title: Alexander Benois Archive: Collection and Distribution
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metadata.value: Kryshtaleva, M. K.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-06-30T10:49:16Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-06-30T10:49:16Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-03
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Kryshtaleva M. K. ‘Alexander Benois Archive: Collection and Distribution’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 12, no. 1, 2022, pp. 173–184.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu24.2022.110
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/37030
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: Art historian, artist, and critic Alexander Nikolaevich Benois (1870–1960) collected and systematized
  his archive both before and after emigration from Leningrad to Paris in 1926. According to his own assessments
  and according to contemporaries, the materials contained in the archive are valuable for studying the
  history of art culture at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and as sources for the history of Russian
  emigration in the first half of the twentieth century. Research and exhibitions devoted to the biography and work of Benois, as a rule, focus on his activities until the autumn of 1926 and narrate the artist’s activities in emigration,
  not appealing to archival materials of this period. During 34 years of emigration, part of the archive, partially transported
  from Leningrad, was replenished with new materials of a personal and professional nature. His personal
  archive became part of the museum’s collections during his lifetime, and after his death it was distributed among
  several more storage locations in Russia and the United States, still partially remaining in the family. Information
  about the archival heritage of Benois is extremely scattered, which might explain their insufficient coverage in
  studies of Russian emigration, as well as ideas about the activities and significance of Benois personality for the
  artistic and the emigration world of the mid-twentieth century. The article traces the history of the formation and
  principles of collecting the archive, identifies the reasons and the course of distribution, systematize information
  about its location and the composition of materials in storage places.
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: Modern History of Russia;Volume 12; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian emigration
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Rossica
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Mir Iskusstva
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: сultural heritage
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Alexander Benois Archive: Collection and Distribution
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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