For the history of studying the historiography and methodology of museum management in Russia

The authors of this article have turned to the history of museum management historiography in Russia. They studied works of Russian historiographers who worked in XIX-XX centuries, such as K.N. Bestuzhev-Ryumin, V.S. Ikonnikov, A.M. Razgon, S.O. Schmidt and others. Analysis of the involved papers allowed them to find out what Russian Museum researchers did not turn to the study of Museum management for a long time. Partly it was because the term Museum management appeared in Russian museology only at the very end of the XX century. However, important components of Museum management, such as organizing of Museum science, the Museum budget, the direction of Museum, were in the focus of authors' interests in museology. It is important to note that historiographers necessarily noticed the components of Museum management in the works of Russian muze-ologists and covered them among other topics. The article shows that a great work "The Experience of Russian Historiography" by V.S. Ikonni-kov included a variety of issues of Russian museums historiography. Along with other issues, this work covered the study of formation, storage and accounting of museum collections in Russian universities, and in the Museums of the Russian Geographical society and the Moscow Archeological society. Moreover, Ikonnikov was the first in the Russian historical scholarship who said that analyzed works contained information about the direction of Museums. The paradigm shift of historical and museological studies in Russia after the Revolution of 1917 interrupted the historiography traditions of the Museum science. However, interest in the history of museums study was revived in the middle of the XX century. The first articles on the historiography of the Museum science were published, and their authors V.M. Zimina, P.Ya. Bukshpan, G.I. Vederniko-va reiterated elements of Museum management in the Museology works they studied. S.O. Schmidt played important role in the revitalization of Museology historiography; he revived the genre of historiography portrait. In the "portraits" of M.N. Tikhomirov and A.M. Razgon, written by S.O. Schmidt, there were clearly readable components and methods of Museum management. Appeal to the history of Russian historiography shows that until 2010-s Museum management found only indirect lighting in museological and historical works. Changes in study of problem have occurred in the current decade. Tomsk authors L.A. Lozovaya, N.M. Dmitrienko, M.A. Butenko, V.S. Glukhov use authentic historiography sources and have begun to investigate the issue of studying Museum management in Russian historiography.

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