The World Society for the Study, Preservation and Popularization of the Cultural Heritage of Uzbekistan hosted a meeting with Professor Kirill Gavrilin, Head of the Department of the History of Art and the Humanities at Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry.
At the meeting, Professor Kirill Gavrilin noted the following:
– I sincerely thank the World Society for the invitation to participate in the 6th Congress, which took place last summer in Samarkand. Not only for the fact that I had the opportunity to get acquainted with leading orientalists from all over the world, but also for the deep and systemic work carried out by the office of the project “Cultural Legacy of Uzbekistan in World Collections” to search for, identify objects of the cultural and historical heritage of Uzbekistan and publications about this series of album books.
university has more than 200 items of the cultural heritage of Uzbekistan”
After a request from the World Society and research carried out in the funds of our academy, it turned out that we have more than 200 cultural heritage items from Uzbekistan. The work on finding and identifying artifacts related to your country took several months.
The largest fund is the architectural ceramics of Uzbekistan, apparently from the collection of Alexei Filippov, a famous artist, ceramist, technologist, restorer of the early 20th century, who began collecting Uzbek ceramics, according to diaries, even under Nicholas II.
This collection was discovered quite recently and is represented not only by samples of applied art from the beginning of the last century, but also by ceramics of the 60-70s, brought to Moscow as a result of student expeditions.
The collection also includes magnificent doors, porcelain, which were created for the Central Asian market. There are samples of paintings by artists who were in Uzbekistan during the evacuation of the war. Some of the paintings represent perhaps already lost heritage and are the most important source that we will include in our study. In addition, as part of a joint project of the World Society, we are exploring the funds of the State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia on Pushkinskaya Square. There are a lot of Uzbek things in the collection. These are top-level gifts, items that were sent to international exhibitions, the best paintings by Uzbek artists of the 30-50s, and much more.
Thanks to the initiative of the World Society, the specialists of our university conducted thorough research and discovered truly unique objects of Uzbekistan’s cultural heritage. The funds contain metal, samples of folk ceramics, and wood from Khorezm – all this remained unexplored for a long time. Separate items are also stored in the branch of the university – the Kalinin School, where all the masters of decorative art from the countries of the former Soviet Union, including Uzbekistan, studied. Some items came from the revolutionary museum of Khorezm in 1964, – the Professor said.
