Open AccessGrand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich - the Organizer of Libraries in the Artillery, Corps of Engineers and in the Military-Educational Institutions (second quarter of the 19th century)
Author(s) -
A. M. Pantchenko
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
bibliotekovedenie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2587-7372
pISSN - 0869-608X
DOI - 10.25281/0869-608x-2015-0-3-76-84
Subject(s) - artillery , officer , management , engineering , military engineer , guard (computer science) , emperor , law , library science , military science , political science , history , archaeology , ancient history , computer science , economics , programming language
N the basis of the archival materials and pre-revolutionary publications there is for the first time comprehensively studied the activities of the son of Emperor Paul I and Maria Feodorovna, Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich, being in the capacity of: General-Feldzeugmeister (1819-1849), Inspector General for Engineering (1825-1849), Director-General of Military Educational Institutions (1831-1849), where were laid the foundations of the centralized organization of the officer libraries in the Artillery, Corps of Engineers and in the Military Schools. Under Mikhail Pavlovich, as the Commander of the Guards Corps (1826-1849), the organized officer libraries in the Guards Corps have got its further development. There are presented and analyzed normative legal documents, having made the significant contribution to the history of military librarianship of the Russian Army. Some of them became the basis for the further development of “Statutes”, “Regulations” and “Instructions” of military libraries. There is given comparative characteristics and there are shown some organizational features of the artillery, engineers, combat engineer and regimental guard officer libraries, as well as book collections of the secondary military schools.