Metadata: L. V. Shaporina-Iakovleva
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. 1086
- Title:
- L. V. Shaporina-Iakovleva
- Title (official language):
- ШАПОРИНА-ЯКОВЛЕВА Л. В.
- Creator/accumulator:
- L. V. Shaporina-Iakovleva
- Date(s):
- 1917/1958
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 36 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Materials on the history of Jews in Russia come primarily in the form of journal entries by L. V. Shaporina-Iakovleva; a diary entry from 1917 tells of V. G. Logvinovich, a county marshal of the nobility who had showed L. V. Shaporina a “document,” supposedly found during the war on the body of a Jewish soldier who had been killed, that concerned a secret Jewish organisation of “tsadikim” who gather once a century in Vienna; and mentions the political figures Fedor Dan, M. I. Liber, Abram Gots, and others, with emphasis on their Jewish background; an entry from 22 February 1949 connects the campaign against “cosmopolitan” theatre critics with the government’s reaction to “excitement” in the Jewish milieu in connection with a visit to the USSR by Golda Meir: “Jews are under fire. The abuse directed at them is like a call to a pogrom.” Also mentioned is the composer Iu. L. Veisberg and Mira Mendel’son (the wife of S. S. Prokof’ev), who is said to have had great influence in theatre circles; a diary from 1950-51 mentions rumours going around Leningrad of a criminal organisation (of about one hundred persons, three Russian, the rest Jewish) that supposedly kidnapped and murdered children, with a “Jewish professor” using their blood for his experiments; L. V. Shaporina believed that the circulation of these rumours was “organised”; diary entries from 1952-53 contain information on the “Doctors’ Plot” and on the antisemitic campaign in the press, which she ascribes to the antisemitism of G. M. Malenkov; there is evidence of rising antisemitism among the population as a result of this campaign, feelings of panic among Jews, etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Liubov’ Vasil’evna Shaporina (née Iakovleva; 1879-1967) was an artist, translator (from the French), and theatre figure. She graduated from the pedagogy courses of the St. Catherine Institute, then studied at La Palette Art Academy in Paris. Upon returning to St. Petersburg, she took part in exhibits of the New Artists’ Society and the World of Art. In 1917 she worked in the military censorship. From 1918 on she headed the Petrograd Puppet Theater (the Shaporina Puppet Theater). After the theatre merged with the Petrushka Theater in 1930 under the general direction of E. S. Demmeni, she headed the new theatre’s design and production unit until 1940. During the Second World War she worked as a nurse in a hospital in Leningrad; after the war she headed the puppet theatre of the Dzerzhinskii District House of Pioneers and Schoolchildren. She began translating in the 1900s, an activity she continued throughout her life. She translated works by Stendhal, G. Keller, Carlo Goldoni, Luigi Pirandello, Igor Stravinsky’s Chronicle of My Life, letters in French from K. Petrov-Vodkin to his wife, etc.
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes a single inventory systematised by structure.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
