Memnon and Nestor Petrovsky’s book collection in the 1920s and 1930s

Abstract

Memnon and Nestor Petrovsky’s Library was created in Kazan in the second half of the nineteenth –early twentieth century. In the 1920s, it was transported to Moscow, then, in the 1930s, – to Leningrad. From 1931 to 1934, when the Institute of Slavic Studies functioned in the building of the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a part of Petrovskys’ Library was stored there. After 1934, the Institute was closed, but the Slavic Cabinet continued its work. However, the Slavic Cabinet was also disbanded in 1936. The books, including parts of Petrovskys’ Library, were transferred to the ASL funds.