Abstract
The study is aimed at restoring the main stages of the expeditionary work with the participation of famous artists in collecting materials to create types of localities and settlements in the vicinity of Lake Baikal in the second half of the 19th – early 20th centuries. Archival documents about the activities of E.E. Meyer, S.E. Vronsky and B.I. Lebedinsky as part of research groups. It is proved that the plots of the paintings of Western travel artists differed from those similarly made by local masters. This phenomenon is due to the fact that foreign and metropolitan artists lacked deeper knowledge in determining localities, highlighting the features of the region, thereby they missed many important details. The work of artists focused on the creation of works that presented the surroundings of Baikal extensively and from different angles. The artists showed the completed canvases to the residents at public exhibitions, in the future, many works remained in the funds of local museums. In the archives of the Irkutsk Regional Art Museum. V.P. Sukachev and the State Archives of the Irkutsk Region, personal files and materials on the activities of such artists as E.E. Meyer, S.E. Vronsky and B.I. Lebedinsky. The collections preserved detailed correspondence between museum staff and relatives of the painters, impressions and reviews of contemporaries, exhibition visitors, clippings of articles from pre-revolutionary periodicals, which must be presented in this article. The study confirmed that in the process of organizing and conducting expeditionary work by the scientific community, new types of neighborhoods of settlements in the Irkutsk province and the Trans-Baikal region were created. The activities of scientists and artists focused on studying the cultural and natural heritage, replenishing the museum's funds with paintings that depicted the region, highlighted its features and development prospects.
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