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Last update of repository: 15 March 2020

Institut vostochnykh rukopisei RAN (IVR)


Arkhiv vostokovedov
[Archive of Orientalists (Asiatic Archive)]

Telephone: +7 812 571-94-96

Website: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind...  (Rus); http://www.orientalstudies.ru/eng/ind...  (Eng)

Opening hours: M–F 10:00–17:00

Holdings

Total: 133 fonds; ca. 60,000 units; 1566–1991
photographs—517 (1880s–1960s)

The Archive of Orientalists (under the Sector for Oriental Manuscripts and Documents) includes institutional records and personal papers and documentary collections of scholars representing the St. Petersburg school of Orientalists. Institutional fonds include records of the Third International Congress of Orientalists in St. Petersburg (1876), the Twenty-Fifth International Congress of Orientalists in Moscow (1960), the Russian Palestine Society (1888–1935), the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Beijing (1784–1916), and the Editorial-Publication Council of LOIV AN, as well as a collection of dissertations defended at the Institute (1939–1964).
        Fonds of personal papers include those of Friedrich Adelung, Marie-Felicité Brosset, O.M. Kovalevskii, V.S. Miller, V.V. Struve, and B.Ia. Vladimirtsov. There are also papers of the Sinologist and leader of the ninth Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Beijing, Archimandrite Iakinf (N.Ia. Bichurin), the historian and Sinologist E.V. Bretshneider, the Mongolian specialist V.V. Grigor'ev, the Arabist and historian K.A. Inostrantsev, the Moldavian Hospodar D.K. Kantemir, the Turkologist A.L. Kun (Kuhn), the traveller G.S. Lebedev, the Egyptologist O.E. Lemm, the Iranianist P.I. Lerkh, the Japanese specialist O.O. Rozenberg, the archeologist V.G. Tizengauzen, and the Semitic scholar D.A. Khvol'son, among others.
        Archival collections (razriady) are comprised of scholarly works, folklore materials, and copies of documents, combined along territorial or linguistic principles into groups by countries, regions, and language groups (China, Manchuria, Mongolia and Tibet, Japan and Korea, India and Indonesia, Iran and Afghanistan, Turkey, the Arabic countries, Israel (Hebraic and Yiddish), and Africa; Buriats and Kalmuks, the Caucasus region, Siberian peoples, Turkic peoples, Finno-Ugric peoples, the peoples of Central Asia, and a separate collection for the Kazakhs). The collections comprise materials from different individuals, such as travel notes and observations, and miscellaneous documents acquired from various Oriental sources.
        The Photograph Archive contains negatives, individual photographs and photo albums, postcards, engravings, and illustrations from books. In part these have been acquired with the personal fonds of V.M. Alekseev, V.V. Bartol'd (Wilhelm Barthold), E.V. Bretshneider, S.F. Ol'denburg, and V.R. Rozen (now held in the St. Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences—SPbF ARAN, E–25), the ethnographer D.A. Klements, and the Japanese specialist N.A. Nevskii, among others.

N.B. Some of the fonds of Orientalists—particularly those of members and corresponding members of the Academy of Sciences from the 1930s to the 1980s—”were transferred to PFA RAN (E–25).


Working conditions:
Researchers are accomodated in the reading room of the Institute library. Materials are delivered the day they are ordered (no more than 10 items at a time).

Reference facilities:
A card catalogue is being created for materials from creators of individual fonds. The register of fonds available electronically: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (Rus).

Copy facilities:
Facilities are available for photographic copies and microfilm.


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