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This room (originally an anteroom in the apartments
of Nicholas I's daughters) retains the decor created
by the architect Alexander Briullov in 1838-39. The display is devoted
to the Palaeolithic era (2 million to 10,000 years ago). It includes
very ancient artefacts - stone cutting tools found at an early Palaeolithic
site (Satani-Dar in Armenia). The late Palaeolithic age produced the
exhibits found at Malta (in the basin of the River Angara) and Kostenki
(in the Don basin) - tools and ornaments made from flint, bone, horn
and mammoth ivory. Particularly interesting are mammoth ivory female
statuettes and plaques depicting snakes and a mammoth. |
