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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-264Last update of repository: 18 March 2020Sankt-Peterburgskii gosudarstvennyi muzei teatral'nogo i muzykal'nogo iskusstva (SPbGMTiMI)Kollektsiia fotografii i negativov [Collection of Photographs and Negatives] Website: https://theatremuseum.ru/page/kollekc... Opening hours: Tu 11:00–18:00Holdings Total: 19th–20th cc. photographs and reproductions—over 250,000 units; daguerrotypes—10 units; negatives—ca. 220,000 units This division holds a collection of group and individual portraits of prominent Russian and foreign theater personalia, as well as photographs of scenes from opera, ballet, and theater performances. There are also materials on theater architecture—photographs documenting theater performances abroad; photograph albums; photo- and printed reproductions; newspapers clippings; negatives; documentary films, and other pictorial material on the theater. The largest photographic collections came from the actresses M.G. Savina and V.F. Komissarzhevskaia, actor Iu.M. Iur'ev, ballerina A.P. Pavlova, and opera singer F.I. Chaliapin (Shaliapin). There is a unique collection of photographs of the first performance of Tchaikovsky’s (Chaikovskii’s) ballet, “Sleeping Beauty” (Spiashchaia krasavitsa) in the Mariinskii Theater. There is also a collection of photograph albums, including those that belonged to the director and composer E.F. Napravnik, the singers L.V. Sobinov and M.A. Slavina, and ballet-master M.M. Fokin (Michel Fokine). |
