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City Museum

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CITY MUSEUM, founded in 1918 based on an earlier museum established in 1908 and situated at 55 Sadovaya Street. The City Museum was accommodated in the Anichkov Palace with the Museum of Old Petersburg as its branch located at 35 Fontanka River Embankment and Countess N. F. Karlova's mansion at 46 Fontanka River Embankment, which was passed over to the museum in 1919. L. A. Ilyin was elected the director and V. Y. Kurbatov the deputy director of the museum in December 1918. It was originally designed as a museum of cities in general rather than a museum of Petrograd. The museum had seven departments and museums: a Department of Architecture and Urban Development, Art Department (Art and the City), Technical Department, Museum of Old Petersburg, Museum of Sanitation and Hygiene, Information and Consultation Department, and the Main Library. The Department of Architecture and Urban Development was the largest and included sections for town planning, construction and landscape gardening. The first expositions were opened in 1922 including the Museum of Old Petersburg, historical premises of the Anichkov Palace, and the first 17 halls of the Architecture Department. A Planning Bureau attached to the museum in 1923 developed the first versions of the draft general plan for the development of Leningrad. The museum was closed in 1935, its exhibits stored in the former Baron A. L. Stieglitz's Technical Drawing School in Solyanoy Settlement.

References: Ильин Л. А. Музей города: К Октябрю 1927: Очерк музея и путеводитель. Л., 1927; Попова Г. А. Музей Города в Аничковом дворце: События, судьбы, коллекции. СПб., 1998.

O. A. Chekanova.

Persons

Ilyin Lev Alexandrovich
Karlova Natalia Fedorovna, Countess
Kurbatov Vladimir Yakovlevich
Stieglitz Alexander Ludwigovich, Baron

Addresses

Fontanka River Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 46
Fontanka River Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 35
Sadovaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 55

Bibliographies

Ильин Л. А. Музей города: К Октябрю 1927: Очерк музея и путеводитель. Л., 1927
Попова Г. А. Музей Города в Аничковом дворце: События, судьбы, коллекции. СПб., 1998

The subject Index

Anichkov Palace
Museum of Old Petersburg
Museum of Hygiene
Stieglitz Central Technical Drawing School

Chronograph

1918

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Ermolaeva Vera Mikhailovna (1893-1937), artist ERMOLAEVA Vera Mikhailovna (1893-1937), painter, graphic artist and book illustrator. She studied at the painting school of Mikhail Bernstein (1911-14) and the Archeology Institute (1914-17)

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Gaush A.F. (1873-1947), curator of the Museum of Old Petersburg, artist GAUSH Alexander Fedorovich (1873, St. Petersburg - 1947), artist, collector, patron of the arts. He graduated from the Academy of Arts (1899), and was a student of P.P. Chistyakov and А. А. Kiselev

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Ilyin L.A. (1880-1942), architect. ILYIN Lev Alexandrovich (1880-1942), architect, Fellow of the Academy of architecture of the USSR (as of 1941). He studied at the College of Civil Engineers (1897-1909) and at the Academy of Fine Arts (1903-04). He was a member of the Old St

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Museum of Old Petersburg MUSEUM OF OLD PETERSBURG, founded in October 1907, attached to the Society of Architects and Artists. A. N. Benois, the first director of the museum, was simultaneously at the head of a special commission for studying and describing St

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St. Petersburg Museum of History STATE ST. PETERSBURG MUSEUM OF HISTORY was established in 1938 as the Museum of History and Development of Leningrad. It is a successor of the City Museum and of the Old St. Petersburg Museum. It was called the Leningrad Museum of History in 1955-91

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