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History of the Museum

1. The Main Steps of the Museum Activity
  • documents
  • chronicle
  • 2.History of the scientific research
  • personalities
  • memoirs
  • restoration
  • 3.History of the educational activity

    Scientific Research
  • conferences and seminars
  • participation in the exhibitions
  • scientific works, articles
  • editions
  • restoration
  • expeditions:
  • -- archaeological
    -- collecting monuments of culture and history

    The educational activity
  • celebrations
  • excursion
  • participation in festivals, competitions, exhibitions
  • Rus Eng

    Brief Chronicle of the Main Events (page 2)

  • 1940. By the Decision of the Council of People Commissars of the RSFSR the whole complex of the Zagorsk Museum was declared a reserve. At the same time the status of history and art was restored.
  • 1940 - 1949 - The Museum was in charge of the Department on arts of the Council of People Commissars (CPC) of the RSFSR (since 1946 - Committee on arts of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR).
  • 1941. By the resolution of the RSFSR CPC the collection of the Moscow Artistic Handicrafts Museum passed to the Zagorsk History and Art Museum-Reserve.
  • By 1941 they had finally determined the structure of the Museum collections representing history to the Trinity-St. Sergius Monastery;
    -- Old Russian art of the XIV-XVII centuries;
    -- Russian art of the 18 - the beginnings of the 20th centuries;
    -- Folk art of the 18th - the beginnings of 20th centuries;
    –- Handicrafts and applied art of the 20th century.
  • Since 1946 till 1949 according to the several Resolutions of the USSR Council of Ministers the Museum passed all churches (except the Church of SS. Zosima and Savatty), a larger part of the civic and fortress buildings, a considerable part of icons, service books and textiles to the Moscow Patriarchy.
  • 1949 – 1954 – The Museum was in charge of the Committee on arts of the USSR Ministry of Culture.
  • 1954 – 1956. The Museum was in charge of the Museum Department of the RSFSR Ministry of Culture.
  • In 1956 the Museum became subordinated to the Moscow Region Department of Culture (now the Ministry of Culture of the Moscow Region).
  • 1958. The beginning of the publication of “Soobshcheniya Zagorskogo muzeya”. Active publishing was resumed.
  • 1963. The complex plan of the restoration of the Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra was worked out by V.I. Baldin and A.G. Ustinov.
  • 1969. The Zagorsk Museum was included in the tour “Golden Ring of Russia”.
  • 1969. The Conference dedicated to the 100th jubilee of V.I. Lenin. Reports of the results of work in all spheres of the Museum work in 1950s – 1960s.

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