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This exhibition is located in one of the ground-floor
galleries of the Winter Palace (architect Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli,
mid-18th century). The first part of the exhibition features the culture
and art of the tribes which inhabited the south Russian steppes during
the Sarmatian age and the period of the great migration of peoples.
Here one can see articles from the famous Novocherkassk Hoard, a unique
complex of Sarmatian art rich in gold, silver and bronze articles
discovered in the Khokhlach Barrow and dating from the 1st century
A.D. Fascinating specimens of Byzantine art, including the silver
amphora of the 4th century A.D., come from a burial of a barbarian
chieftain found near the village of Kochesty in Rumania. The second
part of the gallery is occupied by the exhibition devoted to the artifacts
of the Finno-Ugrian peoples dating from the 7th to 14th centuries.
Of particular interest and artistic value is the collection of metal
sculpture from the area of the Kama River dated to the 3rd-8th centuries.
This kind of art is known as the Perm Animal Style. The objects were
mostly found on cultic sites or as buried treasures. |
