Metadata: S. M. Dudin
Collection
- Country:
- Russia
- Holding institution:
- The Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (the Kunstkamera)
- Holding institution (official language):
- Музей антропологии и этнографии им. Петра Великого (Кунсткамера) Российской Академии наук
- Postal address:
- 3 University Emb., Saint-Petersburg 199034, Russia
- Phone number:
- (812) 328-41-81
- Email:
- museum@kunstkamera.ru
- Reference number:
- Collection I-582
- Title:
- S. M. Dudin
- Title (official language):
- Дудин С. М.
- Creator/accumulator:
- S. M. Dudin
- Date(s):
- 1902
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 15 storage units
- Type of material:
- Photographic images
- Scope and content:
- Included are documentary photographs and views taken by S. M. Dudin in 1902 in Mahalla i-yahudien, the Jewish quarter of Samarkand, and annotated thus: “Feast of Tabernacles” [Sukkhot]; “The home of a rich Jew”; “Synagogue”; and group and individual photographs of “types” of Bukharan Jews: men, young men, young women, and children.
- Archival history:
- The collections of photographs and negatives of the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography began to be assembled in the 1880s. They were supplemented by photographs taken by museum staff members during expeditions, and by photographs purchased from individuals and various organisations. Currently, the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography’s department of photographs includes 9,618 photo collections.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Samuil Martynovich Dudin (1863-1929) was an artist, photographer, ethnographer, and traveler. He studied at the Elisavetgrad general secondary school (realschule), but was expelled in 1881 and did not graduate. In the late 1870s – early 1880s, he was involved in the People’s Will [Narodnaia volia] circle. In 1884 he was arrested and exiled to the city of Selenginsk (Zabaikal’e region) for three years. In 1891, he served as a draftsman in an expedition to Mongolia led by Academician V. V. Radlov. In the same year, upon petition by Radlov, S. M. Dudin was granted permission to live in St. Petersburg, where he entered the Imperial Academy of Arts. He graduated in 1897 and continued his studies at the Higher Art School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture of the Academy of Arts, first as an auditor, then as a regular student in the Repin studio. In 1898, he studied in France on an Academy of Arts scholarship, and visited Berlin, Dresden, Munich, Vienna, and Amsterdam. He served as a photographer and draftsman in numerous expeditions to study monuments of Turkestan and Central Asia, and in particular, the expeditions of Academician S. F. Ol’denburg to Chinese Turkestan in 1909-10 and 1914-15; and he served as research curator and secretary of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. It was on his initiative that the Russian Museum established its Ethnography Department in 1902. The collection includes slides from the photography collection of S. M. Dudin housed in the State Museum of Ethnography and registered with the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography in 1936.
- Access points: locations:
- Bukhara
- Mahalla i-yahudien
- Russia
- Samarkand
- Access points: persons/families:
- Dudin, S. M. (Samuil Martynovich)
- Subject terms:
- Bukharan Jews
- Children
- Jewish holidays
- Photographs
- Synagogues
- System of arrangement:
- The collection includes a single inventory without any apparent systematisation.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary