Memories (philanthropy in the Russian Empire)
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18 ill., All published memories in 5 parts. Pyotr Ivanovich Schukin (1853 [1] -1912) - Russian collector, creator of the Schukin Museum. At the end of the school, he worked in the trading house of Abelsorf and Mayer in Berlin, and since the spring of 1874 - at the weaving factory of Seven and Barral in Lyon. I studied the production of silk fabrics. In 1876, he received a place in the Warburg Commissioner House and K in Lyon with a salary of two thousand francs. It was in Lyon that he began collecting - he collected French books and portraits of famous personalities. Specific trade interests - the trade in fabrics - were determined at the initial stage of its collecting activity and the subject of collecting: he bought up Persian carpets, products of Japanese, Chinese and Indian masters for his collection. Since the beginning of the 1890s, he was seized by collecting monuments of Russian history. Schukin acquired ancient objects not only at fairs in Nizhny Novgorod, Kyiv and other cities of Russia, but also among European antiques. In 1905, Schukin gave his rich collection to the Russian historical museum in Moscow. After the dedication, May 20, 1905, the collection of Peter Schukin of more than 300 thousand objects became called "Department of the Imp. Russian Historical Museum. imp. Alexander III - Museum of P.I. Schukin ". Until the end of his life, he remained the trustee of his museum, continuing to support him and replenish the collections. P.I. Shchukin died from purulent appendicitis and was buried in the cemetery of the Pokrovsky monastery. The further fate of the museum did not work out as he expected. After the death of Schukin, the museum did not remain long in his building. Contrary to the will, all collections were decided to transport to the Historical Museum to Red Square, and the building in Georgians to adapt for economic purposes. As a result, the Schukin meeting, the inventor of which the owner himself did not manage to complete, was dissolved in the countless collections of the historical museum, which became one of the largest in the country after the 1917 revolution. Naturally, such a heterogeneous meeting in Soviet times, the newly created museum institutions began to be divided among themselves: the exhibits of the eastern department ended up in the Museum of the Arts of the East, Russian paintings were taken by the Tretyakov Gallery, and some of the collections of applied art, notes fell into the library of the Moscow Conservatory, and books In the historical library. Circulation 30 copies. Made using Print-on-Demand technology
Author:
Author:Schukin Petr Ivanovich
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Cover:Soft
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- Category:Biographies & Memoirs
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Series: Russian memoirs
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ISBN:978-5-4481-0431-2
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