In the room of Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak’s sister, Yelizaveta Mamina (married name — Udintseva), there is a chest, which belonged to the writer. There, he kept handwritten texts, the inscription on the lid says: “Manuscripts of Mamin-Sibiryak”.
The outside surface of the chest is covered with iron silver sheets, and inside — sheets of asbestos. On the lid and front side, there are hinges for the lock, and on the sides, there are copper handles with which the item was carried.
In 1891, Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak decided to move from Yekaterinburg to St. Petersburg. Before he left, he gave the manuscripts for safekeeping at the Ural Society of Natural Science Lovers (USNSL). The writer had been a member since 1884.
For almost a quarter of a century, the chest stood untouched. In 1915, after Mamin-Sibiryak died, the Moscow newspapers “Russian Word” [“Russkoye Slovo”], “Russian Morning” [“Utro Rossii”] and “Broker News” [“Birzhevye Vedomosti”] published articles about the writer’s archive being in a deplorable condition.
Then, in Yekaterinburg, a meeting of the Ural Society of Natural Science Lovers was arranged. The writer’s relatives were also invited. The chairman said that the metropolitan press had incorrectly “covered the question of the manuscripts kept in the society”, and he opened the chest in front of all those present.
Inside, there were an inventory list and 94 documents, which were well preserved. It turned out that before giving manuscripts to the Society, Mamin-Sibiryak bound paper sheets in notebooks and numbered them from No. 1 to No. 94. For example, four manuscripts of different editions of the novel “The Privalov Fortune” [“Privalovskie Milliony”] were combined under number 14.
The chest with texts remained in the Ural Society of Natural Science Lovers, and then it was transferred to the funds of the Sverdlovsk Regional Museum of Local History. In 1946, when the Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak Museum opened in Yekaterinburg, the chest went to his collection and the handwritten notebooks — to the State Archive of the Sverdlovsk Region.
The manuscripts that the writer left in the Urals have been preserved in full. The Petersburg texts went to his widow, Olga Guvale, and were completely lost in 1917—1918.
The outside surface of the chest is covered with iron silver sheets, and inside — sheets of asbestos. On the lid and front side, there are hinges for the lock, and on the sides, there are copper handles with which the item was carried.
In 1891, Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak decided to move from Yekaterinburg to St. Petersburg. Before he left, he gave the manuscripts for safekeeping at the Ural Society of Natural Science Lovers (USNSL). The writer had been a member since 1884.
For almost a quarter of a century, the chest stood untouched. In 1915, after Mamin-Sibiryak died, the Moscow newspapers “Russian Word” [“Russkoye Slovo”], “Russian Morning” [“Utro Rossii”] and “Broker News” [“Birzhevye Vedomosti”] published articles about the writer’s archive being in a deplorable condition.
Then, in Yekaterinburg, a meeting of the Ural Society of Natural Science Lovers was arranged. The writer’s relatives were also invited. The chairman said that the metropolitan press had incorrectly “covered the question of the manuscripts kept in the society”, and he opened the chest in front of all those present.
Inside, there were an inventory list and 94 documents, which were well preserved. It turned out that before giving manuscripts to the Society, Mamin-Sibiryak bound paper sheets in notebooks and numbered them from No. 1 to No. 94. For example, four manuscripts of different editions of the novel “The Privalov Fortune” [“Privalovskie Milliony”] were combined under number 14.
The chest with texts remained in the Ural Society of Natural Science Lovers, and then it was transferred to the funds of the Sverdlovsk Regional Museum of Local History. In 1946, when the Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak Museum opened in Yekaterinburg, the chest went to his collection and the handwritten notebooks — to the State Archive of the Sverdlovsk Region.
The manuscripts that the writer left in the Urals have been preserved in full. The Petersburg texts went to his widow, Olga Guvale, and were completely lost in 1917—1918.
