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Formation of Russian Ethnography (1750–1850) FORMATION OF RUSSIAN ETHNOGRAPHY (1750–1850) MARIAM M. KERIMOVA The author explains how Russian ethnography was Avtorica v prispevku pojasni, kako se je ruska etnogra- created in the second half of the 18th century and the fija oblikovala v drugi polovici 18. stoletja in prvi po- first half of the 19th century. She divides this time- lovici 19. stoletja, pri čemer ta časovni razpon razdeli span into shorter periods. In each of these periods she na več krajših obdobij. Predstavi bistvene dogodke, ki presents crucial events that left an important mark on so zaznamovali etnografska dela (npr. raziskovalne ethnographic works (e.g. research expeditions) as well odprave), in posameznike, ki so s svojimi deli vplivali as outstanding individuals who influenced the devel- na razvoj vede v Rusiji. opment of ethnographic science in Russia. Ključne besede: Rusija, etnografija, zgodovinski pre- Keywords: Russia, ethnography, historical overview, gled, 18. stoletje, 19. stoletje, raziskovalne ekspedicije 18th century, 19th century, research expeditions TIME OF GREAT REFORMS The first decades of the eighteenth century, an era of great reforms led by Peter I, were marked by changes in all areas of life in the Russian Empire� The foundation of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1725 played an important role in these changes, as its entire activity was aimed mainly at a comprehensive study of its native country� At the beginning of the eighteenth century, the Russian Academy of Sciences organ- ized expeditions that pursued only scientific purposes – the expedition of Daniel g� Messerschmidt to Siberia (1720–1727), the Great Northern Expedition of Gerhard F� Müller and Johann g� Gmelin (1733–1743), and the expedition of Stepan P. Krashe- ninnikov, the purpose of which was to establish a sea route to America and to study the northern coast of Siberia (1737–1741)� The last expedition results were documented in the Description of the Kamchatka Land by Krasheninnikov, a work that interested not only Russian scientists and travellers but also the Western ones� Along with the advance of the Russian explorers to the Northeast and their search for routes to America, the Southeast regions of the country or South Transurals also underwent an extension� The 1730s marks the beginning of the studies of Central Asia and the intense Russian colonization of these lands� In 1737, Vasily n� Tatish- chev (1686–1750) headed the Orenburg expedition of the Academy of Sciences, the purpose of which was to collect historic and ethnographic materials� His initiative was taken up by Peter i� Rychkov (1712–1777), who also studied the territory of the Oren- burg Region and the South Transurals region and wrote up his findings in the book Orenburg Topography (1762), which was later translated into German� DOI: 10�3986/Traditio2011400208 119 TRADITIONES, 40/2, 2011, 119–136 RESEARCHING FOLK CULTURE IN SLAVIC LANDS BETWEEN 1770 AND 1880 The year 1741 marks the initiation of a series of expeditions to the newfound lands after the discovery of the Aleutian Islands and the Northwest coast of America by Aleksey i� Chirikov and Vitus Bering� The merchants rushed there, attracted pri- marily by fur resources in coastal areas (beaver, polar fox and other furs)� From 1759 to 1762, Stepan Glotov and Savva Ponomarev visited different regions, including the islands of Umnak and Unalaska at the Eastern part of the Aleutian archipelago� During these voyages, sailors and merchants came in contact with the native population – the Aleuts, the Kodiaks – and brought back information about these peoples� The most valuable of these reports concerned the population of the Aleutian Islands provided by Stepan Cherepanov, Ivan Korovin, Ivan Soloviev and Vasily Shilov (in the 1760s), which were published only recently by Alexander i� Andreev (1948)� Their reports and notes turned up at the Senate and Admiralty Boards in Saint Petersburg� It was with great difficulty that the government agreed to organize new expeditions: in 1764, a spe- cial expedition under the guidance of captain Pyotr Krenitsyn and captain-lieutenant Mikhail Levashev was organized to explore the Aleutian Islands� It was unsuccessful because its members failed to establish friendly relations with the population of Alaska� The expedition returned to Saint Petersburg with heavy losses in 1771� Krenitsyn died on his way back� The sea logs of Levashev that contained ethnographic material about the Aleuts of Unalaska Island were thankfully preserved� The Academy of Sciences continued organizing a series of expeditions from 1768 to 1774� The expeditions of the German academician Peter s� Pallas (1741–1811) are worthy of mention in this context� Pallas worked in Russia on the right and left banks of the Volga, the Orenburg steppes, Southern Urals, Western Siberia, Eastern Siberia and the Transbaikal regions (1768–1774)� The results of these expeditions were pub- lished in his major works: Journey through Various Provinces of the Russian Empire (Saint Petersburg, 1788) and Collection of Historical Data about Mongol People (Saint Peters- burg, 1776–1801)� The latter, two-volume research has been of extrinsic value for the study of historical ethnography to date, as it is based on genuine Mongol manuscripts� In this context it is also worth mentioning the expeditions of his disciples: the expe- ditions of Vasily F� Zuev (1754–1794) to Mangazeya, across South Russia (Crimea, Bessarabia) and to Turkey; and the expeditions led by Ivan i� Lepyokhin (1740–1802) to the Volga Region and Orenburg steppes, the South Transurals region and Middle Transurals region� In his work entitled Description of Peoples of Other Religions – the Ostyaks and the Samoyeds, Living in Siberian Guberniya in Berezovsky Uyezd1, Zuyev accurately de- scribed for the first time the way of life of the Khanty and the Mansi, comparing them with each other� In addition, he depicts the reported exogamy among the Ostyaks as well as other features of life of Ural families� Daily Notes of Travel across the Provinces 1 “Guberniya” = governorate; “uyezd” = county� 120 MARIAM M. KERIMOVA, FORMATION OF RUSSIAN ETHNOGRAPHy (1750–1850) of the Russian State (Saint Petersburg, 1795, 4 parts) by Lepyokhin contains valuable ethnographic essays about the material and intellectual culture of the Mordovians, the Chuvash, the Tatars, unbaptized Kalmyks and their Lamaist clergy (Part 1), the Bashkirs, the Voguls, the Komi-Permyaks and the Zyrians, the Russians Pomors and others� After the death of Lepyokhin, the fourth volume of his Daily Notes was finished and prepared for publication by his companion and disciple Nikolai Y. Ozeretsko- vsky (1750–1827)� Under the instruction of Lepyokhin, Ozeretskovsky himself led additional expeditions – from Arkhangelsk to Kola then to Mezen and further to the East, as he describes in the 4th volume of Daily Notes� Ozeretskovsky, already being an academician, later traveled around the lake Ilmen, the Ladoga and Onega lakes and other regions of Russia� In his Review of Areas from Saint Petersburg to Staraya Russa and the Way Back (Saint Petersburg, 1808), he provides a series of ethnographic sketches� In addition, as a Russian patriot he paid attention to the fact that the Russian people were oppressed and thus suffered seriously, but he nevertheless believed that it was essential to reckon with the power of enlightenment� The origins of the revolutionary- democratic stream in Russian ethnography that originated later can be traced back to these progressive figures of Russian science of the eighteenth century� ETHNIC OVERVIEW OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE As a result of long-term scientific expeditions, travels and the systematic collection of material on preconceived programs, Russian science possessed a vast stock of eth- nographic information on the majority of peoples of Russia in the last decades of the eighteenth century� Based on this information, it was possible to create the first consolidated ethnographic work – a review of the peoples in the Russian Empire, a description of their economy and the way of life� From 1776 to 1780, the complete Description of All Peoples Living in the Russian State (Georgi 1776–1777) was thus ready to meet the growing interest of the educated Russian society in the peoples of its country� The author of this book was Johann g� Georgi (1729–1802), a member of the great Physical Expedition who had returned to Saint Petersburg not long before� The book was published in German in Saint Petersburg and consisted of four parts, the first three of which were published both in Russian and in French� In Georgi’s opinion, the reason for the creation of such work was the necessity to uphold the imperial ambi- tions of Russia� He wrote that hardly any other country in the world had such a wide variety of different nations, remnants of nationalities, and colonies as the Russian state� There wasn’t enough exact knowledge of these peoples, therefore it was necessary to collect information and organize what was accumulated� Georgi drew sources for this major work from his own observations and notes on his trips to observe the Lapland- ers, the Finns, the Cheremis, the Chuvash, the Voguls, the Ostyaks, the Permyaks, the 121 RESEARCHING FOLK CULTURE IN SLAVIC LANDS BETWEEN 1770 AND 1880 Bashkirs, the Meshchera, the Tungus, the Buryats, the Kalmyks, etc� In addition, he used the works of Gmelin Jr�, Krasheninnikov, Pallas, Lepyokhin, Rychkov Jr� as well as the chosen works of foreign scientists� Thus the first consolidated ethnographic work
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