Metadata: E. M. Feoktistov
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. 318
- Title:
- E. M. Feoktistov
- Title (official language):
- Феоктистов Е. М.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Feoktistov, Evgenii Mikhailovich
- Date(s):
- 1851/1892
- Language:
- Russian
- French
- Extent:
- 60 archival storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains written notes and diaries of E. M. Feoktistov (1860s-90s), his correspondence with literary, political, and public figures, in particular, Count D. A. Tolstoy (1879), K. P. Pobedonostsev (1882), N. P. Giliarov-Platonov (1885), M. N. Katkov (1883), Prince V. P. Meshcherskii (1884), etc. Pertaining to the history of Jews in Russia is a document by E. M. Feoktistov titled “Notes” (collected in ten notebooks) that describes his experience serving as head of the Main Press Administration and gives his thoughts on the Jewish press in the 1880s; it also includes impressions of the physiologist and journalist I. F. Tsion (1861, 1882, 1892). The fonds also contains letters from K. P. Pobedonostsev to E. M. Feoktistov that reflect the former’s antisemitic views (1889-90).
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
Evgenii Mikhailovich Feoktistov (1829-98) was a public figure and commentator. He graduated from Moscow University law school in 1851. In 1852, translations of his were published in the journal Magazin zemlevladeniia i puteshestvii (vol. 1). In 1853, he began working at the Tavriia State Property Chamber; a year later, he returned to Moscow, where he served in the office of the Moscow governor and was then appointed a history teacher at the Alexander Cadet Corps. During this period, he was a contributor to Moskovskaia gazeta, Russkii vestnik and Otechestvennye zapiski, publishing several historical articles. In 1861, he became an assistant to Countess E. V. Salias de Tournemire, running her journal Russkaia rech’, then serving as its editor-in-chief. In 1862, he moved to St. Petersburg, where he became a special-assignments officer for the minister of education. From 1871 to 1883, he served as editor of the Journal of the Ministry of Education. From 1883 to 1896, he was director of the Main Press Administration; in 1896, he was appointed a senator. In the early 1860s, he was a member of the Commission to Draft Legislation on the Press. He was the author of several dozen articles, mainly on Russian and European history, most published in Russkii vestnik (1856-82). He was honourably discharged from his post in 1896, but continued to maintain ties with persons involved with the Main Press Administration in his capacity as deputy minister of internal affairs and to take part in the work of the State Council during hearings of this administration’s affairs. He was later permanently removed from censorship affairs and appointed to the Senate’s civil appellate department.
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
- Subject terms:
- Antisemitism
- Correspondence
- Diaries
- Jewish press
- Professions
- Professions--Journalists
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is arranged by structure and alphabetically.
- Finding aids:
- A card file is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
