In the Museum will show a unique brocade dress tenth century
ARTinvestment.RU   23 октября 2012

Presentation of a unique artifact will be held tomorrow, October 24, at 12:00, in anticipation of a large exhibition "Sword and zlatnik. By the 1150 anniversary of the ancient Russian state, "which opens in the Museum of History November 1, 201

GIM, October 24, 12:00
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October 24, 2012 at 12:00 pm at the State Historical Museum will be a presentation of a unique artifact of the tenth century - brocade dresses Gnezdovo necropolis. The presentation is on the threshold of major exhibition of "The Sword and zlatnik. By the 1150 anniversary of the ancient Russian state, "which opens in the Museum of History November 1, 2012. Unique brocade dress will be included in its exposition.

women's clothes from thousands of years ago are preserved, as a rule, only metal and glass costume details - buttons, buckles, brooches (brooches). More surprising preserved almost entirely ceremonial dress of a noble woman in X., Found in one of the mounds female. He came to us because he was very tightly packed in tuesok of birch bark, which has antiseptic properties.

Nest - one of the largest archaeological sites epoch of the ancient Russian state (the end of IX - beginning of XI century), located near Smolensk, on the famous route "from the Varangians to the Greeks." Gnezdova population consisted not only of the Slavs - a large part of the inhabitants were from Scandinavia. Start of the study of the monument was laid by one of the founders of the Museum of History Uvarov. Historical Museum has the largest collection of artifacts produced during the excavation of the monument.

Fragments of dress were discovered during the research of one of the mounds of nesting in 1982 and transferred to the Historical Museum. Initial restoration was performed at the Research Institute for Restoration them. Grabar. The research allowed to determine that the box contained two silk dresses, silk, silk finish indefinite articles, linen dress, linen woven product (sprang) and woolen cloth. The most interesting parts are the first dress.

It has a wonderful and complex cut pattern. The centerpiece of the dress is balanced story composition, which is based around the disk, presumably moon. The best preserved sculpture of a griffin's head bird of prey, soft paws and wings. Next to it is the dragon, which is likely to hold for the griffin's paw. Flexible body dragon partially closed bizarre clouds.

painstaking work of restoration specialists of the Research Group "Phenomenon" allowed to preserve and recreate a rare example of a medieval costume. They collected a dress of many disparate fragments, each of which has been carefully crafted and strengthened.

As a result of this work the world has found another unique monument of decorative art. Similar attire of a noble lady of the tenth century does not contain any one museum collection in the world. Restoration work was supported FONDAZIONE ANGELO GALASSO, Italy.

Source : Press Release SHM