House of Plekhanov, department of Russian Science Library

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HOUSE OF PLEKHANOV (33/1 Forth Krasnoarmeiskaya Street), a sector of the Department of Manuscripts of the Russian Science Library. It was formed in 1928 as Department No. 5 of the State Public Library on the basis of a private library and archives of G.V. Plekhanov that were donated to the Soviet authorities by his widow R.M. Plekhanova-Bograd. In 2002 the House of Plekhanov held 72 private archives, including those of Plekhanov, V.I. Zasulich, L.G. Deutsch, Plekhanova-Bograd, revolutionaries and public figures of the late 19th - early 20th centuries, as well as a number of professors of St. Petersburg Theological Academy; the collection of Church Herald journal editorial office and others. The collection of the House of Plekhanov contains the private library of Plekhanov (over 8,000 volumes, including books with his notes), and numerous memoirs of leaders and participants of revolutionary and social movement in Russia of the late 19th - early 20th centuries. Research assistants of the House of Plekhanov have prepared a number of publications on the heritage of Plekhanov and his supporters. The House of Plekhanov occupies a wing of the former building of the Free Economic Society.

References: Каталог Библиотеки Г. В. Плеханова: В 4 вып. Л., 1965; Стецкевич М. Я. Воспоминания участников общественно-политического и революционно-демократического движения в России: (Аннот. кат. по материалам Дома Плеханова). Л., 1973.

O. N. Ansberg. Deutsch Lev Grigorievich
Plekhanov Georgy Valentinovich
Plekhanova-Bograd Rozalia Mikhailovna
Zasulich Vera Ivanovna
4th Krasnoarmeiskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 1/33
Погодин С. Н. «Русская школа» историков: Н. И. Кареев, И. В. Лучицкий, М. М. Ковалевский. СПб., 1997 Theological Academy
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