THE KHABAROVSK TERRITORIAL MUSEUM OF REGIONAL STUDIES AFTER N.I. GRODEKOV
HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM
The forming of the Khabarovsk Territorial Museum of Regional Studies is connected with the name of t
he first Head of the Priamursky department of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society (PDIRGS) governor-general N. I. Grodekov. Thanks to his vast knowledges, energy, "ardent love to the museum study" the library and the museum with natural-historical and art collections were established by the PDIRGS. From 1902 till 1922 the museum had the name of N.I. Grodekov "true leader and inspirer" of the museum study in the Russian Far East.
In the year of the 100 years anniversary of the museum 1994 - the museum was returned the name of N.I. Grodekov the honored citizen of Khabarovsk, the first Head of PDIRGS, the governor-general of the Priamursky Territory, the explorer and the active creator of the museum reserves. The Museum was opened on 
the initiative of the Priamursky department of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society (PDIRGS) in April, 19, 1894. By the beginning of the XXth century the Grodekov museum "attracted the attention of all donators" in Khabarovsk and became the head museum in the Priamursky Territory. Its collections were exposed in the Russian and international exhibitions in Novgorod, Kazan, Chicago and Paris. V.K. Arsenyev, the famous traveller, scientist and writer, the important museum figure, had been heading the Khabarovsk Museum of Rerional Studies for more than 10 years (1910-1919 and 1924-1925 ). For that period the museum became the centre of lore studies in the Territory. In 2000 the Khabarovsk Museun of Regional Studies has been given the status of the scientific institution and the title "The best museum of the year 2000". The museum is a member of the Russian Committee of the International Council of Museums (ICOM). Nowadays the museum reserves include more than 328.438 thousand items. Many of them are exposed in 12 sections of the museum. Annually the museum is visited by 180.000 people. More than 2500 excursions, lectures and lessons are given here. 9 moving exhibitions are displayed in the museum and in other cultural-educational institutions of the city. ARCHAEOLOGY
Archaeological department was opened on the base of the Grodekov Museum in 1998. It is placed at the separate building which before October revolution was the property of a merchant V.P. Lubben, the owner of a brewery. Archaeological reserves of the museum include more than 35000 items. 1200 of them are of great scientific value and they are available to visitors in the archaeological department.
Collections of A.P. Okladnikov and V.K. Arsenyev and also materials of the museum archaeologists A.V. Deryugin, Yu.M. Vasilyev and others are the basis of archaeological reserves. The scientific conception of the department was worked out by I.Y. Shevkomud the candidate of historical sciences. A.A. Suchkov the member of the Russian Association of artists represented his architectural-artistic project of exposition. The scientific worker archaeologist A.V. Malyavin took an active part in the reconstruction of typological complexes.
There are five thematic sections in the exposition which cover the period from the origin of human beings to the Mongolian invasion.
Cultures of the Paleolithic period or the so 
called Old Stone Age (30000-13000 years B.C.) are shown in the first section. Visitors can find themselves in the Stone Age looking at the diorama where the temporary site of ancient hunters and some stone implements are reconstructed. The remnants of the most ancient pottery which was made in the L
ow Amur 13000 years ago arose the great interest. Impressive brightly ornamented ceramics of the Middle and Late Neolithic Age astonish our imagination. There are also fragments of big vessels painted with raddle and also bas-relief depictures of human faces and animals.
The unique exhibits of the Neolithic art are represented in t
he exposition. Among them there are statuettes-figures of women-well known as "The Amur Venus".
Illustrations, pictures and exhibits of the third section inform on the monumental memorials of the ancient art in Priamurye - cliff-pictures and petroglyphs. The first of them appeared 8000-10000 years ago. Visitors' attention is attracted by the copies of the basaltic blocks made in the settlement Sikachi-Alyan. There are depictures of human faces on the stones cut out by hands of ancient people.In the epoch of th
e ancient metal people began to use iron instead of stone. Metal became one of the main materials for making tools and armour. That stimulated the great industrial development as well as rapid spreading of permanent settlements. A fragment of an ancient dwelling is reconstructed in the diorama. In its interior one can see hunting and fishing tackle. There are spear-heads, bones of animals, net sinkers, fish-forks there, near the fire-place there are burnt millet grains. It is the best proof of the fact that economy of ancient people had many branches with predomination of agriculture and cattle-breeding.
The developed culture of the Iron Age gave good grounds for forming of the first states in the Far East - Bokhai, Tzsin (the Gold Empire of chzhurchzhenies) and others dated from the V-XIII centuries A.D. The history of their
establishing was closely connected with conflicts and wars. The patterns of the Middle Age armament are also exposed here. Among them there are armour (coats of mail), arrows and arrow-heads, spears, harness of war horses. Visitors' attention is usually drawn by men belts composed of bronze, iron, silver or gold plates. The remains of temples-facing bricks, tiles with relief ornament found by archaeologists are a real decoration of the Middle Age section. Possibly, the culture of Amur chzhurchzhenies was the basis for cultures of forefathers of the modern Amur peoples Udes, Ulchies, Nanais, Nivkhs and others. Traveling from one section to the other visitors can have a look upon many milleniums and penetrate into the atmosphere of ancient epochs.
NATURE
Existing since the first days of the museum nature department gives information on geography of the Khabarovsk Territory, variety of its mineral resources and diversity of its unique flora and fauna. It has valuable exhibits - nature monuments collected by its workers, scientists and naturalists P.T. Bykov, V.K. Arsenyev, N.A. Desulavy, V.V. Dombrovsky, S.Ya. Sizykh, A.I. Kordakov, G.E. Roslyakov and many others inquisitive and disinterested helpers.
The relief map of the Russian Far East is placed by the entrance t
o the first section. The Khabarovsk Territory is located in the eastern part of the Euro-Asian continent. Its location determines natural andclimate peculiarities and components of relief in the Territory. They are mountains, valleys and lowlands, rivers, lakes and seas.
Exhibits of the palaeonthological section are the remains of ancient plants and animals. Th
ey narrate the story of evolution at the border of continent and world ocean where the sea and land fossils are neighbours. The skull of Chukotka mammoth is the most noticeable among them. It was presented to the museum by the governor-general of the Priamursky Territory N.L. Gondatti in 1896. The mammoth tusk of the same age found 8 meters deep in the ground within the city of Khabarovsk in 1975 testifies to the fact that those animals inhabited Priamurye 41 thousand years ago.
The unique exhibit of the N.I. Grodekov Museum is a full skeleton of 
sea cow of Steller. Russian seamen who took part in the V. Bering expedition saw it for the first time near the Comandor islands in 1741. That animal was 10 metres long with the weight of about 4 tons and fed on seaweeds. After that in about 27 years sea cows were exterminated by hunters for sea animals. That's why the full skeletons of those animals are rare. By the order of the Priamursky governor-general S.M. Dukhovskoy two skeletons were found on the Bering island. They were brought to the museum in 1897 and in 1898. Later one of them was sold to the Paris Natural Historical Museum for these funds to finish the building of the Grodekov Museum.
The fauna and flora of the Russian Far East is both unique and varied. Teir originality is conditioned first of all by the wonderful combination of northern and southern, subtropical and Siberian species both in the vegetation and animal worlds. There is no other land in the world where the tiger can hunt for the northern reindeer and lianas of Amur 
woodland grape entwine the larch and fir trees. Many ancient species of flora and fauna survived the Ice Age in this territory. For example, our contemporary the yew tree is the relic of the tertiary period, one of the most ancient conifers on the planet. A 4 metre fragment of the trunk of a 1500 years old yew tree is exposed in the nature department. Some representatives of the aralia family- eleutherococcus and "root of life"-ginseng; of magnolia family-shizandra chinensis; of water-lilies - lotus of Komarov and many others belong by right to the same category of "living fossils".
Within the area of the Khabarovsk Territory one can see about 80 mammal species, 380 species of birds, amphibia and reptiles-8 species of each class. Many of them are shown as taxidermed animals in the nature department. Among them there are such usual animals in the Territory as wolf, fox, badger, squirrel, river cormorant, long-tailed tawny owl, Amur grass-snake, black spotted frog. There are also animals here written down in the list of rare and extincting species, such as Amur tiger, red wolf, leopard, Amur wild cat, fish owl, golden eagle, black crane, scaly goosander, ibis, Far Eastern leatherback turtle.
The main natural zones of the Khabarovsk Territory with their inhabitants are displayed in the second section of the nature department. The 
figures of the biggest mammals of the Far Eastern forest are reconstructed by the best taxidermists. The diorama "The cedar broad-leafed forest" makes a big impression on visitors. It was made by the artist V.N. Vysotsky in 1939-1941 and reconstructed by V.P. Sysoev in 1964-1966. A moment full of expression is shown there - the battle of the strongest beasts of prey in the Far Eastern forest - the brown bear and the Amur tiger. To the left of the diorama there is the unique exhibit - a real den of a Himalayan bear in the trunk of the more than 300 years old larch tree made by the bear at the height of 18 metres.
The diorama "Th
e coast of the Okhotsk Sea" shows an ecosystem extremely full of life. In the summer months the rocks are the place where a lot of sea birds nest - guillemots, cormorants, pigeon guillemots and tufted puffins. On the display one can also see breeding-grounds (rookeries) of many aquatic mammals - sea otters, seals, fur seals. The exposition of the nature department gives the visitors an opportunity to penetrate into the wonderful world of the Far Eastern nature and to find out some of its secrets.
THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST
Ethnographical exposition of the Khabarovsk Territorial museum of Regional Studies introduces the visitors the rich material and spiritual cultureof the indigenous peoples in the Russian Far East at the turn of XIXth - XXth centuries. It gives the opportunity to appreciate the variety of this unique culture at its true value.
The famous scientists and explorers P.P. Shimkevich, Y.A. Sem, P.P. Kusmin, V.K. Arsenyev, V.P. Sysoev and even governor-generals of the Priamursky Territory N.I. Grodekov, N.L. Gondatti and also research workers of the museum have been forming the museum collections.
Today the 
museum reserves contain more than four thousand ethnographical items. Traditional clothes and some household goods are represented in the first section. Geographical location, various climate conditions, different kinds of work influenced the originality of traditional clothes.
Double fur-clothes of done up style was typical of peoples from the Far North.
Visitors' attention is attracted by a Chukchy winter overall for women "kerker" and a Koryak coat for men "kukhlyanka" made of reindeer skin. The native peoples of Priamurye made their clothes using skins of fish and animals. The unique exhibit is an Ude dressing-gown made of skin of a Siberian salmon, dyed with infusion of alder-tree bark and painted with water colours. A Nanai dressing-gown for women is also of interest. It was made of a specially carried reindeer skin called "rovduga".
An Aleut headdress hat-peak "chugudek", brought to the museu
m by V.K. Arsenyev, is of great scientific value. The number of beads on its top means the number of killed animals. There are only two Aleut headdresses with longitudinal ornament in the world. Similar to this one is the "chugudek" which is exposed in the Britain Museum in London.
Exhibits in the second section inform the visitors on the material culture and different works of 
indigenous peoples in the Khabarovsk Territory. Traditional hunting and fishing tackle and some household articles of aborigines of Priamurye the Nanais, Ulchies, Udes, Orochies, Nivkhs take an important place in the exposition. Some kitchen utensils - dishes, vessels, boxes made of birch-bark, wicker baskets, carved spoons make a strong impression on visitors. Fur clothes of Evenks and Evens, a fur carpet, bags, a cradle illustrate the peculiaritiesof a nomadic life of reindeer breeders.Frame birch-bark and gouged boats, narrow and wide skis, a model of sledge with the gear for 10 dogs were the main means of conveyance at that time.
The models of some temporary dwellings always compel the attention of visitors. One of the dwellings, called "khemoran", belongs to 
an Ulchy fisherman, another, called "aonga", to a Nanai hunter. On the display one can also see an Evenk nomadic tent. A fragment of a Nanai winter house equipped with an ancient heating system is reconstructed in the exposition. Those heating systems were known in this territory more than 2000 years ago. Big patriarchal families consisted of representatives of several generations lived in houses like this one. The spiritual and material culture (belief, family life, works, housekeeping) have been formed for centuries. The native peoples were animists 
by their belief. Different hunting and fishing cults were the most ancient form of believes. Shamanism appeared later. Shamans were the mediators between the material and spiritual worlds. Shamans' clothes and attributes are represented in the section "Believes". Metallic plates "toli", belts "yangpan", staffs, masks were made to protect a shaman against evil spirits. A ritual breastplate was necessary to protect a voice of a shaman during ritual ceremonies. A tambourine symbolized a sole of a shaman. The cult sculptures ("spirits-protectors" and "spirits-assistants") are wide shown in the exposition.
The pride of the museum is the biggest complex of "spirits-protectors" of an Ude shaman from the Kusun River. It was brought to the museum by V.K. Arsenyev in 1911. By the middle of the XXth century the traditional culture of indigenous peoples changed very much. In present time it remains unique, but in the whole we can get the information on it in museums only.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PRIAMURSKY TERRITORY BY RUSSIA
The documents and photos dated from the second half of the XIXth - the beginning of the XXth centuries introduce the visitors the history of joining the Far Eastern territories to the Russian Empire and their settling by Slavs from southern and central provinces of Russia. The museum reconstruction of houses and offices of the main social groups of migrants Cossacks, peasants, merchants and petty bourgeois is of great interest.
Cossacks - the military-service class - became the first hunters, craftsmen and builders. Being the first frontier guards in this territory they steadily protected the Far Eastern frontiers of Russia.
The unique exhibit - a wine-set is of great art and scientific value. It symbolizes friendship and brotherhood of Cossacks. Its wine-bowl, wine-cups and tray were made of silver in the technique of colour enamel in the jewelry factory of brothers Khlebnikovs' by the order of the Cossacks chieftain Pechonkin who was the commander of the Amur Cossack army.
In the middle of the XIXth century the state borders of Russia were legalized. In order to protect the eastern frontiers the governor-general of Eastern Siberia N.N. Muravyov organized the first rafts down the Amur river which became the beginning of the systematic colonization of Priamurye.
On the 28 of May 1858 in the Manchurian town Aigun the treaty was signed between Russia and China. According to that document the left bank of the Amur River belonged to R
ussia. After the Priamursky territories had joined the Russian Empire N.N. Muravyov got a count title with addition to his name Amursky. A picture of the Khabarovsk artist V.E. Romanov "The Aigun treaty" is devoted to this historical event where the moment of the signing of that agreement is shown. In 1860 the Peking treaty was signed. It finally fixed the Russian Far Eastern territories in their present boundaries. One can see the texts of the treaties in the museum exposition.
The borders of the Priamursky Territory which was established in 1884
with the centre in Khabarovka are shown on the map of Eastern Siberia in the interior "The study of the official of the Priamursky general-governorship". Photos and documents inform the visitors how that vast Territory was opened up and ruled by governor-generals. They were educated people, patriots of their country who realized the big significance of the Far Eastern territories for Russia.
After Cossacks peasants from different provinces of Russia migrated to the Far East. Due to Stolypin's reform peasants began to come to the Far East very actively. Sizeable difficulties, diseases, death were the constant concomitants of those people who ventured to search a new life in the distant borders of the country. "A peasant house" introduces the visitors some domestic appliances. They are a 
hand spinning-wheel with a comb, a treadle spinning-wheel, a weaver's loom, cast-iron pots, clay vessels for groats. There are also national clothes of Russian, Ukrainian, Byelorussian migrants (women's and men's shirts, panyovy-skirts) and embroidered towels here. Not less interesting are the agricultural implements (the late XIXth the early XXth centuries) which are exposed near the fragment of a granary - ploughs, axes, a flail, horse- gears. In the stream of migrants there were not only peasants but also workmen, handicraftsmen and merchants who made the first capital out of furs, fish and barter with aborigines. Merchants began to trade in the northern areas of the Territory with hunters, fishermen and reindeerbreeders. Soon in addition to delivery and sale some tradesmen wanted to produce goods and to start their own business. Exposed portraits of the famous Khabarovsk merchants Plyusnins', Bogdanovs', Pyankovs', Tiphontay, Khmelevtsov, Toporkov and others, banknotes of that time, a counting frame (abacus), steelyards, advertisement booklets help to feel the epoch of free enterprise at the beginning of the XXth century in Khabarovsk. 
The building of the Amur and the Ussuri sections of the Transsiberian main line became the famous historical event and was finished by opening of the Amur bridge which was built in 1913 - 1916 according to the project of L.D. Proskuryakov and G.P. Peredery. The big section of the exposition is devoted to the orthodoxy which was an integral part of culture of the Slavs-migrants in the Russian Far East. The home-icons where Mary the Virgin and the Lord-the Most High are portrayed, the icons of orthodox holiday and church attributes (crosses, wedding crowns, a thurible, a chalice, a ceremonial vestment of priests) are of great interest.
The unique exhibit- the so called shroud of Christ -is a part of Easter ceremony. It is a symbol of crucified Christ who was wrapped in it. Historical photos narrate about the first educational and medical institutions in the Far East, about the first printed publications of the Priamursky department of the Imperial Geographical Society, about the first newspapers "Priamurskiye vedomosty" and "Priamurskaya zhisn". In the interior of the flat of the intellectual there are a writing-desk, a musical instrument and a dress of a petty bourgeois woman. On display one can also see a collection of women's bags, a suit, a hat and a cane.
A wonderful exhibit - a music box made in Switzerland at the end of the XIXth century attracts visitors' attention. On the metal plates there are some popular melodies of that time. The visitors have the unique opportunity to hear polkas, waltzes, marches, mazurkas and to be carried away in their thoughts into for ever gone epoch when our forefathers felt happy and sad, loving and laughing.
MILITARY CONFLICTS AND THE CIVIL WAR IN THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST
The exposition " The Civil war and military conflicts in the Russian Far East in the first q
uarter of the XXth century" opened in 1997 arouses a great interest of visitors. Its authors made an attempt to show historical events in the years of the revolutionary reconstruction and the fratricidal Civil war thoroughly. There are two historical periods in the exposition: military and revolutionary events (1896 - 1917) and the Civil war in the Russian Far East (1918 - 1922). The unique documents and photos give the visitors the information on the tragic destiny of Russia in that period.
Visitors' attention is attracted by the collection of cold steel arms of the period of the so called Boxer revolt - Chinese pole-axes, sword-tridents and also a Japanese pole-axe "naginata". Documents and photos of the first stands are devoted to the theme of the political struggle at the Far Eastern borders, the building of Chinese Eastern Railway, the events of the Russian-Japanese war (1904 - 1905). In the showcase one can see award arms for officers, a wine-bowl and a bugle with the St. Georgy's ribbon for Cossacks got for their heroic deeds. The unique exhibit is the coat of arms of Russian Empire two headed eagle which decorated the front of a State Bank building. It has a symbolic meaning. Its crown as a symbol of the tsarist autocracy was sawed off after the February revolution.
The next materials and photos help the visitors to know more about the victory of the October revolution, the armed insurrection in Petrograd, the establishment of the Soviet power in the Territory. Some documents inform on armed resistance and organizing of the White Guards and intervention of foreign states in the Russian Far East. Visitors can feel as if they are "participants" of historical events of that time looking at the typological complexes of the exposition: "Kharbin hotel", "Vladivostok cafe", "Illegal flat of the member of an underground organization in Khabarovsk".
Panorama «The Volotchaevskaya Battle»
Panorama «The Volotchaevskaya Battle» is a logical completion of the exposition «The military conflicts and Civil War in the Russian Far East» (the end of the XIX - beginning of the XX centuries) . The crucial moment of the military operation of Volotchaevka is painted on the canvas whose whole area amounts 96 square meters. On the 12th of February at 11.30. the troops of the People’s Revolutionary Army occupied the military fortification of the White Insurrectionists. The village of Volotchaevka is placed at the slope of the hill lyun-Koran approximately 30 km from Khabarovsk. At the end of January 1921 - beginning of February 1922 the People’s Revolutionary Army concentrated its forces near Volotchaevka. The soldiers were bad-dressed and their food was terrible. Often they were forced to eat frozen bread, salty dog-salmon and even snow. The fortification of the White Insurrectional Army of the general Moltchanov was made according to all the rules of military art. There were: dug outs, well equipped machine-gun nests and artillery emplacement made of logs, sacks with ground covered with snow. For better firmness the entrenchment was poured with water. The hill was 6-8 rows wired with «hedgehogs» (obstructions of barbed wire entangled with stakes of iron bars). The Volotchaevskaya hill lyun-Koran towering the surroundings was the best place for observation and the command post of the White Insurrectional Army. The observers of the White Army took cover in the deep trenches on the top of the hill where the telephone wires were extended from. The manpower losses of the People’s Revolutionary Army were huge: 550 killed and 1250 wounded and frost-bitten. It was the third of this army whole complement. The White Army lost 1200 men. The painters of battle-pieces tried to show the huge fortitude of soldiers of the People’s Revolutionary Army, the tragedy of the Civil War when the fathers had to fight against their sons on different sides of barricades. The history of the making of this panorama is very interesting. The former director of the Grodekov Museum, honorary citizen of Khabarovsk, writer, an active participant of this panorama making V.P. Sisoev remembered that the necessity to make it appeared in 1967.The first outline sketch was made in 1970. At the same time the contract between the museum and the painters of battle-pieces was signed. Two painters from Moscow S.D. Agapov and A.A. Gorpenko were invited to the museum by its director and by the section of veterans of the Civil War. They came to Khabarovsk in winter of 1971.The authors of panorama lived in the museum building by the village Volotchaevka. The museum was situated on the hill. At first it was planned to place the panorama there. The painters made sketches of the village and the snow-covered plains where in February of 1922 the heated battle was broken out. One of the episodes of the storm of fortification was shown with help of one subdivision of the Red Banner Far Eastern military district. The research workers of the museum history department, the military specialists (including the colonel A.S. Sisoev), the participators of the battle consulted the painters during their work. The panorama authors Sergey Agapov and Anatoliy Gorpenko the famous painters of battle-pieces live in Moscow. A.A.Gorpenko is a former student and follower of professor N.S. Samokish. In the co-authorship with painters G.I Martchenko and P.I. Geghemont he painted a cycle of paintings which glorify the heroic deeds of russuan and soviet soldiers: «Crossing the Dnepr river», «The Battle of Stalingrad», «The Poltavskaya Battle at the Peter’s the First time» and others. The cooperation with the sculptor E.V. Vutchetitch in the making of the all over the world known memorial in the Treptov park in Berlin brought the fame to the painter Gorpenko. He was awarded a State prize of the I and II degrees. Another painter is S.D. Agapov. In the years of the Great Patriotic War he served in the Pacific Navy. He fell in love with the Far East and dreamt to imprint the heroic history and rich nature of this region in his paintings. The hard work on the canvas had been lasted for 4 years. In this connection the huge canvas which is 46m long and 6m high was placed in the gymnasium of one secondary school in Moscow. When the work was over the canvas was reeled in the special steel drum and brought to Khabarovsk at the end of 1974. The Ministry for Culture of Russian Federation beard all the delivery and installation expenses ( more than 200.000 roubles). On the 8th of March 1975 the painters began to install the panorama in the special room at the Khabarovsk lMuseum of Regional Studies. The work was finished to the 25th of April of the same year. The ceremonial opening of the panorama took place on the 30th of April 1975. It was the important event in the cultural life of the Territory and the whole Russian Far East. There are only three panoramas in Russia. This one is a documentary work of art which reproduces the atmosphere of the battle and the resistance of two armiesand is often used in the educational work with pupils and students of the humanitarian faculties of high and secondary schools. The documentalism of the panorama «The Volotchaevskaya Battle» shows the events of the Civil War and intervention in this region objectively and clearly.
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