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Archaeological Committee


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ARCHAEOLOGICAL COMMITTEE, an organisation and research centre of archaeology in Russia. It was founded in St. Petersburg in 1859 under the Ministry of the Imperial Court and Apanages, meetings were held in the Winter Palace. In 1889, it was granted an exclusive right to permit and supervise archaeological digs in Russia, apart from on private land. Other activities included protecting and restoring architectural monuments and art and publishing annually Reports between 1859 and 1912, News with 66 issues published since 1901, a series of fundamental Materials on Archaeology of Russia with 37 volumes published between 1866 and 1918, etc. The committee was headed by Count S. G. Stroganov, Prince A. A. Vasilchikov, and Count A. A. Bobrinsky in various years. Archaeologists P. P. Pokryshkin, A. A. Spitsyn, B. V. Farmakovsky, and V. V. Latyshev were among its members. The committee was reorganised in 1918 with the Russian Academy for the History of Material Culture established on its basis (see Institute for the History of Material Culture).

Reference: Платонова Н. И. Российская академия истории материальной культуры: Этапы становления (1918-1919 гг.) // Сов. археология. 1989. № 4. С. 5-16.

O. N. Ansberg.

Bibliographies
Платонова Н. И. Российская академия истории материальной культуры: Этапы становления (1918-1919 гг.) // Сов. археология, 1989

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