The State Institute for Art Studies

This is a project of national importance, aimed at the preservation of Russia’s cultural heritage. Its purpose is to embrace the great Russian composer’s giant creative legacy (more than 400 extant musical and around 150 literary works) and to reproduce the texts of his works as accurately as possible, with due attention to all the documentary sources.

The first Academic Edition of Musorgsky’s Complete Works will present his whole legacy – operas, songs and vocal cycles, piano, choral, and orchestral compositions, Rimsky-Korsakov’s editions and orchestrations of Musorgsky’s works, as well as Musorgsky’s letters and the memoirs of his contemporaries.

A unique project concerned with the publication of the archive of the great Russian theatre director and the archival materials related to his activities. The project’s aim is to reconstruct the stages of Meyerhold’s creative path on the basis of extant documents, to follow the evolution of his ideas on stage direction and teaching, to present his creative discoveries and achievements against the background of Russian artistic life of the first half of the 20th century.

The diaries published in this multi-volume edition were kept by an outstanding Russian theatre manager, the last director of the Imperial Theatres, during twenty years. The day-by-day chronicle of the Moscow and Saint Petersburg Imperial Theatres provides a clear view of their repertoire, of the organization of theatre business, of the attitudes towards theatre shown by the imperial court, the Tsar’s family, the society, and the critique.to present his creative discoveries and achievements against the background of Russian artistic life of the first half of the 20th century.

A fundamental project of a comprehensive history of European art from the Renaissance to the early 20th century, embracing painting and graphic arts, sculpture and architecture, music and theatre of Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Austria, England, the Netherlands, the Nordic countries, and the countries of the Eastern Europe.

The volumes of this series contain publications of archival, epistolary and other materials related to the Russian church singing practice in the 19th and 20th centuries, to important events in the history of Russian Orthodox Church (the Local Council of 1917–18, the Athos expedition of 1906), to church choirs and musical educational establishments, to particular periods of the history of church singing, and to outstanding personalities in the world of church singing.