Russian Ethnographic Museum

1902 год

Emperor Nicholas II

308690

554389

Federal

non-profit institution

Collection of Yuletide masks acquired in the Arkhangelsk and Semipalatinsk provinces in the early 20th century; Collection of Russian costumes of the 18th — first quarter of the 20th century; Collection of Russian spindles from various provinces of Russia, 19th — first quarter of the 20th century; Collection of costumes of the peoples of the south and southwest of Eastern Europe, as well as foreign Slavs, 18th — first quarter of the 20th century; Collection of Ukrainian ceramics, consisting of items for decorating the folk dwelling, various tableware, decorative vessels and toys; Collection of jewelry presenting the full variety of traditional techniques, materials and types of ornaments (women's, men's, and for horse trappings) used among various peoples of Central Asia and the Caucasus; Collection of forged iron objects of the peoples of the Caucasus and Central Asia, including weapons with makers' marks, agricultural tools with cosmogonic symbols, and hearth-related items; Collection of carpets of the peoples of the Caucasus and Central Asia, 17th — first quarter of the 20th century; Collection of cultural monuments of the Baltic-Finnic peoples of Northwest Russia — Veps, Vodi (Votians), Izhorians, St. Petersburg Finns, Estonians, Setu, Karelians, Sámi. A significant and sometimes unique part consists of complexes of festive and wedding clothing of the late 18th — 19th centuries, ritual items related to family rites, and musical instruments; Collection of Finnish cultural items acquired for the museum from Professor U.T. Sirelius, the founder of Finnish ethnography — one of the largest (about a thousand exhibits) and most important in Russia. It is noted for the careful selection of artifacts — tools, utensils, household furnishings and clothing. Many served as commemorative gifts and were part of dowries; they are richly ornamented and bear inscriptions, dates and ownership marks. Notably unique pile carpets dated to the late 18th — first quarter of the 19th century and a collection of items of maiden, women's and men's clothing of the Finns of Vyborg Governorate; Collection of Setu jewelry in silver and various metal alloys, much of it assembled by the noted collector F.M. Plyushkin. His collection includes fibulae (brooches), neck-and-chest necklaces and chains. Most pieces date from the 18th–20th centuries, with a number from the 16th–17th centuries; many are rarities without analogues in other museum collections; The only collection in Russia of 40 unique examples of Lithuanian wooden religious sculpture from the 18th–20th centuries; The only collection in Russia of works by the Latvian folk potter and experimenter of the early 20th century E. Dranda (18 decorative clay plates); Collection of costumes of the peoples of the Volga region and the Trans-Urals from the late 18th — first half of the 19th century; Collection of monuments of Bashkir culture (the most significant in Russia), obtained by the museum from the expedition of archaeologist and ethnographer S.I. Rudenko; Collection of cultural monuments of the island Swedes of Estonia, gathered by N. Arepyev and A. Fomenko in 1908–1911 on the islands of Ruhnu and Vormsi (sets of men's, women's and children's everyday and festive clothing of the 19th century; musical instruments); Collection of cultural monuments of the Volga German colonists, containing unique-in-the-world complexes of men's and women's clothing from the first third of the 19th century; Collection of items related to shamanism of the peoples of Siberia and the Far East — among the most interesting objects in the holdings.