Metadata: M. D. El’zon
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. 1339
- Title:
- M. D. El’zon
- Title (official language):
- ЭЛЬЗОН М. Д.
- Creator/accumulator:
- M. D. El’zon
- Date(s):
- 1845/2006
- Language:
- Russian
- English
- Extent:
- 1,012 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Scope and content:
- All inventories of the fonds include materials pertaining to Jewish history and culture; among these are personal materials of M. D. El’zon’s relatives, members of the Gitel’son and El’zon families (1910-70s), and in particular the birth certificate of R. A. Gitel’son (an extract from vital records, 1910); M.-U. G. Tsalik’s craftsman’s license (1914); photographs of M. F. Kvitko (nee El’zon), the wife of the poet Leyb Kvitko (1979); etc. Also housed in the fonds are letters from S. A. Vengerov (1890s-1900s) and Ilya Ehrenburg (1963); materials of S. Ia. Marshak (1910s-30s); autograph manuscripts of poems by Osip Mandel’shtam, Boris Slutskii, and M. D. Iasnov, and works by these poets recopied by M. D. El’zon (1960s); a letter from N. I. Evgenov to the photographer M. S. Nappel’baum with advice on writing a book of memoirs (1940); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Mikhail Davidovich El’zon (1945-2006) was a historian of Russian literature, bibliographer, and member of the Union of Writers of St. Petersburg. He graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Culture in 1967, and received his PhD in pedagogy in 1972. He was a student of B. Ia. Bukhshtab. He worked in the scientific-research sector of the Institute of Culture, at the Library of the Academy of Sciences, and from 1992 on, at the National Library of Russia, where he was a research associate in the Bibliography and Regional Studies Department. His research interests also included the history of books and publishing, and the history of bibliography. A well-known Petersburg bibliophile, he assembled a collection of rare books and autograph manuscripts that he donated already during his lifetime to the Manuscripts Department and the book collection of the National Library of Russia. He was the author of over 800 publications. His main work was the index Bibliophilism on the Pages of Russian Journals (6 vols.; Voronezh, 1975-78); in 1988 he began to publish, at a fairly intense pace, works by N. S. Gumilev (some for the first time) and V. Khodasevich; and articles and publications devoted to Pushkin, Nekrasov, and Fet.
- Access points: locations:
- Russia
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes three inventories systematised by structure and in part alphabetically.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary