Peoples of Russia: Exhibition” Peoples of the Russian Empire” in Ryazan

February 4, 2014 in the Ryazan Museum Reserve opened the exhibition "The peoples of the Russian Empire in the year of the Millennium (1862)" from the State Museum-Estate "Arkhangelsk". Sixty-four illustrations from the book "The ethnographic description of the peoples of Russia T. Pauli, active member of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society", which was published in 1862, demonstrates the scale of the territory and Multiracial once vast empire of the Romanovs.

The author of the book - Gustav Theodore (Feodor Hristianovich) Pauli (1817-1867), a German by birth, was educated at the University of Berlin. His career in Russia he started out as a soldier, but important role in the country's history he has played as a full member of the Russian Geographical Society. The latter circumstance, and played an important role in the fate of this man, giving them an opportunity to do ethnography, meet with prominent scientists of the day and eventually earned a grateful memory of descendants for the preparation and publication of the fundamental work - «Description ethnographique des Peuples de la Russie».

The exhibition presents a copy of chromolithographs "Ethnographic descriptions of the peoples of Russia", allowing now judge of the high-level printing and book illustrations in the XIX, and ethnographic publications of the era from the collection of scientific library Museum. For the convenience of visitors, it is given the ethnographic map of the Russian Empire in 1862.

The exhibition will run till February 23, 2014.