News
30 September 2020
THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITIES STUDIES ABDI HAS PRESENTED A NEW BOOK ON QAZAQ CULTURE AND MODE OF LIFE IN THE 19TH CENTURY.
The Institute for Humanities Studies ABDI and the ABDI Company JSC in cooperation with the Russian Ethnographic Museum have published a new book:
Qazaq Culture and Mode of Life. Album of drawings by V.N. Plotnikov, dated 1859–1866. From the Collection of the Russian Ethnographical Museum / Edit. By K. Uskenbay. Almaty: ABDI Company JSC, 2021. 254 p. Scholarly edition. «The Qazaqs. History and Culture» series.
For the first time, a unique album of watercolor drawings of Qazaq household items, made in 1859-1866 by Vladimir Nikolaevich Plotnikov (1832-1875) is published in full. In total, the album contains 45 sheets with 253 images.
The publishers have accompanied the album with a preface and an introduction, several original research materials on the life, work, and creative heritage of V. N. Plotnikov, scholarly comments on the images of the album, as well as a glossary, a bibliography, and indexes.
The undoubted advantage of the book is the publication of 120 rare archival and museum photographs and drawings as direct analogues of the drawings of the album.
The book is meant for to researchers, teachers, students, museum workers, as well as a wide range of readers interested in the history and culture of the Qazaq people.
Read about this and much more in our new book!
The book can be purchased at the stores of the ABDI Company JSC. Product code 265144. Price 12000 tg.
Qazaq Culture and Mode of Life. Album of drawings by V.N. Plotnikov, dated 1859–1866. From the Collection of the Russian Ethnographical Museum / Edit. By K. Uskenbay. Almaty: ABDI Company JSC, 2021. 254 p. Scholarly edition. «The Qazaqs. History and Culture» series.
For the first time, a unique album of watercolor drawings of Qazaq household items, made in 1859-1866 by Vladimir Nikolaevich Plotnikov (1832-1875) is published in full. In total, the album contains 45 sheets with 253 images.
The publishers have accompanied the album with a preface and an introduction, several original research materials on the life, work, and creative heritage of V. N. Plotnikov, scholarly comments on the images of the album, as well as a glossary, a bibliography, and indexes.
The undoubted advantage of the book is the publication of 120 rare archival and museum photographs and drawings as direct analogues of the drawings of the album.
The book is meant for to researchers, teachers, students, museum workers, as well as a wide range of readers interested in the history and culture of the Qazaq people.
Read about this and much more in our new book!
The book can be purchased at the stores of the ABDI Company JSC. Product code 265144. Price 12000 tg.