Vladimir provincial scientific archival commission

The main task of the archival commission was the analysis of provincial archives, the study and description of ancient monuments, the collection of biographical information about the figures of the Vladimir region. The initiators of the creation of the Vladimir Academic Archival Commission were Alexander Vasilyevich Smirnov and Alexei Vasilyevich Selivanov . A.V. Selivanov in 1884 became the founder of the Ryazan Scientific Archival Commission ; in Vladimir, he wrote the Charter of the new organization, donated books to the commission’s library, became its de facto first leader (he was a fellow chairman).

The first general meeting and opening of the Vladimir Provincial Scientific Archival Commission took place in the governor's house ( Bolshaya Moskovskaya Street , 62). Further work of the commission took place in the premises of the provincial government offices, and a small room at the Golden Gate was allocated for the museum collection and historical archive. It was decided to build a special building for the museum and the archival commission in early 1900; a competition was announced in which the project of architect P.G. Begen won . The building was laid down on May 29, 1900, built in 1903, the museum was opened only in 1906; the museum was located on the second floor, and the historical archive and library on the first. The facades of the building are generously decorated with various decorative elements of ancient Russian architecture; on the roof there are four dormers (along the main facade) and a pediment with figured completion from the side of the main entrance and a brick on the pediment: “1900, VAK” ^[1] .

The Vladimir Commission from 1899 to 1918 published 18 volumes of studies - "Proceedings of the Vladimir GUAK"

The chairmen of the commission have always been the leaders of the Vladimir province:

• Urusov, Nikolai Petrovich (1898-1900)
• Khvostov, Sergey Alekseevich (1901-1903)
• Leontyev, Ivan Mikhailovich (1903-1906)
• Sazonov, Ivan Nikolaevich (1906-1913)
• Creighton, Vladimir Nikolaevich (1914-1917)

• Arseniev, Vasily Sergeevich (since 1905)
• Begen, Peter Gustavovich (since 1900)
• Beretti, Nikolai Alexandrovich (since 1902)
• Borisovsky, Pavel Petrovich (since 1899)
• Burylin, Dmitry Gennadievich (since 1904)
• Vinogradov, Alexander Ivanovich (since 1898)
• Dobronravov, Vasily Gavrilovich
• Dobrynkin, Nikolai Gavrilovich
• Kazansky, Nikolai Alexandrovich
• Koritsky, Nikolai Dmitrievich
• Malitsky, Neofit Vladimirovich
• Smirnov, Mikhail Ivanovich

At the end of 1911, the Commission numbered 241 people ^[2] .

• Proceedings of the Vladimir Academic Archival Commission for the first decade of its existence: 1899-1908: Bibliographic index. - Vladimir, 1909.
• Gordeev S.P., Davydova A.S. The building of the Vladimir Museum, founded in 1862 by local historians, where the Vladimir Provincial Scientific Archival Commission worked in the 900s // Materials of the Code of Monuments of History and Culture of the RSFSR. Vladimir region. - M. , 1978. - T. 68 . - S. 45-49 .

• Handbook of Scientific Societies of Russia
• The first museum in Vladimir