in subsection 11 is information on (a list of) Jews residing in the Chernigov province (undated), and also an antisemitic leaflet titled “An Appeal to the Russian People” (1906); subsection 28 includes materials on “the Jewish question,” including Jewish students’ proclamations against antisemitism, and a proclamation by a “group of Jewish Marxists” to the effect that the Social-Democratic faction in the State Duma was taking the correct tactic vis-à-vis “the Jewish question”; excerpts from newspaper articles, essays, and notices refuting antisemitic insults in the press; and a ticket to a ball to benefit Jewish students in St. Petersburg (1914-15). Section 4, “Correspondence of I. I. Tolstoi,” includes correspondence with Jewish public figures, artists, and cultural figures: N. S. Aronson (1915), I. V. Galant (1915); A. G. and D. G. Gintsburg (1905-07, 1913), I. Ia. Gintsburg (1906-08), M. M. Gran (1911-13), E. I. Grinman (1906-13), I. I. Leman (1905-13), I. L. Ravvinskii (undated), and others, as well as the Jewish Committee for the Relief of War Victims (EKOPO) and the Society for Equality of the Jewish People in Russia (1907). Section 4, “Materials of other persons,” has an essay (author unidentified) signed “A Friend of the Jews,” with pencil markings by I. I. Tolstoi (1888).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Count Ivan Ivanovich Tolstoi (1858-1915) was a statesman, archaeologist, and numismatist. He was a graduate of the St. Petersburg University law school. He became a member of the Imperial Archeographic Commission in 1886. In 1889 he was appointed convention secretary of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, of which he became vice-president in 1893. He was actively involved in drawing up the Academy’s new charter, and in its fundamental reorganisation. He was instrumental in the founding and organisation of the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. From 1885-90 he was secretary of the Imperial Russian Archeological Society, becoming its deputy chair in 1889. In 1897 he was elected an honorary member of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences. In 1900 he became chair of the Russian Press Society. In 1905-06 he served as minister of education, and later, from 1914, as mayor of Petrograd. In his capacity as a public figure he frequently called for full civil equality for Jews. He was the author of studies on Russian art and numismatics. He published (with Iu. I. Gessen) the book Facts and Thoughts: The Jewish Question in Russia (St. Petersburg, 1907).
- Access points: locations:
- Chernigov province
- Russia
- St Petersburg
- Access points: persons/families:
- Aronson, N. S.
- Avilov, M.
- Galant, I. V.
- Gintsburg, A. G.
- Gintsburg. D. G.
- Gran, M. M.
- Grinman, E. I.
- Leman, I. I.
- Ravvinskii, I. L.
- Tolstoy, I. I.
- Subject terms:
- Aid and relief
- Antisemitism
- Antisemitism--Antisemitic propaganda
- Antisemitism--Antisemitic publications
- Art
- Art--Artists
- Correspondence
- Education
- Education--Schools and universities
- Jewish Question
- Literature
- Literature--Writers, poets, and playwrights
- Newspaper clippings
- Professions
- Professions--Scholars (secular), scientists, and academics
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes a single inventory systematised by structure, and in part alphabetically.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
