The collection contains a selection of photos, scans and slides of articles on art, literature and philosophy from Russian newspapers of the 1900–1920s. Elena Selina started gathering materials in the Moscow libraries in the 1990s, with the help of Sergey Dundin, Tatyana Ivanova, Sasha Obukhova, and Sergei Khripun. The archive was digitized with the support of the Center for Contemporary Art, and was later acquired by Garage in 2012. Based on the archive, Sasha Obukhova has produced a detailed timeline of Russian art in the years 1907–1917.