Metadata: P. I. Veinberg
Collection
- Country:
- Russia
- Holding institution:
- Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Holding institution (official language):
- Институт русской литературы (Пушкинский Дом) Российской Академии наук
- Postal address:
- 199034, St. Petersburg, nab. Makarova, d. 4
- Phone number:
- (812) 328-19-01
- Web address:
- http://www.pushkinskijdom.ru
- Email:
- irliran@mail.ru
- Reference number:
- F. 62
- Title:
- P. I. Veinberg
- Title (official language):
- Вейнберг П. И.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Veinberg, Petr Iasevich
- Date(s):
- 1846/1944
- Language:
- Russian
- German
- French
- Extent:
- 901 archival storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains manuscripts of P. I. Veinberg’s literary works and commentary pieces (1846-1908), his personal documents, materials pertaining to his literary and public activities, and correspondence (1876-1900s); documents of P. I. Veinberg’s relatives: his son B. P. Veinberg, a physicist (1897-1924) and his daughters K. P. and Z. P. Veinberg (1924-44), as well as his father I. S. Veinberg; and writings and correspondence of other persons (1880s-1910s). Pertaining to Jewish history and culture (ops. 3-5) are letters from Russian-Jewish cultural figures to P. I. and B. P. Veinberg, including from David Aizman (1908), S. A. Vengerov (1897-1905), Z. A. Vengerova (1897-99), M. A. Vol’f-Israel (1898), D. M. Gertsenshtein (1908), I. V. Gessen (1900s), Ia. M. Gessen (1900), I. Ia. Gintsburg (1898-1908), A. G. Gornfel’d (1902-08), Vladimir Jabotinsky (1902), O. R. Kugel’ (1889-1901), I. Levitt (1898), O. K. Notovich (1894, 1908), A. G. Rubinshtein (1893), A. L. Flekser (Volynskii, 1896), O. A. Shapir (1904), I. I. Iasinskii (1885-1904) and others.
- Administrative/biographical history:
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Petr Isaevich Veinberg (1831-1908) was a literary historian, poet, translator and literary and theatre critic. Beginning in 1841, he studied at the secondary school of the Richelieu Lyceum, then in the lyceum’s law school, which he left in 1850 to enter the history and philology department of Khar’kov University. He published his first book (original and translated poetry) in Odessa in 1854. Upon graduating, he moved to Tambov, where he served as a special-assignments officer for the governor and edited the unofficial section of the Tambov Province Gazette. He moved to St. Petersburg in 1858. Here he contributed to Sovremennik, Syn otechestva, Otechestvennye zapiski and other periodicals, publishing poems, translations and articles. He was a contributor to Iskra from 1859 to 1866. Most of his writings constituted literary translations. From 1868-74, he chaired the Russian literature department at Warsaw’s Main School. He also served as editor of the newspaper Varshavskii dnevnik. He wrote a study titled “Russian Folk Songs about Ivan the Terrible”. In 1874 he returned to St. Petersburg, where until 1890 he served in His Imperial Majesty’s Own Chancery dealing with institutions of the Empress Maria. His writings were published in Sankt-Peterburgskie vedomosti, Delo, Russkoe bogatsvo and Severnyi vestnik. He was a member of the Theatre and Literary Committee, and in 1893 edited the Theatre Gazette. He lectured on the history of Russian and foreign literature at the Higher Women’s Pedagogical Courses and at the drama courses of the Theatre Academy. He served for five years as an inspector at the Kolomna women’s secondary school and then as director of the Ia. G. Gurevich secondary school and realschule. From 1887 to 1894 he was a privat-docent in St. Petersburg University’s department of world literature. In 1897-1901, he was chair of the Russian Writers’ Mutual Assistance Union. He spent many years working for the Literary Fund, which he also chaired. In 1905 he was elected an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) (IRLI RAN) is a research institution within the Russian Academy of Sciences system. It was established in December 1905 on the initiative of several Russian cultural figures. In 1899, the Academy of Sciences had organised a commission to prepare celebrations of the centenary of Alexander Pushkin’s birth. The commission originally planned to erect a monument to the poet, but eventually it was decided to establish a museum and library. In April 1906, government funding was allocated for the acquisition of Pushkin’s library, which, upon its transfer to Pushkin House, became the initial basis for an enormous collection of books, manuscripts, and items related to the great Russian poet. The main fonds of the Pushkin House was assembled by B L Modzalevskii. He also drafted the “Pushkin House statute”, ratified by Emperor Nicholas II in 1907. Since 1930, the Pushkin House has been the academic Institute of Russian Literature while also preserving its original name of Pushkin House. In 1955, the Pushkin House was added to the State Codex of Particularly Valuable Objects of Cultural Heritage. The Pushkin House is currently one of the leading centres for research on Russian literature.
The manuscripts department constitutes a complex for source studies; along with the literary museum and library, it served as the basis for the establishment of the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) (IRLI RAN) in 1930. It was organised in 1906, when the Pushkin House received the library of A. S. Pushkin, numbering over 3,500 volumes. In 1908, the first manuscript materials were received: A. N. Pleshcheev’s letters to V. D. Dandevil’ and autograph manuscripts of A. S. Pushkin; subsequently received (1928) was a collection of Pushkin-era manuscripts and memorabilia that had belonged to A. F. Onegin. By resolution of the government (1938) and Academy (1948), all Pushkin autograph manuscripts formerly held in the country’s various archives were concentrated at Pushkin House. In 1917, the manuscript heritage of M. Iu. Lermontov was transferred to Pushkin House, and in 1919, the Dashkov collection and the collection of M. I. Semevskii, consisting especially of the extensive archive of the journal Russkaia starina [Russian Antiquities]. Upon the incorporation of Pushkin House into the Academy of Sciences structure in 1930, the manuscripts department was established and tasked with the special functions of collecting, housing, systematising and studying the manuscript heritage of Russian writers, and fonds of their personal papers were organised. The manuscripts department also includes collections of literary organisations, publishing houses and periodicals. In all, the manuscripts department houses over 900 fonds and collections. There are also numerous reference and biblioGraphic materials, first and foremost the card catalogue of S. A. Vengerov. This is joined by the card catalogues of B. L. and L. B. Modzalevskii, as well as of V. I. Saitov; these contain bibliographic, biographical and genealogical information, not only about writers but also about the entire cultural stratum of 19th-century Russian society. The manuscripts department is constantly updated with new materials. The department’s research activities are reflected in its publications and editions, its primary serial being the Yearbook of the Manuscripts Department of Pushkin House. The web site of the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) features an electronic version of the publication Personal Fonds of the Manuscripts Department of Pushkin House. An Annotated Index (St. Petersburg, 1999).
- Access points: locations:
- Russia
- Access points: persons/families:
- Gessen, I. V.
- Gornfel’d, A. G.
- Iasinskii, I. I.
- Notovich, O. K.
- Rubinshtein, A. G.
- Vengerov, S. A.
- Vengerova, Z. A.
- Subject terms:
- Correspondence
- Literature
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds comprises five series arranged mainly alphabetically.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary