Metadata: Collection of I. A. Shliapkin
Collection
- Country:
- Russia
- Holding institution:
- St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Holding institution (official language):
- Санкт-Петербургский институт истории Российской Академии наук
- Postal address:
- 197110, St. Petersburg, Petrozavodskaia ul., d. 7
- Phone number:
- (812) 235-15-80
- Web address:
- http://www.spbiiran.nw.ru
- Email:
- spb_ii_ran@mail.ru
- Reference number:
- F. К-154
- Title:
- Collection of I. A. Shliapkin
- Title (official language):
- Коллекция И. А. Шляпкина
- Creator/accumulator:
- Shliapkin, I A
- Date(s):
- 1533/1913
- Language:
- Russian
- French
- Extent:
- 1,170 archival storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- Material pertaining to Jewish history (op. 1) includes a manuscript and a lithographic copy of a composition by V. N. Khitrovo titled “On the Holy Land”, written in the travelogue genre and describing the monuments of Jerusalem (1880); “A note on the slander against Jews that has arisen in the city on the occasion of the discovery of the corpse of an infant in the swamp”, which contains a strong defence of Jews and calls for an end to unfounded accusations against them (the blood libel) (1827); handwritten copies of letters of Senator I. P. Zakrevskii on the Dreyfus case, which not only deal with details of the trial of Alfred Dreyfus, but also describe the social atmosphere that had taken shape in France in this period and discuss the issue of the emergence of antisemitism (1899).
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
Il’ia Aleksandrovich Shliapkin (1858-1918) was a philologist, palaeographer and historian of old Russian art. Upon graduating from the history and philology department of St. Petersburg University with the degree of candidate in 1881, he remained in the department of Russian literature. In 1888, he began teaching at the university as a privat-docent. In 1891, he defended his master’s thesis. In 1901, he became a professor in the department of the history of Russian literature (history and philology faculty). From 1886 to 1895, he was an instructor on the staff of the Nicholas Cadet Corps. From 1890 on, he taught history of Russian literature at the Higher Women’s Courses and in 1896, he received the chair in this subject at the Imperial Alexander Lyceum. He prepared an edition of the complete works of A. S. Griboedov for publication. I. A. Shliapkin’s works include An Inventory of Manuscripts and Books of the Museum of the Archaeological Commission of the Pskov Provincial Statistics Committee (Pskov, 1879), A Description of the Manuscripts of Suzdal’s Spaso-Evfimiyev Monastery (St. Petersburg, 1881), A Russian Homily of the 11th c. on the Translation of the Relics of St. Nicholas the Miracle-Worker and its Relationship to Western Sources (St. Petersburg, 1881), St. Demetrius of Rostov and His Time (1651-1709) (St. Petersburg, 1891), Tsarevna Natal’ia Alekseevna and the Theatre of Her Time (St. Petersburg, 1898), Ancient Russian Crosses (St. Petersburg, 1906) and A History of Russian Literature (St. Petersburg, 1911).
The St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPbII RAS) is the institutional successor of the Leningrad branch of the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences, which was established in February 1936 on the basis of the Historical Archaeographic Institute, which in turn had been formed via a merger of the Russian State Archaeographic Commission and the Standing Historical Commission of the Academy of Sciences, as well as the Leningrad branch of the Institute of History of the Communist Academy of the USSR Central Executive Committee and the Institute of Books, Documents and Letters of the USSR Academy of Sciences, which had absorbed the Russian and Western European parts of the collection of Academician N P Likhachev. The Leningrad branch of the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences was thus descended from Russia’s oldest research institutions: the Archaeographic Expedition of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences founded in 1829 and the Imperial Archaeographic Commission (IAK) established in 1834. In 1953, the presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences resolved to “abolish the Leningrad branch of the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences (LOII), leaving the institute’s archive in Leningrad”; this latter entity was used to form the Department of Ancient Manuscripts and Documents of the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The decision to abolish the LOII was soon recognised as erroneous, and in April 1956 the Leningrad branch of the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences was restored. In connection with the breakup of the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences into the Institute of the History of the USSR and the Institute of World History, in August 1968 the Leningrad branch of the Institute of History became the Leningrad branch of the Institute of the History of the USSR. In 1992, the Leningrad branch of the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences was reorganised as the St. Petersburg branch of the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2000, the institute became independent and, in accordance with a decree of the presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences of 27 June 2000, it was renamed the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The Research and Historical Archive arose as a successor to assemblies of the Imperial Archaeographic Commission (IAK) and was formally established in 1837 by decree of Emperor Nicholas I as part of the Ministry of Education; its purpose was to collect, study, and publish documentary sources on the history of Russia. By 1917, the IAK’s manuscript materials comprised 92 fonds and collections numbering over 64,000 archival storage units. In January 1922, the Russian State Archaeographic Commission became part of the Academy of Sciences. Its fonds and collections were supplemented with nationalised archives of monasteries and private collections and with several fonds transferred from other archives. In 1936, all these materials were transferred to the archive of the Leningrad branch of the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences, which was established the same year. Also constituting a significant portion of the LOII fonds was the collection (assembled from the 1880s to the outbreak of the First World War) of Academician N P Likhachev, a prominent collector of Russian and Western European documents, manuscripts and early printed books as well as autograph manuscripts and seals. The archive currently contains over 390 fonds, including approximately 188,000 archival storage units.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Khitrovo, V. N.
- System of arrangement:
- The collection comprises two series (op. 1 in three parts), arranged mainly according to the structural-thematic principle.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
