Library of the State Academic Mariinsky Theater

In 2021, the library was given the status of a departmental archive and de facto it was removed from the circle of archives in which musicologists can work. Even the library directory is not available to researchers.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, a number of copies disappeared from the library, although they appear in the library catalog. Perhaps they were taken abroad. Including the score of the melodrama to the music of Nikolai Pomorsky "Pygmalion" disappeared.

Previously, the Library of the Directorate of Imperial Theaters.

Thanks to this archive, some works of Russian composers of the 18th century have been preserved, including the music of Evstignei Fomin to the melodrama Orpheus and Eurydice.