Е. П. Тышкевич и другие : история и опыт современной репрезентации литовского культурного наследия в Российском этнографическом музее

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Etnografija; Eustachijus Tiškevičius; Lietuvių kultūros paveldas Rusijos etnografinėse muziejuose; 19 amžius; Muziejai; Sankt Peterburgas; Ethnography; Eustachy Tyszkiewicz; Lithuanian XIX c. history; Lithuanian cultural heritage at Russian museums of ethnography; Museums; St. Petersburg.

ENThe exhibition "Early Lithuania", prepared in cooperation with the National Museum of Lithuania in 2009 and dedicated to the millennium anniversary of the mention of the name of Lithuania, should be distinguished among the international exhibition and publishing projects of the Russian Ethnography Museum (Российский этнографический музей, St. Petersburg) of the recent years. Favourable conditions for putting into life this unprecedented project of cultural cooperation between the two main museums of Russia and Lithuania were created by its inclusion in the state anniversary programme of the Republic of Lithuania. The aim of this many-faceted project (exhibition, album-catalogue) was to present the collections of Lithuanian folk culture held in the Russian Ethnography Museum for society at large of both neighbouring countries.The authors of the project put forward the following tasks: 1) to introduce the most valuable exhibits and collections of traditional Lithuanian culture held in the museum, and to present detailed information about their use and their "museum biographies", 2) to introduce the history of the formation of the stock of Lithuanian ethnography at the Russian Ethnography Museum in the second half of the 19th century - early 20th century, and 3) to present the life and activity of the researchers who created and developed Lithuanian ethnography and made the greatest contribution to the formation of the museum's collections. The author of the paper analyses the Lithuanian collection in the Russian Ethnography Museum, which consists of approximately 3 thousand museum objects, more than 3 thousand photographs and negatives, illustrational and cartographic material, and the archives of well-known ethnographers and collectors. The research of the Lithuanian folk collection is part of the long-term project "From the Baltic Sea to the Urals", whose aim is to increase the relevance of the cultural heritage of the nations of this region by looking for contemporary forms of presentation in the museological, cultural and informational space both in the Russian Federation and abroad. [From the publication]