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V.M. Glinka. Memoirs. Archives. Letters V.M. Glinka. Memoirs. Archives. Letters The book entitled V.M. Glinka. Memoirs. Archives. Letters consists of selected chapters from the memoirs of V.M. Glinka (1920s, 1930s, the Siege of Leningrad), of a great many letters, critical essays and commentaries, as well as the reminiscences of people who knew V.M. Glinka. The book is richly illustrated and includes around 200 photos, many of which are published for the first time. Vladislav Mikhailovich Glinka (1903-1983) was a major scholar who worked in many museums and became the principal curator of the Department of History of Russian Culture in the State Hermitage, whose past he knew wonderfully well. In 2003, on the year marking the 100th anniversary of Glinka's birth, the ARS Publishing House issued the book Curator ( Curator. Articles, Letters. Prose. Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of V.M. Glinka, St Petersburg, 2003). The idea for the book was put forward by G.V. Vilinbakhov and M.S. Glinka. This book was very highly esteemed by specialists and historians as well as by the general reader. It was in fact the first volume of the publication presented now. It is no coincidence that Director of the State Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky began his foreword to this volume with mention of Curator: "I am very pleased that publication of the book 'Curator' essentially laid the ground-work for new initiatives. That book was so good and its title was so fortuitous that it naturally led not only to the follow-on volume we offer readers today but gave rise to the idea of creating a series telling about other curators in the Hermitage and generally about the people whom we can call by this lovely name of curator." “This is a special word. Its solemnity and grandness comes from the essential feature and professional objective of museum managers, something that is not always clear to outsiders. Often you hear that art may be understandable, but what are you doing here? And the words 'curator' and 'caretaker' or 'custodian' are sometimes associated with the idea of a warehouse, namely the head of a storage facility. Therefore it is appropriate to put out a series under the general heading of 'Curator,' books which will in a most entertaining manner tell us about museum people and their amazing work. After all, museums are places where woks of art, buildings and people are inseparable. By people, we mean both those who are alive and those who were here and have departed, but who live on in the memory of people working in these halls... Thanks to books in the series 'Curator,' thanks to the stories of these people and about them, thanks to the archival materials, we continue living in their midst. This book helps us to feel their presence better and allows others to experience what we feel.” |
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