At present, the catalog includes exemplary scientific descriptions of Cyrillic books of the second half of the 16th century. and publications of the Moscow Printing House of the 17th century. In the presented catalog you can find detailed descriptions of 222 editions (331 copies) of early printed books. Almost every description is supplemented with photographs illustrating the most typical or interesting elements of the design and existence of the item.

The catalog provides information about periodicals from GPIB Russia. The order for these publications is carried out by the periodicals department.

Consolidated electronic catalog “Newspapers of Russia. 1703 - 1917"

A consolidated electronic catalog of newspapers in Russian from 1703 to 1917 inclusive was created as a result of the joint activities of three libraries: the Russian National Library (RNL) in St. Petersburg, the Russian State Library (RSL) and the State Public Historical Library (GPIB) in Moscow. The catalog is based on descriptions of newspapers from the collections of these libraries, which are supplemented by descriptions of newspapers stored in the Scientific Library of the Federal Archives (NB FA), the Sverdlovsk Regional Universal Scientific Library. V. G. Belinsky (SOUNB) in Yekaterinburg.

It includes the following editions:

• newspapers published on the territory of the Russian Empire (within the borders of 1913)
• newspapers published in large cities abroad - Lvov, Chernivtsi, Harbin
• newspapers issued by units of the active armies.

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State Public Historical Library of Russia(GPIB) is the largest Russian scientific library specialized in the field of history. The library is located in Moscow, in Starosadsky pereulok. Director - M.D. Afanasiev.

The right to use the library is available to persons who have reached the age of 18, as well as students of secondary, secondary professional or higher educational institutions who have reached the age of 14.

History

Chertkovskaya Library (1863-1887)

In January 1863, in a specially built wing of the Chertkovs' mansion on Myasnitskaya Street in Moscow, the free public Chertkovskaya Library was opened for public use. It is this date (1863) that is rightfully considered the date of foundation of the GPIB of Russia, which is the successor and heiress of the Chertkovo Library.

The private library of the famous collector and bibliophile, public figure Alexander Dmitrievich Chertkov, created by him as the "General Library of Russia", was the richest collection of books on the history of Russia, archeology, ethnography, geography, statistics, art, religion, law, history and geography of the Slavic peoples, as well as early printed editions and manuscripts. Prior to the formation of the department "Rossica" in the Imperial Public Library in St. Petersburg, this was the only collection of books devoted to the study of the history of Russia and the Slavic peoples. The library funds were disclosed in printed catalogs compiled by the owner himself (1838, 1845). The Chertkovsky Library was used by Vasily Zhukovsky, Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, Mikhail Pogodin, Leo Tolstoy and other prominent writers, publicists and scientists.

After the death of the collector, his work was continued by his son and heir - Grigory Alexandrovich Chertkov (1832-1900), who continued to replenish the book collection and made it publicly available.

From 1859 to 1872, the well-known historian, bibliographer, archeographer and publisher Pyotr Ivanovich Bartenev was in charge of the library. P. I. Bartenev compiled and published the third edition of the catalog of the Chertkovo Library (1863). When the library was founded and published from 1863 to 1873 one of the best historical journals of the nineteenth century - "Russian archive".

In 1871, in connection with moving to St. Petersburg, G. A. Chertkov decided to sell the Moscow mansion. The book collection was donated by him to the city of Moscow.

In 1872-1887. The Chertkovskaya library was housed in the Rumyantsev Museum in the Pashkov House. Elpidifor Vasilyevich Barsov was in charge of the library. The Chertkovo city public library was under the jurisdiction of the Moscow city government until 1887, when it was transferred to the Imperial Russian Historical Museum. The city treasury continued financing the replenishment of its funds until 1917.

Library of the Historical Museum (1887-1938)

The library of the Historical Museum was mainly replenished by donations and purchases of book collections, of which the most significant belonged to the son-in-law of A. D. Chertkov - Prince Alexander Nikolayevich Golitsyn (1830-1911), M. D. Khmyrov, A. I. Baryatinsky, A. P. Bakhrushin, K. K. Hertz, I. E. Zabelin, N. V. Muravyov-Karssky, P. V. Shchapov. Then the exchange with foreign libraries began, and later the Soviet authorities replenished the library fund with confiscated books.

Moving to Starosadsky Lane (1938)

At the end of 1937, the director of the United Library (IKP) I. G. Semenychev, concerned about the fate of the library he created in connection with the liquidation of the IKP, wrote a letter to I. V. Stalin with a proposal to create a large public historical library by merging the library of the IKP and the library of the State Historical museum (GIM). At the end of January 1938, I. G. Semenychev received a call from the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) and was invited to the department of propaganda and agitation for a conversation. In the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, I. G. Semyonychev was informed that the idea of ​​creating a historical library by Comrade Stalin was "approved in principle."

According to archival documents, in February 1938 - January 1939. The top party leadership of the USSR - members of the Politburo and the Organizing Bureau of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks - 12 times considered the opening of the Historical Library. Documents on the organization of the GPIB, identified in the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History (RGASPI), were signed by A. A. Andreev, N. I. Ezhov, A. A. Zhdanov, L. M. Kaganovich, V. M. Molotov, I V. Stalin and other top party functionaries. Such an unprecedented interest of party officials in the opening of the library was explained simply - this issue was controlled by I. V. Stalin.

The Decree of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks dated March 11, 1938 “On the Organization of the State Public Historical Library in Moscow” provided for the opening of the library by July 1, 1938. Later, on May 28, 1938, the Council of People’s Commissars of the RSFSR adopted Decree No. 143 “On opening of the State Public Historical Library in Moscow”. Subsequently, the opening date of the library was postponed several times.

The most acute problem with the opening of the library was the lack of free space for its placement. The red tape with the provision of a building for its accommodation lasted more than 4 months. Various options were considered - the superstructure of the Manezh building, the provision of the House of Unions (without the Hall of Columns), part of the building of the Polytechnic Museum, other premises were proposed, for the most part obviously unsuitable for accommodating the library. According to the memoirs of I. G. Semenychev, more than 20 options were considered in total. Finally, in early August 1938, the final choice fell on the building of the former Moscow Auxiliary Society of Merchants in Starosadsky Lane, built in 1902-1917. in the former possessions of the city estate of the Kumanins (relatives of F. M. Dostoevsky). The complex of brick buildings of 3 - 5 floors had a total area of ​​more than 6.5 thousand square meters. The chosen premises were inspected and approved by N. K. Krupskaya, its provision was formalized by the decision of the Organizing Bureau of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks. School No. 329 of the Krasnogvardeisky RONO, which was located here, was hastily relocated to a typical school building nearby, 2 weeks before the start of the school year. The Moscow City Council, as compensation, received from the RSFSR Council of People's Commissars funds and funds of building materials for the construction of a school building.

The building provided by GPIB was in a rather neglected condition and needed repair and refurbishment. Simultaneously with the repair work, the transportation of the book stock and equipment of the State Historical Museum Library was going on. In the period from September 8 to 30, 1938, 165 trucks with books (51,774 packs) and 120 trucks with library equipment were transported from the State Historical Museum. In an extremely short period of time, the library administration and staff managed to do the almost unbelievable - to prepare the premises, transport and place the funds of the merged libraries, and create conditions for the work of readers.

State Public Historical Library of the RSFSR (1938-1991)

The grand opening of the library took place on December 20, 1938, and on December 21, it began to serve readers. A library card with number 1 was received by Yelena Chistyakova, a student of the Faculty of History of Moscow University, who came to the opening of the library in the morning. Subsequently, Elena Ioasafovna Druzhinina (Chistyakova), Doctor of Historical Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, had library card No. 1 for life.

The first months of the library's work showed that it could not work and develop normally on the available space. In addition, it turned out that in accordance with the General Plan for the Reconstruction of Moscow, the main building of the library, facing Starosadsky Lane, was subject to demolition, as it went beyond the new “red” line of the highway planned here. Soon a project was drawn up for a new library building with a total area of ​​11,500 square meters. m. The building was planned to be built nearby, on the site of the Church of St. Vladimir in the Old Gardens. Preparatory earthworks and the delivery of building materials began. The implementation of this project was prevented by the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War.

Library during the war years (1941-1945)

The work of the branch of the library in hospital No. 2939, which began work on January 13, 1942, was later recognized by the Political Directorate of the Red Army as one of the best.

The “underground” branch of the library at the Kurskaya metro station of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line, which served passengers of the Moscow metro and Muscovites who took refuge in the metro from night bombings, was very popular.

In the summer of 1944, a summer branch of the library was opened in the Central Park of Culture and Leisure named after. Gorky. The summer reading room worked at the Central Park of Culture and Culture until the end of the 1960s. and deservedly enjoyed the love of Muscovites. In 1944-1945. 44 library staff were awarded the medal "For the Defense of Moscow".

In the postwar years

In the post-war years, the library has been actively developing: a collection profile is being developed, in addition to the obligatory copy of domestic publications, foreign literature begins to enter its collections through book exchange, and the collections are being replenished with second-hand books. The unsorted fund transferred in 1938 from the Historical Museum is being mastered. The library fund receives "trophy" literature from Germany.

For optimal placement of funds on the available space, the book storage department was equipped with compact storage racks. Work was completed on the creation of a unified general alphabetical catalog for the library fund (at the time of opening in 1938, the library had diverse and incomplete catalogs for individual parts of the fund). A systematic catalog has been created according to a specially developed classification scheme.

For a long period of time, the Historical Library was one of the few places in Moscow where an interested reader could freely obtain literature on the history of Christianity and other world religions, satisfy their interests in the field of genealogy, heraldry and other, not quite “official” disciplines.

Among the library staff there were many people with "wrong" biography, rejected by other scientific institutions in Moscow.

Library in the 1980s - 1990s

The active acquisition of the library's funds led to a critical overload of the book depository building. For the rational allocation of funds in 1984-1988. a seven-story new library building was built - an extension to an existing book depository building. After the completion of construction, a newly organized specialized department of periodicals was placed in the new building, including a reading room with an auxiliary fund and open access, depositories of newspapers and magazines, a bibliographic point for fulfilling readers' requests.

With the beginning of perestroika and the change in the socio-economic situation in the country, the Historical Library acquires new social functions and radically changes the old ones. The library has organized a non-traditional press sector, the purpose of which is to collect materials from new political parties and movements. Literature from the former "special store" is transferred to the general fund and is reflected in the reader's catalogs. On the basis of the unique emigrant collection of the former colonel of the White Army Ya. M. Lisovoy, a department of Russian abroad was formed. The library actively develops publishing activities.

In 1991, the library became officially known as the State Public Historical Library of Russia.

In the 1990s a number of projects were implemented in the field of scientific bibliography: volumes of an annotated bibliographic index "Soviet society in memoirs and diaries" were prepared, and an index "Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin" was published. In 1990-2006 Together with Stanford University (USA), a large-scale project was implemented to create an annotated bibliographic index "Russia and Russian emigration in memoirs and diaries".

Library directors

• (1933-1937) Stavskaya, Faina Efremovna (1890-1937)
• (1937-1938) Vilenskaya, Maria Yakovlevna (1903-1975)
• (1938-1939) Yakovlev, Nikolai Nikiforovich (1898-1970)
• (1939-1954) Leontiev, Mikhail Fedorovich (1897-1986)
• (1955-1960) Lesyuk, Evgeny Timofeevich (1912-1980)
• (1960-1963) Malakhov, Alexander Ivanovich (1926-2003)
• (1964-1988) Kurantseva, Klavdia Pavlovna (1921-1992)
• since 1989 Afanasiev Mikhail Dmitrievich

Library structure

Reading rooms

• General reading room (room number 1)
• Hall of National History (Hall No. 2)
• Cabinet of the East (hall number 3)
• Hall of General History (Hall No. 4)
• Teacher Service Hall (Hall No. 5)

Specialized funds and departments

• Department of periodicals
• Reference and bibliographic department
• Department of Funds of the Russian Diaspora
• Department of rare books
• Department of electronic delivery and subscription service
• Non-traditional printing sector
• Exhibition of new arrivals

Library departments

• Department of Domestic Acquisition
• Department of Foreign Acquisition and International Book Exchange
• Department of Literature Processing and Alphabetical Catalogs
• Department of systematic and subject catalogs
• Literature storage department
• Scientific and bibliographic department
• Library Marketing Department
• Department of exchange and reserve fund
• Sector of Hygiene and Restoration

Library today

Today the Historical Library is one of the most visited and popular libraries in Moscow.

In addition to preserving the traditional forms of serving readers, the library is actively developing new forms of library services, is working to transfer its collections and catalogs to digital form. At the service of readers is a 24-hour online literature ordering system on the library website, which allows Internet users to order the literature they need, presented in electronic catalogs, without leaving their homes on any day convenient for them. The library has an electronic literature delivery service for remote users.

At present, on the basis of the digitized funds of the State Public Historical Library, an open electronic library has been created - BIBLIOPHIKA. At the moment BIBLIOPHIKA contains 1928 volumes (622672 pages) from the collections of the GPIB, published before 1917. It includes the laws of the Russian Empire, sources on the history, geography and ethnography of Russia, books on genealogy, heraldry, cultural history.

In addition to carrying out its main functions (collection and storage of printed and written works for public use, reference and bibliographic work), the library organizes exhibitions, conducts seminars and conferences, and carries out publishing activities.

Statistics (2011)

• Volume of funds - 3 437 881
• New arrivals - 34 251
• Database size - 2 544 400
• Number of seats for users - 439
• Number of registered users - 41 313
• Attendance - 233 167
• Issuance of documents - 1 346 076
• Bibliography references and consultations - 75 920
• Computers - 252
• Library site visits - 1,109,288

Notes

Bibliography

• Afanasiev, M. D. State Public Historical Library of Russia // Library Encyclopedia. - M., 2007. - S. 315-317.
• Shaposhnikov, K. A. Chertkovskaya Library under the jurisdiction of the Moscow City Public Administration (1871 - 1887): according to the documents of the Central Historical Archive of Moscow // Chertkovskaya readings: materials of the first scientific conference, 26 - 27 September. 2011 - M., 2012. - S. 37 - 61. - ISBN 978-585209-295-3.
• Shaposhnikov, K. A. From the history of the Chertkovo library. Archival documents on the transfer of the Chertkovskaya Library to the ownership of the Moscow City Public Administration (1871 - 1873) // Scientific and Technical Libraries. - 2012. - No. 9. - S. 69 - 84.
• Kostyunina, N.V. Library of the Imperial Russian Historical Museum in Moscow, 1883-1938. // Library and History: Sat. materials of the international scientific conf., 18 - 19 Nov. 2008 - M., 2010. - S. 84 - 96.
• Stanyukovich, L. B. Moscow Historical Museum and its library // Treasury of the book: anniversary. Sat. scientific tr. - Part 1. - M., 1987. - S. 4 - 14.
• Ugryumova, E. S. History of the Library of the Historical Museum // Historical Museum - an encyclopedia of national history and culture. - M., 1995. - S. 63 - 71.
• Semenychev I.G. How the State Public Historical Library was born: From personal. memoirs / Publ., entry. Art. and after. I.A. Guzeeva // Bibliography. - 1999. - No. 3. - S. 99 - 105: ill.
• Archival documents testify ...: the history of the opening of the State Public Historical Library (1938-1939): Sat. documents / auth. K. A. Shaposhnikov; scientific ed. M. D. Afanasiev; State. publ. ist. library of Russia. - M., 2011. - 360 p. - (To the 150th anniversary of the Chertkovo Library). - ISBN 978-5-85209-265-6
• State Public Historical Library of Russia for 70 years (1938-2008): pages of history / State. publ. ist. library of Russia; auth.-stat. K.A. Shaposhnikov; scientific ed. M.D. Afanasiev. - M.: State Public Historical Library of Russia, 2008. - 20, p.: ill., port. - ISBN 978-5-85209-232-8.
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• Shaposhnikov, K. A. How the Historical Library was Created: Documentary Chronicle (Based on the Materials of the State Archives of the Russian Federation, RGASPI and the Archive of the President of the Russian Federation) // Library and History: Sat. materials of the international scientific conf., 18 - 19 Nov. 2008 - M., 2010. - S. 45 - 72.
• Shaposhnikov, K. A. The first director of the Historical Library // Bibliography. - 2008. - No. 3. - S. 130-137
• Shaposhnikov, K. A. Documents of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks on the organization and opening of the GPIB / publ., prepared. text, comments K. A. Shaposhnikov // Bibliography. - 2009.- No. 1. - S. 79 - 91.
• Shaposhnikov, K. A. Archival documents on the provision of a legal deposit for the State Public Historical Library (1938-1939) // State Bibliography, Print Statistics, Book Studies and the Russian Book Chamber: Past, Present and Future: Sat. Art. - M., 2012. - S. 200-207.
• Shaposhnikov, K. A. Employees of the Historical Library in the People's Militia: Documentary Chronicle / K. A. Shaposhnikov; State. publ. ist. library of Russia. - M., 2010. - 30 p.; 8 s. ill. - (To the 65th anniversary of the Great Victory). - ISBN 978-5-85209-255-7.
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The first building on this site, about which information was found, dates back to the end of the 17th century. At that time, it was owned by Yakov Baibakov, “the clerk of the Pomernaya hut” - a state institution where bulk goods intended for sale were measured and taken into account. After Baibakov, the site was not lucky: the owners were constantly changing, the buildings often burned out.

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From 1938 to this day, the Historical Library has been located in the building on Starosadsky Lane. On its funds, based on the book collections of many remarkable literary critics and collectors of books, more than one generation of historians, local historians, and history teachers has grown up. The basis of this collection was the library collected by the historian and archaeologist A.D. Chertkov at the beginning of the 19th century. They also contain several famous book collections of the century before last - Prince A.I. Baryatinsky, consisting of six different libraries acquired by the prince in different years; libraries of archaeologist P.M. Stroev, orientalist A.I. Gulyanov, ethnographer A.F. Gilferding; the library of the Moscow collector A.P. Bakhrushin, in which there are many books on the history of Moscow; collection of the famous historian. A wonderful and original collection of M.D. Khmyrov, who spared no expense to purchase periodicals, which he selected on various topics. Libraries of K.K. Hertz (books on art criticism), N.I. Muravyov-Karsky (military affairs), A.A. Kotlyarevsky (mythology, ethnography). In the same 1938, the funds of the library of the Institute of Red Professors, a special higher educational institution under the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, were merged here to train the highest ideological cadres of the party and teachers of social sciences in universities. Now the funds of the Historical Library have more than four million items.
In the mid-1980s, a new building in the style of the architecture of this period, made of glass and concrete, was added to the historical building "Istorichki". It housed the department of periodicals. In the same building in February 1990, the local history commission "Old Moscow" resumed its meetings, which unites Moscow historians and lovers of Moscow antiquity. It is headed by the writer and local historian V.B. Muravyov.

During the restoration of 2015-2016. the load-bearing structures of the building were reinforced, the white-stone volumes of the 18th century were restored, the facades were cleared, the brickwork, the main entrance portal and the roof parapets were restored. The front staircase appeared in its original form. During its restoration, remarkable metal griffins were discovered, hidden under old wooden panels. The historical layout and decoration of the premises was also restored, important elements of the interior were recreated.

In 2017, the building of the State Historical Library became a laureate of the Moscow Government competition "Moscow Restoration" in the nominations "Best Restoration/Adaptation Project" and "High Quality of Repair and Restoration Works".