Inventory of the Mikhail Pavlovich Karpov papers
Finding aid prepared by Hoover Institution Library and Archives Staff
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Title: Mikhail Pavlovich Karpov papers
Date (inclusive): 1894-1960
Collection Number: 2005C27
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
Russian
Physical Description:
6 manuscript boxes, 6 oversize boxes, 28 oversize folders
(9.0 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, programs, appointment books, printed matter, postcards, and photographs, relating to music in tsarist Russia
and the Soviet Union.
Creator:
Karpov, Mikhail Pavlovich, 1884-1959
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Access
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
Use
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2005.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Mikhail Pavlovich Karpov papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Biographical Note
Russian pianist, conductor and composer.
Scope and Content of Collection
Correspondence, programs, appointment books, printed matter, postcards, and photographs, relating to music in tsarist Russia
and the Soviet Union.
Arrangement Statement
The intellectual arrangement of the collection is based on a Russian language inventory located in Box 1. More detailed information
about the items in the collection may be found on this document.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Music -- Soviet Union
Music -- Russia
box 1
Inventory
Scope and Contents note
A Russian language inventory for the Karpov papers created by an unknown source.
Personal and family documents
1898-1961
box 2, folder 11
Karpov family official records and documents
box 4, folder 1-3
Professional identification cards and passes
undated
Scope and Contents note
Includes Karpov's identification card as concertmaster for the Kirov Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet, 1958-1960, and
a membership card for the Cultural Workers Trade Union, 1959.
box 9, folder 6-11
Awards and excerpts from official documents
1940-1951
map_case case
Educational certificates
Scope and Contents note
Includes certificates for completing courses in the piano and music theory given to Mikhail Karpov in 1905 and a certificate
given to Klavdiia Tret'iakova in 1914 by the Rostov women's gymnasium.
box 2, folder 6
List of members of the orchestra of the Imperial Russian Opera
undated
box 3, folder 1-5, 24
Letters from Mikhail Karpov
1894-1940
box 3, folder 6-15, 25
Letters to Mikhail Karpov
1910-1940
box 3, folder 26
Professional correspondence and notes
undated
box 3, folder 18-23, 28
From relatives of Karpov
1900-1910
box 6
Notebooks and diaries
undated
box 8
Musical manuscripts of Mikhail Karpov and his son
box 9, folder 5
Musical manuscripts of Mikhail Karpov and his son (cont.)
Photographs
undated
Scope and Contents note
Includes photographs taken by family and friends as well as oversize photographs taken by the famous Petersburg photographer
Carl Oswald Bulla.
box 11
Miscellaneous oversize photographs
Scope and Contents note
Includes autographed photographs of Mily Balakirev, D. Stasov, Feodor Shaliapin, and others.
box 12
Oversize group photographs
box 7
Album of photo cards
Scope and Contents note
Contains portraits of various individuals. Also includes a few postcards.
box 9, folder 2
Musical notation by Riccardo Drigo
1919
Programs, announcements, and posters
box 1, folder 2
Undated
Scope and Contents note
Includes posters from before 1917 as well as undated posters.
box 2, folder 8
For performances by Michel Fokin
1916-1918
map_case case
For performances by Michel Fokin (cont.)
box 2, folder 9-10
Printed matter
1907-1949
Scope and Contents note
Includes
Derzeichnis hervorragender Merke russischer Komponisten with an entry on Karpov,
Одесское обозрение театров,
Программы Ленинградских театров (№ 15, 1930),
Рабочий театр (№ 35, 1926; № 43, 1925), and
Ленинградские театры (№ 7, 1936).
box 4, folder 4-5
Printed matter (cont.)
1907-1949
box 9, folder 3
Printed matter (cont.)
Scope and Contents note
Includes the journals "За советское искусство" (1936-1949) and "Гатобовец" (4 December 1934).
map_case case
Printed matter (cont.)
Scope and Contents note
Includes issues of
Грозненский рабочий, Советское искусство, Смена, Правда, Ленинградская правда, Красная газета, Воскресенье, and
Баку.
