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Last update of repository: 15 March 2020

Institut mirovoi literatury im. A.M. Gor'kogo RAN (IMLI)


Otdel rukopisei
[Division of Manuscripts]

Telephone: +7 495 691-03-05

Reading room: +7 495 691-03-05

E-mail: [email protected]

Website: http://imli.ru/index.php/otdel-rukopisej

Opening hours: RdngRm: M (taking orders) 12:00–17:00, TuTh 12:00–17:00 (15 July–15 September closed)

Head: Dar'ia Sergeevna Moskovskaia (tel. +7 495 691-03-05)

Head of Sector: Mikhail Aramisovich Aivazian (tel. +7 495 691-03-05)

Scientific Secretary, Head of Reading Room: Maksim L'vovich Fedorov (tel. +7 495 691-03-05)


Holdings

Total: 637 fonds; 112,557 units; 1772–1980s
personal fonds—591; fonds of literary organisations—28; collections—18 fonds, over 120,000 units

The Manuscript Division, earlier known as the Archive of Soviet and Foreign Writers, retains rich materials on Soviet literature, the literature of nations of the former Soviet Union, and literature of foreign countries. Among the largest fonds are the personal papers of literary figures of the postrevolutionary period, such as I.E. Babel', E.G. Bagritskii (1,150 units), D. Bednyi (3,400 units), I.A. Bunin, A.P. Chapygin, S.A. Esenin (Yesenin) (624 units), D.A. Furmanov (25,000 units), A.G. Malyshkin, B.L. Pasternak (300 units), A.N. Tolstoi (10,000 units), E.I. Zamiatin, and P.I. Zamoiskii, and many others. Among the documentation of foreign writers are fonds of Henri Barbusse, Romain Rolland, Johannes Becher, Bertold Brecht, Erik Mühsam, and Louis Aragon.
        There are some records of literary journals and organizations, which include correspondence with foreign writers. These include fonds of the International Association of Revolutionary Writers, or MORP (Mezhdunarodnoe ob"edinenie revoliutsionnykh pisatelei) (1931–1935), the All-Russian Association of Proletarian Writers (VAPP), the Russian Association of Proletarian Writers (RAPP), the Organizing Committee of the Union of Soviet Writers, and the All-Russian Society of Peasant Writers (VOKP). The repository also retains the Archive of the All-Russian Union of Writers, going back to the 1920s.
        The archive contains the editorial records of literary publishing houses, such as the State Publishing House under the People’s Commissariat of Education (Gosizdat, and later OGIZ), and the Publishing House of Foreign Workers in the USSR, and journals, such as Krasnaia niva, Literaturnoe nasledstvo, Internatsional'naia literatura, and Novyi mir, among others.
        There are a number of collections of documents relating to Soviet and foreign literatures (English, American, French, Polish, Ukrainian, and Armenian), and also special collections entitled “Personalities of Literature and Art” (Deiateli literatury i iskusstva), “Verses of Various Authors,” “Autobiographies of Writers and Bibliographic Information,” and “Personalities of the Revolutionary Movement.”
        The division has a collection of more than 10,000 photographic negatives and a large fond of artistic illustrations—portraits, engravings, etchings, and drawings relating to twentieth-century literature.

N.B. Earlier the division had an extensive collection of Slavic manuscript books and fonds relating to prerevolutionary literature, but in connection with the reorganization of the Institute in 1951, these materials were transferred to Pushkin House in Leningrad (see E–28).


Working conditions:
10 units can be ordered only once. More details on: http://imli.ru/index.php/otdel-rukopi....

Reference facilities:
There are opisi for manuscript materials, card catalogues for fonds of negatives and photographs, and auxiliary reference catalogues and card files.
        The catalogue of manuscripts from the Division of Manuscripts and Gor'kii Archive with images of some documents are available on the website: http://rukopisi.imli.ru/. The list of fonds of the Division of Manuscripts is also available on the website: http://isaran.ru/?q=ru/funds&ida=4

Copy facilities:
It is possible to order photographs and xerox copies, with the permission of the Scientific Council and the directorate of the Institute.


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