Moscow University
Anthropology
Bulletin
Anthropology
Bulletin
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Anuchin Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Mokhovaya st., 11, Moscow, 125009, Russia
Lock K.E., e-mail: lokkkris@rambler.ru; Perevozchikov Ilya V., e-mail: perevozchikovev@mail.ru; Sukhova Alla V., Ph.D., ORCID ID: 0000-0002-8809-3592, e-mail: alla-sukhova@bk.ru; Tikhomirov M.N., e-mail: orienter@list.ru
In connection with the 200 anniversary of the Patriotic War of 1812, it was decided to make a more detailed anthropological description of the portrait gallery of participants in the war, created by G. Dawe and his assistants A.V. Polyakov and V.A. Golike in the period from 1819 to 1828. We had in our disposal about 330 portraits. Of these, approximately one third were in origin foreigners (mostly Baltic Germans). The sample was analyzed by descriptive characteristics and analysis of composite images. The authors conclude that Military Portrait Gallery of the Winter Palace can serve as an important source of anthropological composition of Russian nobility. All major classification characteristics which were stud-ied can be taken for the standard of the mid European anthropological variant. The main differences be-tween the Russian and German parts of our sample lie in pigmentation. The German part of our sample has noticeably more lighter pigmented eyes and hair. In turn, Russian officers of the 1812 war, are lighter pigmented than the Russian nobility of the 18th and 19th centuries.
anthropology, the Patriotic War of 1812, officers, nobles, composite portrait, the war Gallery of the Winter Palace
Цит.: Lock K.E., Perevozchikov I.V., Sukhova A.V., Tikhomirov M.N. Anthropological description of Russian officers early 19th-century based on portrait paintings of the Winter Palace War Gallery // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2012; 3/2012; с. 4-11
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