The world's largest collection of antique times, Khazar Kaganate passed on Tuesday as a gift to the State Historical Museum (SHM), Vice-President of the Russian Jewish Congress, the head of the Institute of Middle East Yevgeny Satanovsky

the world's largest collection of antique times, Khazar Kaganate passed on Tuesday as a gift to the State Historical Museum (SHM), Vice-President of the Russian Jewish Congress, the head of the Institute of Middle East Yevgeny Satanovsky. According to the director Alexander GMM Skin, sent collection includes about 1,860 artifacts V-XI centuries, relating to the history of the Khazar Kaganate. This state existed in the Lower Volga and the eastern part of the North Caucasus, and its official religion was Judaism.

«Khazar Collection» formed in 2000 as part of the scientific project of the Russian Jewish Congress, one of the areas of work which is to support academic and research programs. The collection presented, in particular, gold jewelry and silver, household items, weapons, parts of horse trappings, jewelry tools, ceramics, Byzantine and pozdnerimskoe glass. According to experts, most of the subjects are unique and have no direct analogues in museum collections.

As Satanovsky, the entire collection is collected by lawful means. «Since 2000, my colleagues archeologists undertook serious measures to put in circulation, these archaeological objects found in private collections», - said Satanovsky. According to him, «for a long time in very large numbers of people in our country, accumulated a very large number of different collections (belts, weapons, etc.)». «None of the exhibit is not the subject of« black Archeology »and not stolen from the archeologists», - has assured Satanovsky.

Total cost of such collections in the world market, according to the donor, «millions». «It is like that these things are not left outside Russia, where they found, beyond civilization, in the basement where they are», - said Satanovsky.

Study of the history of the Khazar Kaganate, in the opinion of Congress, it is essential not only to identify the historical context of Jewish tradition with the period of forming the foundations of Russian statehood, but also for the understanding of the early period of Russian history. According Satanovsky, Khazar Kaganat, which coexisted peacefully Judaism, paganism, Christianity, Islam - was «very tightly closed» for research during the Soviet era. «Russia - the territory where it was before Ryurikovichey the state of world significance. Khazar Kaganat was one of the four superpowers Middle Ages, and in our textbooks is nothing about it. This is a bridge from Asia to Europe, from north to south, and this loss is part of the history of Russia, which can only be proud of », - said the agency interlocutor.

When asked about the most expensive collection of exhibits, Mr. Satanovsky said that personally he is the first of the collection - two axes, remarkably similar to the Indian tomahawk, and a number of spearheads.

Director Alexander GMM Skin is said that the channel «Khazar Collections» Museum shows the revival of traditions of the major donors of XIX - beginning of XX century, will help educate young people and the country's total population and will attract additional attention to the historical museum. «This is a significant enrichment of the collection of medieval archeology, especially in Khazar and its relations with neighboring nations», - said skin. He hopes to make a «serious and profound exhibition» of the Khazar state and its neighbors, with the participation of other museums and the publication of the directory. The preparation of the exhibition, according to Director of GMM requires two years and money.

In the meantime, through one or two weeks of continuous exposure GMM will showcase exhibits from 20-30 «Khazar collections». The items are expected to change once a month. «This is the first time passed a tremendous amount of archeology. All that is here, should be the heritage of the State », - said at the ceremony of transferring the collection of representative Rossvyazohrankultury Victor Petrakov.

Source: www.rian.ru