This article is aimed at reviewing the documents and artifacts collections of the prominent Russian specialist in Caucasian studies Evgeniy Mikhailovich Shilling (1892-1953) that are currently stored in the State Museum of the History of Religion. The scientific heritage of Shilling has repeatedly been the subject of scientific research, and a number of articles have been written about Shilling’s cooperation with the Central Museum of Ethnography, as well as his pedagogical work at the Department of Ethnography of the Moscow State University, expeditionary work in the Caucasus in the 1940s, and the materials collected in the field works that are stored in the Russian Museum of Ethnography and the Kunstkamera. However, Shilling’s cooperation with the Central Anti-Religious Museum in Moscow was not under discussion until now. Drawing from documentary sources (The Report on the Caucasus Expedition (1938), typewriting of the unpublished article “Eastern Caucasus Amulets”, Expedition Diary, 1934) this article fill
Original languageRussian
Pages (from-to)528-540
JournalВестник Санкт-Петербургского университета. Философия и конфликтология
Volume35
Issue number3
StatePublished - 2019
Externally publishedYes

    Research areas

  • Caucasus studies, Central Anti-Religious Museum, E. M. Shilling, people of the Caucasus, religious beliefs, study of religion in Russia, Е. М. Шиллинг, Изучение религии в России, кавказоведение, народы Кавказа, религиозные верования, Центральный антирелигиозный музей

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