Photoarchives

E. Regel and his family

A.A. Fischer von Waldheim, Director of the Botanical Garden, 1913

I.P. Borodin

V.N. Sukachev and other participants of the conference on the forest typology, 1950

Laying of foundation of the herbarium building, 1913

Photoarchives of the Botanical museum numbers ca. 30000 units of issue, i.e. photos and negatives related to the history of Russian botany. The archives is replenished since late 19^th century mostly by the botanists, who traveled around Russia and abroad. The pictures have been taken by them or obtained from other persons and brought to the Botanical museum.

In the Photoarchives there are the pictures made in 1913 while celebration of 200 anniversary of the Imperial Botanical Garden by the famous photographers Karl Bulla and Iosif Ozup. Moreover, 54 negatives and 16 color slides of buildings, greenhoses and park made in 1911-1914 by A.A. Alexeev are the valuable materials for the history of the Komarov Botanical Institute.

The pictures taken in 1905-1912 by the botanists worked in expeditions of the governmental Department of Migration are of great interest for the history of Russia. In the Photoarchives there are the pictures and negatives made by A.N. Krishtofovich, I.M. Krasheninnikov, B.A. Fedchenko, S.S. Ganeshin, A.F. Flerov, V.N. Sukachev, V.S. Dokutovsky, Z.A. von Minkwitz, O.E. von Knorring, B.A. Keller, B.N. Klopotov, N.I. Kusnetzov, S.E. Kucherovskaja and others. These materials show us the images of landscapes, towns, villages, and also the ethnographic pictures from different parts of Russia where these botanists were usually the only people with the camera.

After this period the Photoarchives is replenished by the pictures from the expeditions of the Komarov Botanical Institute. The picture taken by Al.A. Fedorov, An. A. Fedorov. L.N. Tiulina, L.E. Rodin in the most remoted parts of the former Soviet Union are especially important for us.
Photoarchives is subdivided into the following parts:

1. History of the Botanical Garden.
2. Expeditions
3. Personalia
4. The Botanical Institute during the Second World War
5. Botanical congresses, symposia, meetings in Russia and abroad.
6. Landscapes
7. Portraits of plants

N.N. Monteverde on the plot of pharmaceutical plants at the time of the Leningrad Blockade (during the Second World War)

Staff members of the Botanical Institute decorated by the medal “For defence of Leningrad”