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Last update of repository: 15 March 2020

Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi pedagogicheskii universitet im. A.I. Gertsena (RGPU)


Muzei istorii
[Museum of History]

Address: 191186, St. Petersburg, nab. r. Moiki, 48, korp. 20a, 3d floor

Telephone: +7 812 571-71-54

E-mail: [email protected]

Website: https://www.herzen.spb.ru/main/struct...;  http://www.museum.ru/M204

Opening hours: TuWF 10:00–16:00

Director of Museum: Ekaterina Matveevna Kolosova (tel. +7 812 571-71-54); e-mail [email protected]

Main Curator of Fonds: Natal'ia Viktorovna Andreeva (tel. +7 812 571-71-54); e-mail [email protected]


Holdings

Total: 30,000 units; 1887–1990s
photo albums—113 units (1872–1993); photographs—ca. 5,000 units (1872–1994); negatives—ca. 4,000 units (1930s–1990s); posters—19 units (1918–1994); films—2 units (1990s); prints—2 units (1924, 1974); leaflets—10 units (1940s); phonograms—10 units (1970s); personal papers—ca. 2,000 units (1918–1944); drawings—26 units (1930s–1990s)

The museum holds documents and records on the history of the University and its precursors. There are documents from the very first institution, the St. Petersburg Foundling Home (1770–1837), and from all the other various institutions that preceded the A.I. Hertsen University: the Emperor Nicholas I Institute for Orphans; the Pedagogical Institute for Women, which was founded in 1903 and which from 1918 to 1921 was known as the First Petrograd Pedagogical Institute; the M.N. Pokrovskii Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute (Leningradskii gosudarstvennyi pedagogicheskii institut im. M.N. Pokrovskogo) (1937–1957); the Teacher Training Institute (Uchitel'skii institut), which was founded in 1872, and which from 1918 was known as the Second Petrograd Pedagogical Institute; the Third Petrograd Pedagogical Institute (1918–1920); the Petrograd Institute of Preschool Education, which from 1872 to 1918 had been known as the Froebel Society Teacher Training Courses (Pedagogicheskie kursy Frebelevskogo obshchestva) and which in 1925 became part of the LGPI; and the Academy of Psychiatry and Neurology Institute of Pediatrics and Physical Disabilities (1921–1925). The holdings include documents on the founding and reorganization of the institutes and on the work of the various faculties and departments; announcements listing the admittance of students; documents showing the academic and social work of the university including students notebooks, graduation certificates, curricula and syllabi, teaching aids, and summaries of lectures and textbooks; recollections of lecturers and students; and photographic albums.
        There are personal papers of a number of professors, including the literary scholars N.P. Grinkova (1895–1961) and F.P. Filin (1908–1982); specialists on teaching natural science, including P.I. Borovitskii (1896–1966), S.A. Pavlovich (1884–1966), and V.N. Verkhovskii (1873–1947); corresponding members of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences A.P. Pinkevich (1884–1939), E.Ia. Golant (1888–1971), and Sh.I. Ganelin (1894–1974); the teaching specialist, V.N. Soroko-Rosinskii (1882–1960); the child disability specialist B.I. Kovalenko (1890–1969); and the director of the LGPI museum A.A. Akhaian (1908–1976).
        There are photographs, including some from the archive of the K.D. Ushinskii family.


Working conditions:
Researchers are accommodated in the museum offices, where materials are available the day they are ordered.

Reference facilities:
There is a card catalogue. There are registers of acquisitions to the main and the auxiliary fonds, and journals listing graphic materials, postcards, posters, postage stamps, albums, gifts, charters, photographic materials, and archival documents.

Copy facilities:
Xerox copies can be prepared.


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