Metadata: Neselovskii
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 5908
- Title:
- Neselovskii
- Title (official language):
- Неселовский
- Creator/accumulator:
- Neselovskii
- Date(s):
- [1870s/1920s]
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 71 storage units
- Type of material:
- Photographic images
- Scope and content:
- The collection includes photographs of various provenance taken in the 1870s-1920s, including scenic documentary photographs showing views and household items pertaining to the traditional culture of various ethnic groups of Central Asia: Uzbeks, Jews, Gypsies, Arabs, and “Chala-Kazakhs.” The photographs show occupations; types of housing; wedding, funeral and other life-rituals; views of towns and villages; and religious structures. Pertaining to Jewish history and culture, specifically that of Bukharan Jews, are three photographs taken by F. Hordet that are recorded in the inventory as “Eastern Jews. A woman and a girl,” “A Jewish school in Bukhara,” and “A Jewish funeral” (1870s-90s).
- 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:
- This collection of photographs of varying subject matter and ethnic provenance was donated to the State Museum of Ethnography by a certain Neselovskii (neither his initials nor information on him could be found) in December 1936.
- Access points: locations:
- Bukhara
- Central Asia
- Russia
- Access points: persons/families:
- Hordet, F.
- Neselovskii
- Subject terms:
- Bukharan Jews
- Burial
- Education
- Education--Schools and universities
- Photographs
- System of arrangement:
- The collection includes a single inventory systematised according to the ethnic-thematic principle.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
