Museums in Russia: The Novgorod Museum-Reserve will receive unique photos of exhibits of the Museum of Antiquity of 1893

July 19, 2017 it will be donated to the Novgorod Museum-Reserve five photographs, dated 1893 with a picture of the windows, filled with exhibits of the Novgorod Museum of Antiquities.

On the back of the images there are brief annotations, which increase their informational importance. Igor Domnin, deputy director of the House of Russian Abroad, will give photos to the Alexander Solzhenitsyn House of Russian Abroad, who himself will present photos at a press conference and will tell their story.

The photographs are of great importance for the Novgorod Museum-Reserve, its research and, subsequently, exposition and exhibition activities. After the October Revolution and during the Great Patriotic War, the museum suffered irreparable losses, losing not only part of its priceless exhibits, but also archival documentation. In these photographs, researchers for the first time will be able to see a number of monuments about which information was preserved only in the catalogs of the museum of antiquities. And until now it was impossible to imagine how they looked. There will be grounds for starting searches for the location and possible return to the museum of many items.

In addition, it is interesting to compare the current external state of the surviving stock items with the way they looked more 120 years ago. Thanks to these pictures, subjects will acquire a part of their history. And modern Novgorodians will have a unique opportunity to see some of the first expositions of the Novgorod Antiquities Museum through the eyes of its creators and visitors of the late XIX century.