New biographical information about the artist I.I. Sevryugin and information about his sculptural works preserved in the collections Moscow State University Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology

Abstract

Introduction. The purpose of the work: to publish new information from the biography of sculptor and artist Ivan Illarionovich Sevryugin and genealogical data about his family; as well as for the first time to present new information about masks, busts and dummies made by I.I. Sevryugin for the First Anthropological Exhibition and stored in the Museum of Anthropology of Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Materials and methods. The article is based on the archival documents of the Central State Archive of the city of Moscow (metric books, confessional sheets, audit tales, population census materials); materials from the scientific archive of the Moscow State University Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology (the Museum's Book of Acquisitions, collection inventories), as well as periodicals of the XIX century and other open sources. Historiographical, chronological and analytical research methods were used in the work.

Results and discussion. Based on the studied archival materials, it was possible to clarify the following information from the biography of I.I. Sevryugin. Ivan Illarionovich Sevryugin was born on August 2, 1838 in the family of Moscow workshop worker Illarion Illarionovich Sevryugin and his wife Anna Gerasimovna. Seven children were born in the family, but according to the data we found, three of them died in childhood. Ivan Illarionovich was married to the daughter of the priest of the village of Antonchikova, Kashirsky district, Tula region, Savva Leontievich Troitsky, Anna Savvishna Troitskaya, born in 1845. They had four children: Gregory, Alexander, Philip and Ivan. Alexander and Philip died as children. I.I. Sevryugina was buried at the Lazarevskoye cemetery.

A brief description is given of the sculptural works of I.I. Sevryugin preserved in the collection of the Museum of Anthropology of Moscow State University: masks, busts and dummies, which were created for the Anthropological Exhibition in Moscow (1879) and were exhibited in the Exhibition halls to show the general public the ethnic diversity of the world's population.

Conclusion. Biographical information about Ivan Illarionovich Sevryugin himself, as well as about his close relatives (surnames, first names, dates of life), was supplemented; the burial place of members of the Sevryugin family was established. Masks, busts and dummies created by I.I. Sevryugin, which are kept in the sculptural fund of the photo-illustrative department of the Museum of Anthropology of Moscow State University, are material evidence of the history of the development of anthropology in the country. According to the members of the Committee of the Anthropological Exhibition, I.I. Sevryugin was able to express scientific ideas in an artistic form about the ethnic diversity of the population of Russia and other countries.

Acknowledgements. The study was conducted under the state assignment of Lomonosov Moscow State University.

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