Metadata: A. Ia. Al’tshuller
Collection
- Country:
- Russia
- Holding institution:
- Russian Institute of Art History
- Holding institution (official language):
- Российский институт истории искусств
- Postal address:
- 190000, St. Petersburg, Isaakievskaia pl., d. 5
- Phone number:
- (812) 315-45-49
- Web address:
- http://artcenter.ru/structure/kabinet-rukopisej/
- Email:
- spb@artcenter.ru
- Reference number:
- F. 136
- Title:
- A. Ia. Al’tshuller
- Title (official language):
- Альтшуллер А. Я.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Al’tshuller, Anatolii Iakovlevich
- Date(s):
- 1951/1997
- Language:
- Russian
- English
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 272 archival storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains personal documents and mementos of A. Ia. Al’tshuller (1948-97), his correspondence with various institutions and individuals (1951-96), letters to his wife, the theatre historian Iu. P. Rybakova (1980-88), photographs (undated) etc. Pertaining to the history of Jews in Russia is A. Ia. Al’tshuller’s correspondence with Prof. M. Al’tshuller of Hebrew University in Jerusalem, an Israeli specialist in the history of Soviet Jewry (1991-92).
- Administrative/biographical history:
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Anatolii Iakovlevich Al’tshuller (1922-96) was a specialist in theatre studies and doctor of art history; he became a professor in 1977. He graduated from the State Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinematography (LGITMiK) in 1948. In 1962, he became head of the source studies and bibliography sector of the research department of LGITMiK. He was the author of works on the history of the Russian theatre, theatre criticism and the methodology of theatre studies, including: Aleksandr Evstaf’evich Martynov, 1816-60 (Leningrad, 1959); A Theatre of Illustrious Masters: Essays on the History of the Alexander Stage (Leningrad, Moscow, 1968); Iulia Linskaia, 1820-71 (Leningrad, 1973); Pavel Svobodin (Moscow, 1976); Five Stories about Famous Actors: Duets. Collaboration. Fellowship (Leningrad, 1985); etc. He also edited Essays on the History of Russian Theatre Criticism. Late 19th – Early 20th Century (Leningrad, 1979).
The Russian Institute of Art History (RIII RAS) is a research institute of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. It was founded in 1912 by Count V P Zubov on the model of Florence’s Istituto statale d’arte. Originally it was called the Institute of Art History and was housed in the mansion of V P Zubov. After the October Revolution, Zubov transferred his home to the new government and the institute became a state institution, in 1920 receiving the new title of Russian Institute of Art History. It has undergone several name changes over the course of its existence – from 1924-31, it was called the State Institute of Art History; from 1933-37, the State Academy of Art History; from 1958-62, the State Research Institute of Theatre, Music, and Cinematography; and since 1992, the Russian Institute of Art History. The institute’s staff included Iu N Tynianov, B M Eikhenbaum, B V Asaf’ev, V M Zhirmunskii, A V Preobrazhenskii and other well-known literary critics and musicologists.
The Manuscripts Office (formerly the Historiography Office, the Office of Archival Fonds) of the Russian Institute of Art History features a collection of unique documents covering Russian musical and theatre life of the 18th to 20th centuries. It was organised in 1938, when the institute received collections of the Leningrad Philharmonic’s Museum of Music History. The Manuscripts Office currently has 130 fonds of personal provenance, as well as a number of other collections.
- Access points: locations:
- Russia
- Subject terms:
- Correspondence
- Photographs
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds comprises a single series (with a supplement) arranged by structure.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
