Metadata: T. G. Emel’ianenko
Collection
- Country:
- Russia
- Holding institution:
- Russian Museum of Ethnography
- Holding institution (official language):
- Российский этнографический музей
- Postal address:
- Inzhenernaya St, 4/1, Sankt-Peterburg, Russia, 191011
- Phone number:
- (812) 313-45-74
- Web address:
- http://www.ethnomuseum.ru/
- Email:
- info@ethnomuseum.ru
- Reference number:
- Collection 11540
- Title:
- T. G. Emel’ianenko
- Title (official language):
- Емельяненко Т. Г.
- Creator/accumulator:
- T. G. Emel’ianenko
- Date(s):
- 1993/1994
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 23 storage units
- Type of material:
- Photographic images
- Scope and content:
- The collection includes photographs reflecting various aspects of the culture of Bukharan Jews of Samarkand and Bukhara, including representative photographs and photographs with views of homes built in various periods in the Jewish quarter “Shark” (“the East”; formerly referred to as Mahalla i-yahudien; constructed in 1843, Samarkand): “Seeing off Jewish families departing for permanent residence in Israel,” “Sitting shiva” (1993); tombstones (antique and modern) of Bukharan and Ashkenazi Jews at the local Jewish cemetery (Samarkand; 1993-94); as well as photos of several cemetery monuments (1993), and the locations of the khonako (the room in which final farewells from the deceased are made) and the mehbei (the pool with a domed roof where ritual ablution is performed before prayer) (Bukhara; 1994).
- Archival history:
- The photo and negative fonds of the State Museum of Ethnography was first formed in the 1890s, virtually from the moment the Russian Museum was established. At present the fonds of the Russian Museum of Ethnography’s photo archive (the photo collection) includes approximately 180,000 storage units. It consists of photographs taken by museum staff during expeditions, as well as photographs acquired from private individuals and various organisations. The main criterion for the formation of particular collections is that the photographs in question belong to a particular collection creator. This is why photos in a given collection may be devoted to different subjects and reflect different ethnic cultures, and may have been taken at different times. In cases in which photos were acquired from collection creators secondarily, a new collection is formed with corresponding numbering. At the same time, in cases in which a large quantity of photographs that can be grouped by ethnic provenance was received from a collection creator at once, standalone collections are organised. Within collections, photographs have consecutive numbering, the sequence of which relates to ethnicity and subject (if the photographs feature several ethnic groups, then for each of these, photos are grouped by subject), or subject only (if the collection’s materials pertain to only one ethnic group). A given photo collection’s sequence number depends on the overall number of exhibit items (and of collections thereof) received by the museum, including material items, as the Russian Museum of Ethnography considers photographs to have the same status as any other ethnographic item.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Tat’iana Grigor’evna Emel’ianenko is an ethnographer, historian, and expert on the ethnography of Tajiks, Uzbeks, and Bukharan Jews. She graduated from the history department of Leningrad State University in 1972. She has worked at the Russian Museum of Ethnography since 1976, first as a research associate; then senior researcher (1980); head of the department of ethnography of Central Asia and the Caucasus (1990); and from 2008 to the present, as lead researcher of the department of ethnography of the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Kazakhstan; she took part in ethnographic expeditions to Uzbekistan in 1986, 1989, 1991, 1994-95, 2002, 2006, 2012, and 2017. She conceptualised and designed the Russian Museum of Ethnography’s permanent exhibit “The Peoples of Central Asia and Kazakhstan” (opened in 2009) and the “Bukharan Jews” section of its permanent exhibit “Jews in the Russian Empire” (opened in 2004), as well as several exhibits in museums of Belgium, the Netherlands, the United States, and France. From 2001 to 2015 she gave a lecture course titled “The Culture of Everyday Life of the Peoples of Central Asia and the Caucasus” at the St. Petersburg State University of Culture and Art. She is the author of the monograph Traditional Attire of Bukharan Jews: Ethnocultural Aspects (St. Petersburg, 2012). T. G. Emel’ianenko took the photographs that make up this collection during an ethnographic expedition to Uzbekistan in December 1993 – January 1994.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Emel’ianenko, T. G. (Tat’iana Grigor’evna)
- Subject terms:
- Aliyah
- Bukharan Jews
- Burial
- Cemeteries
- Cemeteries--Gravestones
- Jewish quarters
- Photographs
- System of arrangement:
- The collection includes a single inventory systematised according to the subject-thematic principle.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary