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KUCHUMOV Anatoly Mikhailovich (1912-1993, town of Pushkin), museum worker, art historian, honoured culture worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1975), honorary citizen of the town of Pavlovsk (1992) ... | | KUCHUMOV Anatoly Mikhailovich (1912-1993, town of Pushkin), museum worker, art historian, honoured culture worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1975), honorary citizen of the town of Pavlovsk (1992). In 1930-32, attended the factory school of Okhta Chemical Plant, concurrently attending courses in the Hermitage. In 1932, worked as a cataloguer of the Palace Museum of Pavlovsk; since 1937, headed Alexandrovsky Palace Museum in Pushkin. In 1941, Kochumov took charge of Pushkin museum collections evacuation to Gorky, then to Novosibirsk. In 1944, he returned to Leningrad, and took part in setting up the Central Depository of Museum Collections, becoming its first director. Kuchumov was a member of the Investigation Commission for Valuables Looted by the Nazis (with Kuchumov’s assistance, over 12,000 exhibits were found and returned to museums). In 1956, he was appointed chief curator of Pavlovsk Palace Museum, and became one of the authors of the project of restoration of its interiors. A specialist in the 18th -19th centuries Russian material culture history, Kuchumov provided consulting support to the Hermitage, the State Museum of History, Tretyakov Gallery and other museums. He authored the following books and albums: Pavlovsk. The Palace and the Park (1976), The Decor of Russian Home Interior of the 19th Century (1977), Russian Arts and Crafts of the Late 18th - 19th Centuries (1981), etc. In 1986, he received the Lenin Prize. Kuchumov lived in Pushkin (Alexandrovsky Park, White Tower), Pavlovsk (6 Very Slutskoy Street), in 1983, returned to Pushkin (2 Shkolnaya Street). He was buried at the town cemetery of Pavlovsk. References: Масси С. Павловск: Жизнь рус. дворца. Л., 1990. С. 225-245; Мудров Ю. В. Почетный гражданин Павловска // Мир музея. 1993. № 2. С. 69-70. V. A. Belanina.
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This year the palace-museums of Pushkin Town were visited by 1,790,000 people; the budget of the museum was Rb 2 million. Evening excursions with the electric light were organised in the Alexander Palace on the initiative of its director A ... | | This year the palace-museums of Pushkin Town were visited by 1,790,000 people; the budget of the museum was Rb 2 million. Evening excursions with the electric light were organised in the Alexander Palace on the initiative of its director A.M. Kuchumov. Main halls of the palace welcomed guests with crystal chandeliers lights and flashes of lamps placed in flower decoration. The Maple Lounge, where was the pink highlight of cornices, was the most unusual. The Puskin Town Executive Committee Comission for Pushkin's places protection, headed by the writer V.Ya. Shishkov, introduced the celebration of the poet's birthday near the monument in the Lyceum Garden on 6 June. This tradition survives today. N.A. Trofimova and Ye.N. Matveyeva, research workers of the Alexander Palace, went out to the front area of battles with "White Finns" for collecting exhibits of the exhibition "The Defence of Petrograd - Leningrad", which was being in the palace untill the occupation of 1941.
Persons Kuchumov Anatoly Mikhailovich Matveyeva, E.N. Shishkov Alexander Semenovich Trofimova, N.A.
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