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The exhibition under the title "Museum of antiquities" is the part of the vast collections of the Russian collector Feodor Pljushkin. His collection had more than one million items. The collection is amazing by its content. There was everything that could be found in rich, merchant Pskov and its area of the 19th century. Ancient manuscripts, first printed books, historical documents, coins, medals, paintings, drawings, utensils of the different peoples of Russian Empire, on par with Indians, Chinese, Iranian objects, memorial objects which belonged to Tsars and other remarkable persons.
On the exhibition visitor will be able to see F. Pljushkin's ethnographical collections, given to the museum in 1913 by his heir. The collections include monuments of the traditional Russian, Setu, and Tatars cultures, along with the Caucasus, Central Asia, Iran, Turkey and China peoples cultures. Though the biggest part of the collection dedicates to the ethnography of the Russian peoples: embroidered trimming for the sheets, towels, objects made of the walrus bone, forges chests and caskets; copper, silver and tin utensils, richly decorated women headdresses, shawls with gold and silk embroidery, jewelry. Such items existed not only in the Pskov Gubernia, but in the other regions of the Northern-West of the European part of Russia. A lot of objects from the collection were made in the 16th -17th century, and were notable for their forms, rich decoration, paintings, embossed ornamentation and painstaking work.
Curators of the exhibition: O. Baranova, T. Zimina, C. Dmitriev, L. Korolkova, E. Madlevskaya, E. Neratova, A. Ratnikova, C Stolipina, O. Fonyakova, I. Shangina
Deign D. Maevskiyi
Mounting: A. Daniel, T. Drozd, C, Savostianov
Coordinators: A. Lyalin, K. Polyakova, E. Ushakova
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