“Is it a Proper Moment for Russian Museum
Libraries Co-operation?”

Irina Soldatenkova
Art Library of The State Russian Museum
Address: Russia, 191011, Saint-Petersburg, Injenernaya str., 4.
E-mail: RML@spb.org.ru

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Irina Soldatenkova - Senior Librarian of the Art Library of The State Russian Museum.

The State Russian Museum is the world's largest museum of Russian art. It is located in the very centre of St Petersburg, just of the city's central magisterial, Nevsky Prospect. The museum is housed in the former Mikhailovsky Palace, a stunning monument of Empire architecture. The collection of the Russian Museum numbers some 400,000 works and covers the entire history of Russian fine art from the tenth century to the present day. It reflects virtually every form and genre of art in Russia, including a unique collection of Old Russian icons, works of painting, graphic art and sculpture, decorative and applied art, folk art and numismatics, as well as the world's finest collection of Russian avant-garde.

The Art Library of the State Russian Museum (SRM) is located in the central part of Mikhailovsky Palace, near the main staircase. The first record of the Library was found in the Statutes of the Russian Museum of Emperor Alexander III in 1897. The collection of the Library includes literature connected with many of the fields of the humanities. It as collected both books specially bought by the Museum and the whole collections. Nowadays the Library's holdings number 160.000 items in its storage.

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