Metadata: D. M. Shcherbakovskii
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- Research Archive of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences’ Archeology Institute
- Holding institution (official language):
- Науковий архів Інституту археології Національної академії наук України
- Postal address:
- 12, av. Geroyiv Stalingrada, Kyiv, 04210, Ukraine
- Phone number:
- 380 (44) 254-11-47
- Email:
- kancel@iananu.org.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 9
- Title:
- D. M. Shcherbakovskii
- Title (official language):
- Щербаковский Д.М.
- Creator/accumulator:
- D. M. Shcherbakovskii
- Date(s):
- 1877/1927
- Language:
- Russian
- Yiddish
- German
- Polish
- Ukrainian
- Extent:
- 553 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Graphic material
- Scope and content:
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A significant quantity of the fonds’ materials pertain to monuments of Jewish history and culture, including depictions (photographs and drawings) of structures from numerous population centres in the Pale of Settlement, primarily from towns of Volhynia and Podolia, and also from the Kiev and Chernigov regions and western regions of Ukraine: views of streets and residential buildings (including rabbis’ houses and their construction features), inns [zaezdy], synagogues (and their interiors), and Jewish cemeteries and headstones; and depictions of works of decorative and applied art (mainly of a religious nature, e.g., lamps, menorahs, etc.).
There are also instructions for describing synagogues and sketches for classifying Jewish headstones (by shape and ornamentation); descriptions of synagogues in travel notebooks; descriptions of pictures on matsevas (tombstones), a recording of a discussion in the town of Ozarintsy (Podolia province) with a matseva-maker, and manuscript dictionaries of Jewish sacral terms; lists of “Jewish items” returned to Kiev after their seizure “to benefit famine-stricken children of the Volga region”; a manuscript of Danilo Shcherbakyvs’kii’s article “Synagogues and Jewish Art,” and of a report by Mariia Viazmitina and M. Novitskaia titled “The Jewish Cemetery in Borishpol’”; the catalogue of a Jewish art exhibit in Kiev (1920); bibliographic cards with sources on Jewish art and everyday life in Poland, Lithuania, Germany, Kiev, and Crimea; early twentieth-century Jewish-themed postcards; an amateur photograph captioned “Jewish Recruits Taking the Oath”; etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
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The Ukrainian art scholar, ethnographer, archaeologist, historian, museum curator, and public figure Danilo Mikhailovich Shcherbakyvs’kii (Shcherbakovskii) (1877-1927) was born in the village of Shpichentsy (Skvira county, Kiev province; now Ruzhyn/Ruzhin district, Zhytomyr/Zhitomir region). He graduated from the Third Kiev High School [gimnaziia] in 1897 and Kiev’s St. Vladimir University’s history and philology faculty in 1901; he remained at the latter institution’s Russian history department to train for work as a professor.
Under the guidance of V. B. Antonovich, he conducted archaeological excavations in the Kiev and Kherson provinces. In 1902, he began to make systematic expeditions throughout Ukraine. From 1906-10, he taught at high schools [gimnazii] in Uman’ and Kiev. From 1910 on, he was head of the department of everyday historical life and folk art at the Kiev Industrial-Arts and Science Museum (now the National Art Museum of Ukraine), where he worked off and on for the rest of his life, assembling for it approximately 30,000 examples of Ukrainian folk art and several thousand Ukrainian songs and other folkloric materials. In 1911 he made a research trip to Germany, Austro-Hungary, Poland, and Italy to familiarise himself with museum operations there. He was conscripted during the First World War and served in the army. Upon returning to Kiev, he became one of the organisers of the Kiev Archeology Institute (1917), the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences’ F. K. Vovk Office of Anthropology and Ethnology (1921), and the Kiev Ethnographic Society (1925).
From 1918-27, he taught history (including the history of art) at several institutions of higher learning in Kiev, worked at the journal Ukraina (1924-27), and was active in the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences and other research institutions. He was also associated with the establishment of the Museum Fund in Kiev and of the Kiev Art Gallery; and with the return from Moscow to Kiev of a considerable number of items of cultural-historical significance that had been seized in 1922 from houses of worship in Kiev. He authored over fifty research studies. In the last years of his life, he was hounded and subjected to harassment, resulting in his suicide.
- Access points: locations:
- Chernigov region
- Crimea
- Germany
- Kiev
- Lithuania
- Ozarintsy
- Podolia
- Podolia province
- Poland
- Ukraine
- Volga region
- Volhynia
- Access points: persons/families:
- Novitskaia, M.
- Shcherbakovskii, Danilo Mikhailovich
- Viazmitina, Mariia
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is provisionally structured (in a manuscript inventory log) by document type and subject (history, archaeology, ethnography, architecture, museum operations); letters to the collection creator are alphabetised by correspondent name.
- Finding aids:
- A manuscript inventory log is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary