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ГЛАВНАЯ > Exhibitions > Ruriks

В истории… всякую новую, «разрушительную» идею
сначала опровергают, а потом начинают доказывать,
что она совместима со старыми мыслями

С.И. Поварнин



Nowadays every Russian is aware of the expressions: “mission of Varangians”, “Rurick”, “ Varangian legend”. What’s behind them all?

Does the above legend mean true events of the 9th century? Is Rurick a realistic character?
If so, what is the true mission of this prince in establishing the Russian country?
Are these and those archeological monuments results of his activities? If not, who has left them for us?

Our exhibition shows the materials which can clarify all these questions although partly. Now people’s interest to their own history is often rudely played on.

To look into a great number of impressive versions having little in common with the real way of things is beyond the power of an ordinary reader.

Recently mass media has broken the news devoted to the monumental burial mound (“hill”) Shum-Gora. This hill was assumed to serve as a burial place of prince Rurick. The materials we present may give an idea of this unique hill of the medieval Europe, the settlement Peredolsky Pogost close to it (where people who created that hill lived), the hills as such, in accordance with the latest information.

As well, the exhibition discloses materials about prince Rurick, not as a “legendary hero” but a person alive who lived very bright life and left a track in the history. You will have a chance to learn much about his close relatives and descendants, see Rurick’s genealogical tree (for the period of 8th - 11th centuries), understand the contribution the modern archeology makes in recollecting events in the Northern Rus’ 1000 - 1100 years ago.
The exhibited materials were granted to the Museum by the Institute for the History and Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences (archeological digs of N.I. Platonova), S.S. and M.S. Alexaschin who made a rich collection of the materials of Peredolsky Pogost. Scientific consultant is senior research assistant of the Institute for the History and Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences, candidate of historical science N.I. Platonova.

The exhibition is sponsored by the newspapers “Delovoy Petersburg”, Okhta Group company and restaurant “Odin”. Exhibition initiators highly appreciate the help of Richard Högberg, head of Bonnier Business press in Saint-Petersburg, and Dmitry Kiselev, Vice Chairman of the management Board OOO Okhta Group. But for their attention the exhibition wouldn’t be organized.


Exposition
1. Geographic location
a) map of the place
b) reconstructive plan of the settlement, hills and others.
c) photographs of location and graphic pictures

2. Hills
a) Shum-Gora (seismography of the hill and other materials of the modern researches)
b) Snall hill (the only hill where archeological digs took place)

3. Settlement PEREDOLSKY POGOST, or “Olga’s Pogost”

4. Rurick and first Rurickoviches in Rus
a) genealogical tree of Rurickoviches starting from Scandinavian time
b) Legends related to Shum-Gora and one of Rurickoviches
c) Symbiosis of Scandinavian and Slavic cultures, foundation of Rus. Ethnic groups in the north-west

5. Old Russian administrative Center on the territory of Peredolsky Pogost of Olga
a) Articles found by S.S. and M.S. Aleksashins

6. Historical and patriotic movement “Vitiaz”
a) Reconstruction of the scandinavian decorations of the viking’s epoch
b) Reconstruction of scandinavian dresses and arming.


At the opening the historical and patriotic movement “Vitiaz” will stage a show of hand-to-hand fight according to the ancient scandinavian sagas (“Saga about Egil”, Saga about Neyal”).

Date: April 29 - June 30 (open from 10.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m., except Tuesday)

Admission free

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Organizers:

- Sophia Kasim, museum director.
Museum “700 years - Landscrona, Nevskoe Ustye, Nyenskans”

- Nadezhda Platonova, archaeologist, author of the articles for the exhibition.
The Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences

- Sergey and Michael Alexashin, students of local lore of the Batetsky region, Novgorod province.

- The historical and patriotic movement “Vitiaz”