АЛТАЙСКИЕ ДРЕВНОСТИ В РАБОТАХ ЕВРОПЕЙСКИХ УЧЕНЫХ И ПУТЕШЕСТВЕННИКОВ XVIII - НАЧАЛА XX В

Abstract

Since the first scientific research in Altai, the works of European scientists have repeatedly become the subject of historiographical analysis. Their colleagues-contemporaries have already turned to the works of their predecessors. Since the last third of the 18th century, interest in the antiquities of the Sayano-Altai in general and the Altai Mountains, in particular, falls into the sphere of state interest related to the development of mining production. At the beginning of the 19th century, scientists who turned to the study of antiquities already had the opportunity to rely on the experience of their predecessors, and by the beginning of the last third of the century, the work on the study of the distant past of Altai can be called large-scale for its time. This paper presents information about the Altai antiquities collected in the works of the participants of the Dorpat expedition of the 30s of the 19th century, the Altai period of V.V. Radlov, the expedition of I.G. Granet, etc.