Museum history pages

The fate of the museum in Chernihiv was never lenient towards its children, and the museum of church history Chernihiv eparchial antiquities store probably suffered the most abuses. (ЧЕД). It took seven years, to move from words to practical work on forming a collection and creating a museum. For five years, the museum was housed in an educational institution - the theological seminary, practically inaccessible to the average visitor. The full existence of the museum in the House of the Diocesan Brotherhood is in a separate room, with the exposition and visitors - lasted less than three years and stopped during the First World War when the House was converted into an infirmary.

What happened to CHED in the future, can be learned from the diary of Konstantin Ivanovich Samburskyi (1867 (1869)–1934), church minister, краєзнавця, in 1911–1915. custodian of the CEE funds, in 1919–1926. - a freelance employee of the Chernihiv State Museum: “During the eviction from the Diocesan House of the Church Museum (1915 Dr..) all items from the museum were transported to 49 large boxes and 39 large, packed in a mat, packages to the Trinity Monastery. Shop windows have also been moved here. Office of the church museum, i.e. resolutions and all correspondence, as well as a book for recording museum visitors was placed in a special chest. I put the keys to the shop windows in this chest, description of items, left in the pantry in the Diocesan House … the chest was moved to the seminary library. After the capture of Chernigov by the Red Army (in 1919 Dr..) the library was thrown out into the yard, where she stayed for some time, and a chest with stationery and the keys disappeared to an unknown place. … items, which remained as secondary in the storeroom of the Diocesan House was transferred to the courtyard of the Nobles' Meeting and stacked in a pile, from here the part was transferred to ТRetii Soviet Museum (Museum of Manly Life and Arts)”.

In the early 1920s, when the Museum of Manor Life and Arts had already appeared and the organization of the Ethnographic Museum had begun, they also mentioned the collection of the Diocesan Museum. Autumn 1921 Dr.. decided to expand its exposition on the territory of the Trinity Monastery in the abbot's rooms, K. also participated in this work. Sambursky, who was in Chernihiv at that time. “13 October: He worked in the museum from early in the morning. I'm in a hurry to finish the museum. This will be a guarantee, that the building will not be used as a sanatorium (it was about the children of the Volga region). Shugaevskyi and Drozdov are taking care of this. 27 October: Everything is finished in the museum (it is about creating an exposition). The opening of the museum has been postponed”.

The hopes of the museum staff did not come true - an orphanage was placed in the monastery, the museum was closed again.

Teacher 1922 Dr.. In the city center, the Ethnographic Museum was opened in one of Hortynskyi's buildings on the second floor, and the first - they decided to give it to the Museum of Cults, or the Fifth Soviet Museum, the basis of which was the meeting of the ЧЕД. Another transfer of the collection has begun: “With the extreme lack of delivery of the necessary personnel, material, transportation and packaging means, the move has been made, at what, despite all the precautions, died from 15 to 20% of all exhibits - fragile objects of old art, unable to withstand the severity of transportation and carrying”, - it was stated in the letter of the provincial department of public education, to which the museums were subordinated. It seemed, the sufferings of the ecclesiastical history museum are over - a happy end. To. Sambursky took notes: “9 December: Was in the museum of cults. The museum is skillfully arranged. Makes a good impression”.

The Ethnographic Museum was also ready to receive visitors. But the museums had to endure another blow: claims for the house were announced by the provincial health department. This could throw more than half a year's work at the dogs and again look for premises for museums. Provincial education turned to the Academy of Sciences for support, which took care of museums, and the People's Commissariat of Education of Ukraine, that saved the Chernihiv museums.

Finally 1 May 1923 Dr.. The Ethnographic Museum and the Museum of Cults were opened.

House of the diocesan brotherhood, where the church history museum was located on the first floor.

Now here is the Philharmonic Center of Festivals and Concert Programs.

Exposition of the Chernihiv eparchial archive (ЧЕД). 1913– 1914.

Hortynskyi houses, in one of them in 1923–1925. were contained: on the second floor - the Ethnographic Museum, on the first - the Museum of Cults. Now there is a dental polyclinic here.

Scientific secretary of the museum, Ludmila Linyuk