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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-38Last update of repository: 16 March 2020Sergievo-Posadskii gosudarstvennyi istoriko-khudozhestvennyi muzei-zapovednik (Sergiev Posad, Moscow Oblast)Holdings inventories of Church property—9 units (1641–1908); scientific-tekhnical documentation—920 units (1938–1989) The museum collections are based on the treasures of the Trinity-St. Sergius Monastery (Troitse-Sergieva Lavra), although the largest part of the holdings was removed in the 1920s and early 1930s. Particularly important among the archival remains are a series of inventories of monastic property from the mid-seventeenth to the early twentieth century, including property endowment registers (vkladnye knigi), revenue books (kormovye knigi), and descriptive inventories of monastery properties. The earliest existing text is an inventory of all the buildings and properties of the Trinity Monastery in 1641. There are two copies of a 1673 property endowment register, containing information regarding the unique collection of early Russian art (late 14th–mid-17th cc.). There is also a 1735 inventory of property of the churches and sacristy treasury—“Rospisnye knigi ili opis' imushchestva tserkvei i riznoi kazny”—and another 1842 treasury inventory—“Glavnaia riznichnaia opis' sv. Troitskiia Sergieva Lavra ili opisanie tserkovnykh utvarei, oblachenii i drugikh predmetov.” There is also a 1908 inventory of the transfer of Church valuables from the sacristy to the custody of the Commission for the Preservation of Monuments of Art and Antiquity of the former Trinity Lavra. The museum retains a collection of manuscripts and old-printed books of a religious character (http://www.museum-sp.ru/collection/is...). Most important among them are illuminated manuscripts of the sixteenth century, including two Gospels of Deacon Iona Zui and Archimandrite ofthe Trinity Merkurii Dmitrovets, and also a Book of the Apostles of Moscow Metropolitan Ioasaf. There is also a late fifteenth-century Gospel from the Nikolo-Pesnoshskii Monastery, a 1674 sinodik from the Trinity Monastery, and a 1680 monastery sinodik, which was copied from a 1575 sinodik by order of the boyar B.M. Khitrovo. A number of documents remain (either in original or copy) that were used for exhibition purposes during the Soviet period, especially for the anti-religious exhibits of the monastery. These include a few charters of privilege addressed to the monastery, including those from as early as the fifteenth century regarding proprietory rights to saltworks and fish products, scattered documents relating to the juridical and economic affairs of the monastery (16th–17th cc.), official extracts from income-expense registers (prikhodo-raskhodnye knigi) of the Joseph of Volokolamsk (Iosifo-Volokolamskii) Monastery from 1594 regarding peasant disturbances, various eighteenth-century charters of petitioninvolving protests, documents relating to usurious activities of monks and loans to peasants and traders, and petitions to the troops of Stepan Razin. There are some collected materials of Old Believer origin, including an 1884 polemical “History of the Russian Church” and talesof the Murom cycle. The museum retains some materials collected during expeditions in the 1950s to study popular handicrafts in Central Russia (Vologda, Kostroma, Gor'kii, Tula, and other oblasts), and also conferences appraising the results of those expeditions. There are some materials from expeditions through Moscow Oblast to appraise early centers of ceramic production (1978–1985). Among graphic materials are original architectural drawings and plans for various buildings within the monastery, along with plans and projects for restoration in various periods (http://www.museum-sp.ru/collection/is...). There is a special collection of graphic representations (engravings and lithographs) of the Moscow Kremlin and local life of the people by the Italian artist Francesco Camporesi. The museum photograph archive includes negative and positive prints of photographs of its collections. |
