Rare historical photographs from private collections 4. The origins of our museums: private collections in Russia. Collection of hotel requests

Private collections exhibitions always arouse interest in me. If only because there are few such exhibitions. This collection focuses on conceptual art and surveys the changing face of portraiture from the turn of the last century to the present day through photographs, drawings, sculpture, video installations and paintings by leading international and Israeli artists.

Yigal Akhuvi's collection consists of more than 1500 works, and is the largest in Israel. The fifth series of exhibitions features works by Diane Arbus, Andy Warhol, Marlene Dumas, Richard Prince, Amadeo Modigliani, Frank Aurbach and many others.

All works provide not only aesthetic pleasure, but also inspire. For example, when I saw a photo of Ingmar Bergman's muse Liv Ullman, I immediately wanted to watch the film with her participation "Persona", because it is impossible to stop looking at her.

It is worth noting that the vernissage was attended not only by people of art, but also by local representatives of the secular society, which is a rarity for such events. Among the guests could be found producer Moti Rife, model Galit Gutman, as well as Anna Bukstein and Michal Anski.

And, despite the fact that there were many people around, we managed to get to know each other and ask a few questions to the exhibition curator Matan Daube.

Matan started his career as an art critic of the portal TimeOut Tel Aviv, and then was directly involved in the creation of the art fair.

- Tell us a little about your path.

- I am currently in London most of the time, working with the largest and most prominent private art collection in Israel. I am also one of the regular organizers of the Fresh Paint fair.

- When did the collection start to form?
- Only in 2004. The collection is currently on display in Tel Aviv, London and Geneva. We are not faced with the task of promoting art, we want to diversify the life of the Israeli audience.

- Where will the next exhibition take place?
- I don't know, anywhere in the world.

- What should be the first step of a curator who wants to make an exhibition?
- First of all, he needs to understand for whom he is doing it, who will come to her, and who will be able to enjoy her.

- Do you personally collect works of art?
- Yes, I collect, mostly artists and galleries with whom I work donate their works to me.

The following 10 old photos are published on the net for the first time and open a new section of our magazine. The presented photographic materials have not yet been published on the Internet, newspaper and magazine press and book editions. It is known that "a picture is worth ten thousand words," and the emotion it creates is even more expensive. On the other hand, hundreds of thousands of unattributed, taken out of context, photographs without signatures and accompanying information are poured into the network every day, becoming, alas, "information garbage" that can be admired in some cases, but which does not give anything "to the heart. not mind. "

Our first 10 photographs relate to the history of the "bear's corner of the Moscow region" - the village of Fryanovo. Unique photographs are presented in the exposition of the Local History Museum of the MOU Secondary School No. 2, which, it should be noted, is not so easy to visit. The selection of photographs is rather random, but it is supplied with excerpts from the previously unpublished memoirs of local residents ...

The above photo was attributed as "Gendarme Administration of the Bogorodsky District". However, it is known that such an institution did not exist. There was the "Moscow provincial gendarme administration", from which the affairs of the Bogorodsky and Dmitrovsky districts were in charge of the assistant to the head of the Provinces. Gendarme Office (in 1909, for example, captain Nikolai Pavlovich Martynov). Most likely, the photo shows the clerks of the Uyezd Police Department (police bailiffs of five county camps, police overseers in the city of Bogorodka, Pavlovsky Posad and two factories - the Bogorodsko-Glukhovsky convent and the factory of Tov-va L. Rabenek in Shchelkovo). Photo is undated.
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According to a hint: the photo shows the lower ranks of the army infantry in uniforms of the 1882 model (until 1907): three ensigns as sergeant-major, two sergeant-major, two non-combatant senior rank (most likely clerks) and one corporal. They have nothing to do with the gendarmerie or the police.

Signed: "The oldest wooden building in the village of Fryanovo. XVI century." The last in the Shchelkovsky district "kurnaya hut" with an earthen floor, built in the 18th century and "lived" until 1981/1985, was described by the book of architects-restorers Boris Pimenovich Zaitsev and Peter Petrovich Pinchukov "Solar patterns: wooden architecture of the Moscow region", published in 1978 [ Download.]. The monument of wooden architecture was planned to be moved to the Moscow Regional Museum of Local Lore (since 1991 - the “Historical-Architectural and Historical-Art Museum“ New Jerusalem ”), located in the city of Istra on the territory adjacent to the New Jerusalem Monastery. The hut was bought from the owner, dismantled, but the 90s prevented its assembly in the museum. The hut was irretrievably lost.

A unique photograph of the inhabitants of the village of Fryanovo near Moscow - participants in the Russian-Japanese war of 1904-1905. - three brothers - Stepan, Ivan and Kuzma Starikov ( from left to right).

A rare photograph, signed "Management of the Fryanovsk factory of the Zalogins (before the revolution)". Perhaps the photograph (before 1917) was taken on the territory of the Fryanovsk worsted-spinning factory. In the photo you can find out Sergei Ivanovich Stavrovsky (1870-1924) - factory manager since 1912 (compare) - in the top row in the center of the stairs, and engineer of the French department of the factory, Germain Albertovich Glinzig (1885-1967) - fifth from the left after 4 ladies.

An interesting photograph, presumably, of the participants in one of the many theatrical performances of the drama circle organized by S.I. Stavrovsky. The photo was signed "The intelligentsia of the Fryanovo settlement (before 1917)". Its dating to 1917 is highly questionable.

"The troupe of the drama circle of the village of Fryanovo. In the center is the son-in-law of the manufacturer Zalogin, Stavrovsky." According to the invaluable recollections of Vasily Kuraev, a business associate of the Fryanovsk factory, the famous Russian theater director Konstantin Sergeevich Alekseev (Stanislavsky) (1863-1938), who came to Fryanovo, "was satisfied" with the performances of the Fryanovsk factory theater. The participants of the drama circle were: Ignatov Nikolai Mikhailovich, Urvantsev Ivan Petrovich, Chernikov Ivan Grigorievich, Loginov Vasily Mikhailovich, Kruglushina Olimpiada Nikolaevna, Batenina Maria Sergeevna, Kuraeva Maria [Marina?] Nikolaevich, Urvantseva Zinaida Mikhailovna, A.Butylkin Ivan Andreevich, Soboleva Anna Georgievna. Also, sometimes her brother Sobolev Mikhail Georgievich took part in children's roles.

Photo caption: "1924. Komsomol meeting. The first pioneer detachment was created at this meeting." Presumably, future pioneers in the background are sitting and standing on the railing of the veranda on the southern side of the wooden Fryanovo estate that has survived to this day. On the other hand, the general configuration of wooden structures casts doubt on what has been said, or indicates significant restructuring of that time in a part of the southern portico.

According to the recollections of Vasily Kuraev, the organization of the first pioneer detachment in Fryanovo took place in 1924 as follows: “Alexey Ivachkin was a pioneer leader who graduated from a two-month physical culture course, but his business did not go well. The first pioneer leader was Alexei Stulov as a public assignment. was big and to help him the second pioneer leader was Anna Kuraeva-Rezchikova. When she was getting married the pioneers turned to the secretary of the Komsomol cell Gvozdarev to forbid her to marry, and she worked as a pioneer leader. Soon they sent Ivanov Sergei as a pioneer leader. "

According to the memoirs of one of the first pioneers Fryanov: “At that time we were 12-14 years old, and that was in the 1920s, and there were about fifteen of us such boys [s]. These are: V. Bulanov, A. Beschastnov. , Karpov N., Vorobyov V., Abrosimov B., Aksentiev N., Gruzdevy M. and S., Dolgov F., etc. We all studied at school, and spent our free time on the street, most of all in the so-called Endava, where we played war.We had homemade rifles, sabers, skis were made from old planks from barrels.In summer, uncle Sergei gathered near Batenin's house and listened to fairy tales from evening until late at night, but such that it was scary to go home And he was a great master telling tales.Well, with the onset of the ripening of fruits, the hunt for other people's gardens began, where after our invasion almost nothing was left. We were led by A. Ivachkin, about five years older than us. This continued until 1922. . On the initiative of the Komsomol member S. Rezchikov - "Spartak" (the name Spartak he was given and active work in the Komsomol) A. Ivachkin organized us into a pioneer detachment. In the workers 'palace (the former estate of the Zalogins' factory owners) we were allocated a room called "Pionerskaya", where we spent our time, mostly doing drill training. Then our detachment began to grow rapidly. Girls began to join it. "

One of the painless ways to become famous, landing on the pages of the Guinness Book of Records, is collecting something that no one has collected before (or collected, but not seriously). When choosing items for a collection, you need to make sure that these are not back scratchers or umbrella covers, not petrified and not miniature, with which we will begin this review.

Micro chair collection

In the late 1990s, American Barbara Hartsfield came up with a hobby for the weekend. It was not just shopping, but the search in stores for miniature chairs - one on which a person is not destined to sit, but not a dollhouse either. By 2008, Barbara has collected three thousand interesting miniatures. Nowadays, lovers of tiny furniture have the right to contemplate what they have accumulated in a museum created by a collector in Stone Mountain (Georgia), paying $ 5 for a ticket. The museum operates in a specially restored old building with three exhibition halls. The exposition includes, for example, chairs inside bottles and chairs for feeding birds, chairs made of toothpicks and microfurniture from the Coca-Cola company.

Collection of umbrella covers

Until proven otherwise, the Maine resident can be considered the world's only inspired collector of umbrella covers. Her name is Nancy Hoffman. In 2012, the Guinness Book of Records was enriched with a chapter about her collection, which included 730 covers of various colors and styles from 50 countries of the world. And since 1996, Mrs. Hoffman's house has served as a museum open to all the curious. And while visitors are amazed at the unique display, Nancy, an unmarried musician, plays for them on the accordion the song “Let Your Umbrella Be a Smile” - the official anthem of the private museum.

Petrified Poop Collection

George Frandsen is Indiana Jones in ancient crap, with 1,277 samples of so-called coprolites in his possession, valuable natural history objects for paleontologists that have long ceased to smell. In the summer of 2016, the collection of the 37-year-old Frandsen ended up in the Guinness Book, after which it was handed over to the Museum of South Florida for a thematic exhibition that is worth visiting - that the exhibition will last until October of this year.

Museum guests can admire fossilized poop from 8 countries of the Earth and 15 states of America. Of particular value is the national treasure - the two-kilogram excrement of a prehistoric crocodile, jokingly nicknamed "our beauty" (remember Gollum). Crocodile filth is at least 6 million years old, discovered this jewel in South Carolina.

Collection of hotel requests

One of the ubiquitous symbols of hotel living is the “Do not disturb” sign, which is hung on the door of the hotel room for guests seeking privacy. Tourists are familiar with such plates, why not a souvenir? However, travelers prefer to bring home T-shirts with pictures, key chains or fridge magnets as a keepsake of distant countries. But there are lucky exceptions, among which is the German citizen Rainer Weichert.

The hero of the Guinness Book of Records, Herr Weichert travels a lot around the world and loves to take the mentioned “Do not disturb” signs from the places of overnight stay. The hobby started in 1990, and in 2014 in the collection of Rainer there were already at least 11,570 tablets from 188 countries, brought from hotels and planes, as well as passenger ships. The jewels of the collection are a sign from the Olympic Village in 1936 (Berlin) and a 107-year old plaque from the General Brock Hotel in Canada.

Back comb collection

Manfred S. Rothstein is a dermatologist and has his own clinic in North Carolina. Patients who come to see Dr. Rothstein with a pimple or scabies view the world's richest collection of back combers, collected by Aesculapius over 40 years of practice, for free. Patients like it, very much indeed.

In 2008, the Guinness Book of Records noted that the dermatologist's collection carefully contains 675 samples of various, comfortable and not very funny and serious back comb made in 71 countries of the world. These pieces decorate the corridors of Dr. Manfred Rothstein's clinic, her offices and examination rooms. This selection includes a crocodile comb and its cowboy counterpart made from hand-painted buffalo ribs. There are three electric models, dating from the 1920s, and a particular item under the trade name Bear Butt Comb. Once the doctor collected various medical antiquities - ancient medicines and creams, outlandish dishes and containers, but the love of combing has become a hobby for life, and grateful patients send Rothstein exhibits from different parts of the world - from Japan to Ireland, from Russia to Palau. At the same time, the physician himself does not like to scratch his back too much and considers his hobby to be "professional".

Traffic cones collection

With 500 traffic cones, you can make that mess. Fortunately, a resident of England, David Morgan, does not have such vile plans - he simply collects these cones. The obsession with plastic bollards began when Morgan worked for Oxford Plastic Systems, which produces the largest number of traffic cones in the world. In 1986, a rival company claimed that the people at Oxford had stolen the cone design from it. To prove that the idea of ​​this design is not new to competitors either, David - a rare bore - started looking for identical cones on the roads of the country and ... fell in love with their variety, at the same time winning a lawsuit. Collecting traffic cones has become a lifelong hobby. It should be noted that Mr. Morgan did not steal a single column from his collection, just because these items were created to ensure safety. Today, hundreds of such items adorn the garden of the 74-year-old original.

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