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Collection autumn/winter 1867- Serbian
collection from Russian Ethnographic museum in Sant Peterburgh
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This is the first time that the Russian Ethnographic Museum is in the enterprise of presenting its Serbian collection in such a voluminous manner. The history of this collection is associated to an important event of Russian ethnology and museology – to The First All-Russian Ethnographic Exhibition and the Panslavic Congress which took their parts in Moscow in 1867. Every Slavic nation also has been invited to participate that exhibition. The Organising Committee of the Exhibition appointed professor N. A. Popov from the Univeristy of Moscow to establish contacts with the institutions of science and with the distinguished individuals of the Slavic countries. Professor Popov has also been appointed as the chief organiser of the Slavic part of the exhibition. The Organising Committee of the Exhibition raised vast funds in order to obtain the foreign ethnographic material and to transport it from abroad to Russia. The Committee's call for participation and instructions for collecting the ethnographic objects have been anounced throughout the Europe in the newspapers published in Slavic languages. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The invitation for that exhibition was send to the Serbian Scholar Society in Belgrade too. Serbian Principate very much appreciated participation of Serbian deputies at the Panslavic Congress and presenting the Serbian folk culture at the exhibition. That was considered as the matter of the national interest. The Sub-committee of the Serbian Scholar Society has been founded in order to prepare and arrange Serbian participation at the Congress and at the Exhibition. Writer and high government officer Milan Đ. Milićević and painter Stevan Todorović had been appointed to collect and buy the ethnographic objects and to make the illustrations which were about to be presented at the exhibition. The whole enterprise was financed by the Serbian state, and under the patronage of Prince Mihailo Obrenović. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Milan Đ. Milićević and Stevan Todorović began performing their task in February 1867 by buying six sets of garments: a female one from the Valjevo surrounding, a girl costume from Levač, an older man suit from Donja Gruža, a male costume from Gornja Gruža, an old woman costume from the Užice surrounding, and the boy's cloths. Stevan Todorović made the drawings of all of the six sets of garments. He also marked every particular part of the each costume by the numbers and the names, and made the instruction for the exhibtion organisers in Moscow in which way to dress the mannequins. He ordered those sets to be sent first to the priest M. F. Rajevski in Vienna, and then to Moscow, to get the proper design for that mannequins. Beside those sets of garments, the cloths for Beogradska varošanka (literally – Belgrade female dweller, means the particular women's costume of the wealthy class) have been obtained too, and sent to Moscow with the rest of the material intended for an exhibition, although without the drawings of that particular costume. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The invitation for the exhibition also was sent to the Matica Srpska in Novi Sad, then in the Austrian Empire, with the recommendation for forming the committee authorised for collecting the items from Srem, Banat, Bačka, and Slavonija. This institution officially gave the negative answer to that invitation, so collecting the material for the exhibition felt upon the enthusiastic individuals eager to help. The teacher from Sombor Nikola Vukićević collected precious material from Bačka. Beside his own enthusiasm, he was financially supported by the priest from Russian embassy in Vienna M. F. Rajevski. Nikola Vukićević's example was followed by some of the most distinguished Serbs in the Austrian Empire: the protopresbyter from Sremska Mitrovica Uroš Milutinović obtained the folk costumes from Srem, the vicar Nikola Begović from Karlovac bought the Serežani costume from the Karlovac surrounding (Vojna /Military/ Krajina), while the bishop from Zadar Božidar Petranović sent male and female costumes from Dalmatian Bukovica to Moscow. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Photographs of the costumes' owners dressed in those costumes have been also sent for an exhibition, as well the pictures of towns and villages, and the drawings of the famouse people from the Serbia of the time. Musical instruments, housings, and models of the traditional buildings also were exhibited in Moscow. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The complete ethnographic material, including the photographs and the drawings, were tributed to the Public Museum of Rumyantsev and to the Ethnographic Department of the Dashkov Museum (as its special section) after the exhibition has been closed down officially. That material has been assigned to the Ethnographic Department of the Russian Museum after 1902, and that was the institution which served as the basis for forming the Russian Ethnographic Museum 1948. The latter inherited the Serbian Collection. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Serbian collection of the Russian Ethnographic Museum presents the most important collection of the traditional Serbian culture artifacts out of Serbia. It is based in the most significant manner upon the objects collected and presented at the Moscow Exhibition in 1867. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Collection autumn/winter 1867, featurs the part of the still existing material: the complete Serbian folk costumes as well some single items. We are showing the folk costumes presented at the All-Russian Ethnographic Exhibition: 135 items organised into 13 sets, beside nine single objects. Those costumes come from Dalmatia, from the Karlovac surrounding, from Srem and Bačka, and from around Užice and Kragujevac. The next group consists of 22 items obtained during 19th Century in Serbia, and organised into 3 sets, while one object is separately exhibited. Those come from around Niš, Vranje and Pirot. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This is the very first time that this collection is being presented in Serbia, so we aim to highlight its importance by the efforts based on researching the original artefacts – the sets of garments and the single clothing – then the written documentary material from the Russian Ethnographic Museum, and also the material from Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade, as well the documents from the Serbian archives. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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