Abstract
Cultural heritage preservation became one of the key topics of public discussion in the Late Russian Empire. These discussions led to the establishment of several initiatives for protecting Russian cultural heritage. This article demonstrates that such initiatives developed a variety of different strategies for heritage-making. Examples from the Society of the Protection and Preservation of the Monuments of Art and Antiquity in Russia and the Society of the Revival of Artistic Rus’ show that several strategies of heritage-making focusing on cultural heritage preservation were developed simultaneously by different civil groups and helped cultivate the interest of the state authority in the subject, an interest which later became institutionalised under the Soviet regime.
Highlights
In his book Iz proshlogo russkogo obschestva, the historian of the revolutionary movement in Russia, Vasilii Bogucharskii (1904) described the feeling of being limited in action, which was experienced by the members of the Russian intelligentsia in the 19th century
The aim of this article was to demonstrate that the formation of heritage preservation practices in Russia was significantly associated with the work of private intellectual/artistic circles as part of the development of Russian civil society
The independent players in pre-revolutionary Russia became essential contributors to cultural heritage preservation. They succeeded in establishing practices that became a standard in the field of heritage-making
Summary
In his book Iz proshlogo russkogo obschestva, the historian of the revolutionary movement in Russia, Vasilii Bogucharskii (1904) described the feeling of being limited in action, which was experienced by the members of the Russian intelligentsia in the 19th century. As I will demonstrate in the example of the Late Russian Empire, the authorities, in forming official cultural policy, are dependent on discourses, cultivated and driven by non-governmental cultural organizations and independent practitioners Representatives of both the state and cultural communities formulate their ideas in shared discursive field and rely on each other in the formulation of key concepts and ideas. Despite both societies developing a discourse on heritage-making, they interpreted cultural heritage differently and proposed different ways of preserving it. I summarise how civil society initiatives influenced the formation of official cultural policies
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