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| 2021-06-03 |
| Direct Translation of the article [Regnum] The State Historical Museum has opened the exhibition “Vikings. Way to the East ". The exhibition is based on archaeological materials from the museum's funds and is dedicated to the life and culture of immigrants from Scandinavia. “Exhibition“ Vikings. Way to the East ”is the first experience of anatomical display of Scandinavian antiquities in Eastern Europe. For a century and a half, the topic carried the burden of ideological disputes about the role of immigrants from Scandinavia to Eastern Europe. Our task was to show the real life and activities of the people who were called Vikings on the territory of Western Europe, and on our territory the Varangians played completely different roles on the territory of Western Europe and here, ”said the exhibition curator Veronika Murasheva. The central image of the exhibition will be the reconstruction of a ship - a symbol of military and trade campaigns. The process of the military development of river routes will be demonstrated by items of retinue culture: weapons, armor and equipment of an equestrian warrior. Among them is a unique collection of helmets. One of them has survived only in fragments and was exhibited for the first time accompanied by a 3D reconstruction. Recently discovered hoards of silver coins will illustrate the extensive trade ties of the Vikings, from Eastern Europe to the Arab Caliphate. “The era of the Vikings lasted from the end of the 8th to the middle of the 11th century. In this era, the "people of the north" - the Normans, terrified the inhabitants of Western Europe with their unexpected and brutal raids. But in Eastern Europe, the Vikings played a completely different role - mastering the river routes to the riches of the Arab Caliphate and the Byzantine Empire, they were a catalyst for socio-economic processes that ultimately led to the formation of the Old Russian state, ”says Director of the State Historical Museum Alexei Levykin. Natives of Scandinavia were not only fearless warriors, but also skilled artisans - jewelers, blacksmiths, bone carvers. The exhibition presents sets of silver and bronze with gilding women's jewelry, as well as reconstructions of outfits made by modern craftsmen using ancient technologies. The main exhibit in this section is a 10th century Chinese silk dress for women, which has no analogues in other museum collections . A separate part of the exhibition is devoted to the results of the latest research of the museum's archaeological collections, carried out jointly with the National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute". For the first time, the materials obtained as a result of excavations of the last years of the Smolensk archaeological expedition of the Historical Museum are presented. After the completion of the restoration work, a complex of objects found during the study in 2018 of one of the richest burial mounds of the Gnezdovo archaeological complex was exhibited. The complex includes a sword, gold Byzantine coins, a set of jewelry, playing chips and much more. Photos at the link |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #4 ^Call me Moshe ben Wulfgar. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-06-03 13:27 |
| #3 Scratch any northern European, even some southern Europeans, and you're likely to find a Viking. Those guys got around. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2021-06-03 13:23 |
| #2 QUESTION Since the Asia/Russian migrants arrived via Alaskan/Russia land bridges in North/Central/South America 100's of years before White Europeans (Vikings/Columbus). Shouldn't they be blamed for Slavery instead? |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2021-06-03 07:13 |
| #1 immigrants from Scandinavia It's white on white so we won't call it colonialism? You know when outsiders come in and kick ass, pillage, loot, and make themselves the new bosses. The Rus' people were an ethnos in early medieval eastern Europe. The scholarly consensus holds that they were originally Norse people, mainly originating from Sweden, settling and ruling along the river-routes between the Baltic and the Black Seas from around the 8th to 11th centuries |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2021-06-03 06:52 |