Кунсткамера (музей) и другие археологические собрания николаева, их создатели и передача одесскому обществу истории и Древностей в 40-х годах XIX века
The Kunstkamera (Museum) and other archaeological collections of Nikolaev, their creators and the transfer to the Odessa Society of History and Antiquities in the 1840s

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the history of the Black Sea Navy bodies in Nikolaev, which, in the 1800s-1830s. were engaged in the collection, preservation and exhibition of ancient, mainly antique and Roman objects, inscriptions and coins. Most of them came from the ruins of the nearby city of Olbia Pontica and other places in the Northern Black Sea region, but some of the antiquities, as well as the Ottoman inscriptions, were brought from Athens, from the islands of the Mediterranean Sea and from the coast of the Caucasus (the Anapa Fortress). The exhibits had different origins: purchases from robber-diggers, chance finds, gifts from individuals, war trophies, and even from special excavations conducted under the guidance of naval officers at the ruins of Olbia Pontica, at Chersonese near Sevastopol, and at the sanctuary of Achilles (Tendrovskaya Spit). It is noted that in the creation of the collections of the Cabinet of Rarities at the Depot of Maps, their replenishment and even in the transfer to the Odessa Society of History and Antiquities, the leading roles were played by well-known freemasons – admirals I.I. Traverse and A.S. Greig, Count M.S. Vorontsov, and many others. As a result, most of the very valuable artifacts ended up in the funds of the Odessa Archaeological Museum, where they are kept to this day. The location of some of the rarities is unknown.

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