title: Letter from the old Bolshevik M. S. Olminsky to the Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of the RSFSR V. I. Lenin on the issue of ensuring the safety of the valuables of the Armory Chamber of the Moscow Kremlin (May 7, 1922)
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metadata.value: Krapivin, Mikhail Yu.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2023-12-04T17:12:06Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2023-12-04T17:12:06Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-06
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metadata.value: Krapivin M. Yu. 2023. Letter from the old Bolshevik M. S. Olminsky to the Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of the RSFSR V. I. Lenin on the issue of ensuring the safety of the valuables of the Armory Chamber of the Moscow Kremlin (May 7, 1922). The Issues of Museology 14 (1): 17–36. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu27.2023.102 (In Russian)
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu27.2023.102
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/44439
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: In the autumn of 1921 — in the spring of 1922, the Soviet government initiated a large-scale
  confiscation campaign. The jewels brought to Moscow from all over the country were destined
  for subsequent sale on the foreign market. Seizures were made (among other things) from
  operating liturgical buildings and prayer rooms of various denominations, as well as from
  some museums. Employees of the Main Committee for Museum Affairs and the Protection of
  Ancient Art and Nature Monuments of the People’s Commissariat for Education of the RSFSR
  took part in the seizure procedure. Museum workers interpreted the normative documents in
  force at that time as the right of the museum community to fundamentally influence the course
  and scale of the confiscation process (up to the right of veto). Party and Soviet functionaries
  were convinced that among the museum workers there were many persons closely associated
  with church circles, counter-revolutionary seeking to disrupt the work of seizing church gold.
  On May 7, 1922, in the midst of a “conflict” between museum staff and state structures, the
  chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of the RSFSR V. I. Lenin receives a letter from
  M. S. Olminsky, one of the oldest figures in the Russian revolutionary movement, about the
  need to prevent the possibility of theft of the values of the Armory Chamber of the Moscow
  Kremlin by museum workers. For the first time we publish 6 documents concerning the discussion.
  These documents were found in the Russian State Archive of Contemporary History
  among the materials of one of the “thematic folders” of the Politburo of the Central Committee
  of the RKP(b) — VKP(b) — CPSU: 21st “group of documents”. The archivalsources clarify
  the role played by the Glavmuseum (and its local branches) in saving the country’s cultural
  heritage during the large-scale confiscation measures of 1921–1922.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: The Issues of Museology;Volume 14; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: hunger
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Commission for Accounting and Concentration of values
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Central commission on withdrawal of church values
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: State depository of values of the People’s Commissariat of Finance of the RSFSR (Gokhran)
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Main Committee for the Affairs of Museums and the Preservation of Monuments of Old Art and Nature of the People’s Commissariat for Education of the RSFSR (Glavmuseum)
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Grand Kremlin Palace
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Armouries
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Letter from the old Bolshevik M. S. Olminsky to the Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of the RSFSR V. I. Lenin on the issue of ensuring the safety of the valuables of the Armory Chamber of the Moscow Kremlin (May 7, 1922)
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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