Pushkin House (Institute of Russian Literature)

Description

The Institute of Russian Literature of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Leningrad; Matvey Matveyevich Kalaushin headed its Literary Museum.

Part of

the USSR Academy of Sciences

Kalaushins in Pushkin House (Institute of Russian Literature)

Family works in the collection3

• A.P. Chekhov in Portraits, Illustrations and Documents — inscribed by M.M. Kalaushin to V.A. Manuylov1958-03-27Matvey Matveyevich118/6/3 (каталог, № 377)
• Pushkin and His Time, issue 1 (editor-in-chief, 1962)1962Matvey Matveyevich
• Pushkin and His Time, issue 1 — inscribed by M.M. Kalaushin to B.P. Gorodetsky1963-02-10Matvey Matveyevich97/2/238 (каталог, № 376)

Awards

• Rank of research fellow, first class, and of dotsentMatvey Matveyevich1931◈ published source

Documents and photographs

In the chronicle

1. 9. The Great Patriotic War

   • Boris Aleksandrovich’s cousin, Matvey Matveyevich 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…
   • In the Siege winter of 1941–1942 Matvey Matveyevich acted as commandant of Pushkin House. According to the recollections of a member of the Institute’s staff, N.N. Fonyakova, he was responsible for…
   • From 1934 Matvey Matveyevich had been the curator of the Pushkin Reserve on behalf of Pushkin House. In late autumn 1944 he came to the liberated Mikhailovskoye, looked everything over, paid…
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2. 10. Pushkin House

   • …museums. Matvey Matveyevich Kalaushin 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…
   • …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 of the Literary…
   • …by the Leningrad City Soviet on 9 January 1938) was made by S.S. Geychenko, who had moved to the museum of Pushkin House from the Russian Museum. With Kalaushin he prepared an exhibition on Mayakovsky and travelled on special…
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3. 11. The Artist

   • …6 August 1929. His father, 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…
   • …of the war in besieged Leningrad. In the Siege winter of 1941–42 Matvey Matveyevich, head of the Pushkin House museum, served as the institute’s commandant; in July 1942 he was sent to Tashkent, escorting a train with…
   • …Matveyevich. On the morning of 12 April Geychenko set out for Pskov with L.N. Nazarova of Pushkin House and the fifteen-year-old Boris, who was travelling “to sketch the ruined Pushkin monuments”. Every station…

4. 12. The Chroniclers

   • …and Matvey Matveyevich was not the director of the Pushkin Reserve — he supervised the Reserve on behalf of Pushkin House, it was on his recommendation that S.S. Geychenko became its director in 1945, and on 10 June 1949 Matvey…
   • … devoted his life to literary museums. He supervised the Pushkin Reserve on behalf of Pushkin House, and in 1945 recommended S.S. Geychenko as its director — “No one argued harder for sending me to the…
   • …generations; 19th-century service and the Convoy; the masters and officers of 1860–1917; the 20th century; Pushkin House and the St Petersburg branch; the surname; and the historical context. The rule was strict: for every…

5. 13. Vyacheslav’s Line

   • …second cousin, Matvey Matveyevich Kalaushin, looked after the Pushkin Reserve on behalf of Pushkin House from 1934; on his recommendation Semyon Geychenko was appointed director of the Reserve in 1945…

6. 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); here too is the correspondence on the…
   • Research archive of the Pushkin Reserve — Order No. 59 of the Institute of Russian Literature of 15 April 1945 appointing S.S. Geychenko; the plan of the German fortifications of 1943–1944 at…

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