Author: Various
Title: Otchet Imperatorskago Moskovskago I Rumiantsovskago Muzeia Za 1914 God, Predstavlennyi Direktorom Muzeia G Ministru Narodnago Prosveshcheniia (Report of the Imperial Moscow and Rumiantsev Museum for 1914, Presented by the Director of the Museum to the Minister of Education)
Description: Moskva (Moscow): Tipografiia T-go Doma L. A. Malekhonov i Ko. 1916. Hardcover. First edition; 9 x 6 1/2; pp. [7], 8-203; rebound in 3/4 blue cloth and green paper over boards; rubbed spots along edges of boards and some scratches to paper; two stamps of the Academy of Architecture library to title page and a small blank envelope to back board verso; illustrated with numerous plates; very good- condition. Count Nikolai Petrovich Rumiantsev (1754 – 1826) was Minister of Commerce and Foreign Minister in the period leading up to Napoleon's invasion of Russia, from 1808 until 1812. He was also a voracious collector, amassing an enormous collection of coins, maps, and over 28 000 books, manuscripts, and historical documents. The last of his family, he bequeathed them to the Ministry of Education after his death. Emperor Nicholas I issued a decree on the establishment of the Rumyantsev Museum in 1828 and it opened its doors in 1831, occupying the Rumyantsev House on English Quay in St. Petersburg. It became affiliated with the Imperial Public Library in 1845. The museum was relocated to Moscow in 1861, to the Pashkov House opposite the Kremlin, becoming Moscow's first public museum. It was renamed the Imperial Moscow and Rumiantsev Museum in 1913, while new acquisitions were continuously added to the existing inventory. In 1924, the Soviet Government decided to shut the museum down, splitting the collections and transferring them to the Lenin State Library of the USSR, the Tretyakov Gallery, the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, and others. The current volume covered a turbulent period, the beginning of the First World War, which had put a great strain on the staff and operations of the museum, hitting especially hard the library, where most employees had been drafted. It included a breakdown of the number of visitors and researchers from various nationalities, financial reports, and obituaries of members of the museum. It also prominently featured detailed bibliographical descriptions of new acquisitions in the various departments, including books, manuscripts, personal documents, objects of art, etc. Apparently, two other small pamphlets with a catalog of the Elzevir editions in the library and the letters of Turgenev to Countess Lambert were published simultaneously with the current one (not present). Ill.: 0. 2.

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