A book with a handwritten address by historian Nikolai Romanov in 1926.

Nikolai Ilyich Romanov is an art historian and museum worker. In 1923, he became the head of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (GMII). It was during these years, as a result of the nationalization of private collections and the redistribution of museum values, the museum received a significant number of paintings by Western European artists, in the selection of which N.I. Romanov took an active part.

Thus, one of the first bulletins of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, published after the reorganization of the museum and its inclusion in the government plan for the development of museum business (at the same time the museum was renamed the State Museum of Fine Arts), was signed by N.I. Romanov. The issue contains art history articles and articles about the development of the museum, its events and receipts.