Date: 29.08.2014
On August 29th, 2014 the Reader’s Museum hosted the first lecture of the set “The Unknown Facts about the Known: the History of Persons and Recorded History of the Russian State Art Library”. The set of lectures was dedicated to the people who selflessly devoted themselves to the Library.
Due to those wonderful people, their knowledge, work and creativity, our Library became “a precious source” for the whole cultural life of the country, according to K.S. Stanislavsky.
The chief bibliographer of the Library’s Iconography Complex Department, Tatiana Mordkovich, dedicated her report to the founder and the first director of the Library – Alexander Alexandrovich Fomin (“Alexander Alexandrovich Fomin - the founder and the first director of the Russian State Art Library. Books with provenances and autographs from A.A. Fomin’s library in the collections of RSAL”).
Fomin’s library, his collections, his published and unpublished works became true heritage for the culture as he managed to organize rare collections, invented and implemented the system of the scientific classification and enlisted the cooperation of many famous scientists.
While studying the archive documents, Tatiana Mordkovich discovered numerous materials on the life of Fomin’s talented family – the family that had enriched the Russian culture with more than twenty artists and architects during the period of 150 years.
The lecture was supported by the demonstration of the unique publications and graphic materials from the collections of the Russian State Art Library.
