THE FIRST YEAR OF RESTORATION WORKS OF THE AZERBAIJAN CENTRAL DEPARTMENT FOR THE PROTECTION OF MONUMENTS OF THE REVOLUTION, ART, ANTIQUES AND NATURE AT THE SHIRVANSHAHS PALACE IN BAKU (1932): REFLECTED BY ARCHIVAL DOCUMENTS

Abstract

The article describes the initial stage (1932) of the restoration of the Shirvanshahs Palace (Khan's Palace) in Baku, carried out by the Azerbaijan Central Directorate for the Protection of Monuments of Revolution, Art, Antiquity and Nature together with the Central State Restoration Workshops (Moscow). The management of the first, pre- restoration stage was carried out by the archaeologist Evgenia Georgievna Pchelina (1895–1972), temporarily accepted into the staff of the directorate, with the participation of an employee of the directorate Ivan Pavlovich Shcheblykin (1884– 1947). Works of 1932 are presented in detail in the report of the directorate for 1932, which is stored together with other documents on this issue in the State Archive of the Republic of Azerbaijan, as well as in the diary entries and reporting notes of E. G. Pchelina, stored in the St. Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences.