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"Curator". Articles. Letters. Prose.
Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of V.M. Glinka Vladislav Mikhailovich Glinka (1903-1983) was born in the city of Staraya Russa. After graduating from Leningrad University, the future researcher was fascinated by history and museums. From the end of the 1920’s until 1941, V.M. Glinka worked as a tour guide, then as a member of the research staff in museum palaces: Peterhof, Tsarskoye Selo, the Fontanka House of the Sheremetievs, the Russian Museum, and the Hermitage. He worked on a daily basis with people like I.A. Orbeli, E.V. Tarle, V.F. Levinson-Lessing, S. N. Troinnitsky. These were years of scrupulous, unceasing work in the museum collections, libraries and archives. For about three years Glinka worked in the Central Historical Archive, where he was in charge of the archives of the Ministry of Court and Appenages. During the entire blockade V.M. Glinka worked as a medical orderly in the evacuation hospital in Leningrad, then until 1944 he looked after the museum collection of the Institute of Russian Literature. In 1944 he moved to the State Hermitage, where he became chief curator of the Section on the History of Russian Culture. The War of 1812 and the Decembrists were topics that occupied a special place in his research work. He saw these intersecting topics as rather more than a field of artistic, art-historical or historical study. For Glinka these events were the chief and defining moments, the cornerstone of Russia’s entire history in the 19th century. Being a museum worker, historian, and writer, he was not merely a preserver but a restorer of humanity’s shapes and forms. In an introduction to this book, Director of the State Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky calls Vladislav Mikhailovich Glinka a “symbol of the Hermitage, firstly, a symbol of Hermitage intellectual traditions and scholarship.” The book “Curator” Articles. Letters. Prose. Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of V. M. Glinka, released by the Ars Publishing House, St Petersburg in 2003, has 384 pages and contains many extremely valuable documents, letters, and photographs illustrating the life of the great researcher. The author and compiler is M.S. Glinka, writer and nephew of V.M. Glinka, who, following the death of his parents, was raised together with his sister in the family of Vladislav Mikhailovich. The idea for this book was initiated by G.V. Vilinbakhov, Deputy Director of the State Hermitage for Research, and M.S. Glinka. |
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