Metadata: A. I. Tiumenev
Collection
- Country:
- Russia
- Holding institution:
- St. Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Holding institution (official language):
- Санкт-Петербургский филиал архива Российской академии наук
- Postal address:
- 199034, St. Petersburg, Universitetskaia naberezhnaia, d. 1
- Phone number:
- (812) 323-08-21
- Web address:
- www.ranar.spb.ru
- Email:
- archive@spbrc.nw.ru
- Reference number:
- F. 891
- Title:
- A. I. Tiumenev
- Title (official language):
- Тюменев А. И.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Tiumenev, Aleksandr Il’ich
- Date(s):
- 1893/1959
- Language:
- Russian
- English
- French
- German
- Extent:
- 416 archival storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
The fonds contains materials pertaining to A. I. Tiumenev’s biography and scholarly activities (1893-1959); notes, extracts, and biblioGraphic materials on world history, the history of antiquity, the ancient East and the USSR; materials on the methodology of historical research; evaluations of other scholars’ research (1909-59); A. I. Tiumenev’s correspondence (1937-59) and scholarly works by various other persons (1912-57).
Materials pertaining to Jewish history and culture, found in ops. 1 and 4, include manuscript versions of two articles for the Great Soviet Encyclopaedia: “The Jewish War” (undated) and “Jews in the Middle Ages” (1932); excerpts from the studies of various authors; draft notebooks with notes on Jewish history of different periods, in particular, on agriculture and trade in Palestine in the 6th c. BC (undated); as well as a synopsis of a report by I. G. Frank-Kamenetskii titled “On the Origin of Royal Power in Ancient Israel”, delivered at the Institute of Marxist Methodology (1929); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
Aleksandr Il’ich Tiumenev (1880-1959) was a historian, Orientalist and specialist in the history of the ancient world. In 1904 he graduated from the history and philology department of St. Petersburg University. In 1921-23, he was involved in operations of the Marxist Research Society. In 1928-31, he was a research associate at the Institute of Marxist Methodology and the Leningrad branch of the Communist Academy. In 1931-38, he was a researcher of the State Academy of the History of Material Culture (GAIMK). He taught at Leningrad State University. In 1932 he was elected a full member of the USSR Academy of Sciences in the ancient history division. In 1945, he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour for outstanding services in the development of science in connection with the 220th anniversary of the USSR Academy of Sciences. He was awarded the medal “For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45”. He was a member of the academic council of the Leningrad branch of the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences and of the academic council of the Library of the USSR Academy of Sciences. His primary scholarly works were The Theory of Historical Materialism (St. Petersburg, 1907), Jews in Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Petrograd, 1922), Essays on the Economic and Social History of Ancient Greece (in 3 vols., 1920-22), A History of Ancient Slave Societies (Moscow, Leningrad, 1935), The State Economy of Ancient Sumer (Moscow, Leningrad, 1956), etc.
The archive of the Academy of Sciences was established by decree of Emperor Peter I in 1728 to house documents of the Conference (supreme assembly) of the Academy. At the same time, Academy of Sciences President L L Bliumentrost appointed Gerhard Friedrich Müller, a student of the Academy gymnasium (subsequently an academician, and the first historiographer to the Russian Empire), to organise the files of the Conference of the Academy of Sciences. During the 18th to 20th centuries, separate archives of other subdivisions of the Academy of Sciences existed as well: the archives of the Chancellery of the Academy of Sciences (18th century) and the Committee of the Board of the Academy of Sciences (the chancellery’s institutional successor; documents date from 1803) as well as archives of departments. In 1922, all Academy archives were merged into a single Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, renamed in 1930 the Archive of the USSR Academy of Sciences (and in 1991, once again the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences). In 1936, a Moscow branch of the archive was created in connection with the Academy’s relocation to that city. In 1963, the Archive of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Leningrad was reorganised as the Leningrad Branch of the Archive of the USSR Academy of Sciences, while the Archival Directorate was transferred to Moscow. In 1991, the Leningrad branch was renamed the St. Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPF ARAN). The archive houses over 1,600 fonds containing approximately one million items.
- Access points: locations:
- Russia
- Subject terms:
- Historical research
- Manuscripts
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds comprises four series arranged according to the structural-chronological principle and alphabetically.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
