History of the collection of antiquities of the Lower Angara region, collected by I.I. Avgustovsky (based on materials from the Yenisei Museum-Reserve)

The article examines the history of acquisition and transfer to museums, as well as the composition of the collection of ancient items of the exiled Narodnaya Volya member I.I. Avgustovsky. The collector lived at the end of the 19th century in the Zaledeevo village, Kezhemskaya volost, Yenisei district. During the period of exile on the Angara region Augustovsky accumulated a significant collection of stone tools, iron and bronze items, anthropological and osteological remains, as well as household items and shamanic cult of the Tungus. Most of the finds were collected in the Lower Angara region, mainly at the mouth of the Chadobets River, where the exile lived. After Augustovsky’s death, the finds were transferred to the Yenisei Public Museum, and the most interesting items – to the Historical Museum and the Hermitage. Restoring the history of the collection became possible thanks to the correspondence of the head of the Yenisei Museum A.I. Kytmanov with local and provincial officials, which preserved in the archives of the Yenisei Museum-Reserve. In 1899, after the death of the Augustovsky, the provincial administration instructed Kytmanov to conduct a property and scientific assessment of all items in the collection. This information was transferred by the governor to the Imperial Archaeological Commission and the Moscow Archaeological Society. The surviving inventory of objects made it possible to present the total number and representativeness of finds. The majority of the archaeological items in the collection were stone products. Arrowheads and chopping tools dominated within the stone tools. The collection of iron and bronze items included celts, arrowheads, knives and other categories of finds. Metal items from Augustowsky's collection were transferred to the Imperial Archaeological Commission in 1900. Among them were celts, hummer-axe, knives, jewelry and objects of shamanic worship.

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