the USSR Academy of Sciences

Description

The Academy of Sciences, which included Pushkin House and, from 1934, the Pushkin Reserve.

Sub-units

• Pushkin House (Institute of Russian Literature)

In the chronicle

1. 9. The Great Patriotic War

   • …Kalaushin, was head of the museum of Pushkin House — the Institute of Russian Literature of the USSR Academy of Sciences — when the war began. Only a fortnight earlier, on 8 June 1941, he had been at the Pushkin festival in…

2. 10. Pushkin House

   • …worked for more than twenty years in the museum of Pushkin House — the Institute of Literature of the Academy of Sciences — lived through the blockade winter there, looked after the ruined estate of Mikhailovskoye after the war,…
   • …first class, and of dotsent (associate professor), and was sent to the Institute of Literature of the Academy of Sciences — Pushkin House. There he rose from research fellow and head of the exhibitions department to head…
   • On 25 January 1934, at a meeting of the Pushkin Commission of the Academy of Sciences, Kalaushin reported on the museum’s work on the exhibition in Pushkin’s last apartment, at Moika 12; the…
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3. 11. The Artist

   • …the son of the Labinskaya saddler, worked from 1931 at Pushkin House — the Institute of Literature of the Academy of Sciences — where he headed the Literary Museum and, on the institute’s behalf, oversaw the Pushkin Reserve at…

4. 13. Vyacheslav’s Line

   • …Alexander Palace at Tsarskoye Selo (then the town of Pushkin); the ribbon was cut by the President of the Academy of Sciences, Sergey Vavilov. Matvey Matveyevich, then “head of the…

5. 14. Sources and Further Research

   • St Petersburg branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, f. 150 (Institute of Russian Literature): the place to look for M.M. Kalaushin’s personal file (1931–1953);…
   • …Kavkaza, 1982) and his papers, to be sought in the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the Russian Academy of Sciences (the Kunstkamera) and in the archive of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology; blades and scabbards…