Metadata: Archive of the Editorial Offices of the Journal Russkoe bogatsvo
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. 266
- Title:
- Archive of the Editorial Offices of the Journal Russkoe bogatsvo
- Title (official language):
- Aрхив редакции журнала «Русское богатство»
- Creator/accumulator:
- Russkoe bogatsvo
- Date(s):
- 1821/1918
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 1,868 archival storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
The fonds contains documents on the history of founding of the journal Russkoe bogatsvo; manuscripts of authors who submitted writings (short stories, poems, articles, reviews, and notes) to the editorial office; correspondence between authors and editors; recordkeeping materials; autobiographical statements, biographies, and biographical information on leaders of the revolutionary movement in the Russian Empire; etc. Materials pertaining to Jewish history and culture (mainly in ops. 1-3, 5) may be provisionally divided into three thematic groups:
1) Authors’ manuscripts of works to be published in the journal, including a survey by V. S. Elpat’evskii titled “The Gomel’ Trial. A Detailed Report on the Trial in the Case of the Pogrom in Gomel’ in 1903” (1908); M. Borin’s article “Race and Jewry” (1915); N. B. Mirkin’s review of Ignacy Schiper’s book The Emergence of Capitalism among the Jews of Western Europe (undated); an article by P. L. Lavrov titled “The Jewish Question and Socialism” (undated); and a story by Ia. Shokhor titled “Leibele” that deals with Jewish life in a town of the Southwestern territory (undated).
2) Correspondence between authors and editors of the journal regarding publication of works, including letters from S. An-skii and Sholem Aleichem to V. G. Korolenko (1911, 1912), and also a letter from Sholem Aleichem to A. B. Petrishchev (1912).
3) Open letters, appeals, addresses, and greetings and telegrams sent to the editorial office, in particular, an appeal titled “To Russian Society” in connection with the Beilis case signed by many representatives of the Russian intelligentsia (1912); a greeting from the editorial office of Evreiskaia nedelia [The Jewish Week] on the occasion of Russkoe bogatsvo’s 40th anniversary, wishing the journal continued prosperity (1917).
- Administrative/biographical history:
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Russkoe bogatsvo [Russian Wealth] (originally called the Journal of Trade, Industry, Agriculture, and Natural Science) was a literary, scholarly and political journal published from 1876 to 1918. It was founded by N. F. Savich in Moscow; in 1876, publication was transferred to St. Petersburg. It was initially published three times a month; in 1879, it became a monthly. In 1879-81, it was published by a cooperative of writers of the populist (narodnik) orientation, including N. N. Zlatovratskii, A. M. Skabichevskii, G. I. Uspenskii, N. F. Bazhin, V. M. Garshin, L. N. Trefolev and others. After the events of 1 March 1881, the cooperative broke up and directorship of the journal was taken over by the writer and philosopher L. E. Obolenskii. Its primary theoreticians were now L. E. Obolenskii and I. I. Kablits (literary pseudonym: I. Iuzov). The journal began to run articles on philosophy and ethics from such contributors as N. N. Zlatovratskii, S. Atava (S. I. Terpigorev), S. D. Drozhzhin, A. I. Pal’m, O. F. Miller, M. K. Tsebrikova, and A. K. Sheller-Mikhailov). Beginning in 1892, under a new populist editorial board, the journal became prominent in Russian literary and social life. Ideologically, the journal was headed by N. K. Mikhailovskii and V. G. Korolenko (officially, its editors-in-chief were P. V. Bykov and S. I. Popov). In its journalism, criticism and fiction, the journal focused on the state of the Russian countryside, domestic politics, analysis of serfdom and criticism of the reactionary press. Contributors to Russkoe bogatsvo included the writers P. V. Zasodimskii, D. N. Mamin-Sibiriak, K. M. Staniukovich, I. A. Bunin, L. N. Andreev, M. Gorky, A. I. Kuprin, V. V. Veresaev and S. An-skii; and the journal published the final works of G. I. Uspenskii. After the Revolution of 1905, the journal became the organ of the so-called “people’s socialists” (A. V. Peshekhonov, V. Ia. Miakotin, N. F. Annenskii and others.). From 1914 to March 1917, the journal was published under the title Russkia zapiski [Russian Notes]; in 1918, it was closed by decree of the Soviet government for publishing anti-Soviet statements.
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 de+AA105partment 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: persons/families:
- Sholem Aleichem
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds comprises five inventories, arranged by structure, theme and alphabetically.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
