At the initiative of the World Society for the Study, Preservation and Popularization of the Cultural Heritage of Uzbekistan, specialists from the Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry conducted thorough research and discovered unique items of Uzbekistan’s cultural heritage.
The funds contain metal and wood products, samples of folk ceramics – all this remained unexplored for a long time.
The search and identification of artifacts related to Uzbekistan took several months.
At a meeting at the office of the World Society, Professor Kirill Gavrilin, Head of the Department of the History of Art and the Humanities at Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry, noted:
– I sincerely thank the World Society for the invitation to participate in the 6th International Congress of the World Society “Cultural Heritage of Uzbekistan – the Foundation of a New Renaissance”, 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 that is being carried out within the framework of the project “Cultural Legacy of Uzbekistan in World Collections”.
After a request from the World Society and research carried out in the funds of our university, it turned out that we have more than 200 cultural heritage items from Uzbekistan! And 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. According to the diaries, he began to collect Uzbek ceramics under Nicholas II. This collection was discovered quite recently and is represented not only by samples of applied art from the beginning of the century, but also by ceramics of the 60-70s, brought to Moscow by student expeditions.
The sponsor of the project is the oilfield service company Eriell Group. The author and project manager is Firdavs Abdukhalikov.
