3) The Chairman stated that the premises for the Society’s library had already been opened and the books available had been transferred to the Society’s library, and also suggested Messrs. members to donate their labors.
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At the Society meeting on November 20, Dr. I. P. Khrushchov read an excerpt from his essay “On Ancient Russian Historical Legends and Stories”, under the title: “the legend of the campaigns against the Polovtsians in connection with the Tale of Igor’s Campaign; and D. Ch.
A. A. Kotlyarevsky reported comments regarding the scientific significance of the new edition made by Mrs. Strekalova, under the title: “Russian historical clothing from the X to the XII centuries.” Having listed publications of a similar kind before the appearance of this work, namely: 1) “An experience on clothing, weapons, morals, customs and the degree of enlightenment of the Slavs from the time of Trajan and the Russians, until the invasion of the Tatars, op. A. N. Olenin. St. Petersburg. 1832-33,” - a publication that has become the greatest bibliographic a rarity, which presents photographs from the images on the columns of Trajan and Marcus Aurelius Antoninus; from a scientific point of view, the book still retains its original significance, like everything that Olenin wrote; 2) “Historical description of clothing and weapons of Russian troops” by Viskovatov, published by order of Emperor. Nicholas I; it was brought to Peter in the first volume
B., restoration of clothing was allowed according to written data, mainly foreign; 3) Savvaitov’s “Explanatory Dictionary” and 4) Pogodin’s work in the third volume of his “History of Russia” - prof. Kotlyarevsky moved on to comments on Ms. Strekalova’s publication, which consists of text and drawings. The general impression of the publication is that the technically excellent drawings make it a women's living room book, but the text is typed randomly; its incompleteness is evident; the explanations of this drawing force the publisher to even resort to exaggerations, so on the “testimony of Arab writers”, namely Ibn-Fodlan, who talks about the funeral of a noble merchant and how he was dressed, a restoration of princely clothing was built (obviously, the reason for the exaggeration was Ibn-Fodlan’s epithet “noble”). Sometimes a publisher takes evidence from a writer who can be categorized as having never written about Russians, such as. Procopius. Of course, for the restoration of “Slavic” clothing, one could and even should have used the words of Procopius, but then one should have paid attention to other news about the Slavs and to actual pictures.
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their display in monuments, for example. to the image of the Bulgarians (including Krum, by the way) in the menology of Vasily the Porphyrogenitus of the 10th century - in a mutton cap, with a knife, pipe, sword and horn, with a shaved head. One should also take images of the Slavs from the 11th-century manuscript of the Saxon Mirror (Mope. Teizsche Oepktaier), where the Saxons are depicted with knives (8ax) and long hair, and the Slavs in intertwined stockings (from here even an etymological myth was formed, deriving the word "I Hiep<ie" from lippyep) and always with tonsured hair; the women have a headdress resembling an otchik - a kiku... Elsewhere, the Slavs are depicted in clothes with cut-out festoons at the bottom, which is reminiscent of the clothes of singers, guslars and magicians in the Middle Ages. It seems that the German even wanted to express his contempt for the Slav in his clothes... In the text, the publisher sometimes takes material from Zabelin’s books (from the 16th to the 12th centuries!), which contradicts the task of presenting. clothes from the 10th to the 13th centuries; sometimes borrows evidence from an impossible source (for example, an explanation of a kiki from a Slovak fairy tale!) As for drawings from manuscripts, here either incompleteness or additions are allowed at its own discretion. The publisher did not use the Ryazan antiquities (Kalaidovich and Olenin), as well as the material from the “Vladimir Treasure”; committed confusion by not indicating where the drawing was made from (eg St. George the Victorious from St. Michael's Monastery); the frescoes of one church are attributed to another (the images of Boris and Gleb are attributed to the Church of Nicholas on Lipna near Novgorod, while the opis are from the Nereditsa Church near Novgorod); there are indications of the deaf (eg the manuscript of Hippolytus?); finally, in the restorations themselves affectation is allowed, for example. one drawing represents a cloak worn over a naked body, which the Russian climate would hardly allow.
V.S. Ikonnikov, regarding the publication of Mrs. Strekalova, pointed out the non-epstematic post of the presentation in general and particular mistakes (explanation of the ortma according to Gerbel, ornicha according to Pogodin, the hryvnia - exclusively as necklaces), some broad interpretations, the poverty of the article on musical instruments, the inconsistency of the drawings with the text, the exclusion of the clothing of clergy.
3) At the present meeting, the election of the Chairman of the Society took place, to whose position, after the end of the term and retirement,
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zones prof. V. S. Ikonnikova from further election, Professor A. A. Kotlyarevsky was elected.
At the meeting on December 11, 1877, Dr. N.P. Dashkevich read the following essay: “The social system of southern Rus' in the 2nd half of the 13th and first 14th centuries.” From the time the Romanovichs defeated their opponents, changes began in the internal structure of the lands of southwestern Rus', which conditioned all further development of this system. With the establishment of the dominance of one house,