«Этнографический портрет» обских угров в свете путешествия Е. М. Корнеева

Abstract

Introduction: in the general historical and intellectual context of travels in the late XVIII – early XIX centuries, reconstructing the prevailing ideas of travelers, the article analyzes the engravings of E. M. Korneev – a famous Russian engraver, master of view graphics, traveler of the turn of the XVIII–XIX centuries. Objective: characteristics of images of the Ob Ugrians through the prism of travelers’ ideas of the late XVIII – early XIX centuries, and their visual representation on the example of the works of E. M. Korneev. Research materials: engravings by E. M. Korneev published in Rechberg’s album «Peoples of Russia». Results and novelty of the research: the theme of representation of the images of the Ob Ugrians in the illustrated editions of the late XVIII – early XIX centuries on the example of engravings of E. M. Korneev from the album «Peoples of Russia» is poorly studied. This article examines the historical, intellectual and artistic context of creating of engravings of E. M. Korneev; analyzes the sources used for their creation; in comparison with academic publications of the second half of the XVIII century, the links between the image and the text are revealed. The relevance of the work is due to the study of engravings of E. M. Korneev as the source in the context of «visual ethnography». The scientific novelty consists in the study of the visual representation of the Ob Ugrians in illustrated publications of the early XIX centuries on the example of Korneev’s engravings.