Anastassija Petrovna Manzewitsch

Anastassija Petrovna Manzewitsch ( Russian Анастасия Петровна Манцевич ; * 1899 in St. Petersburg , † 1982 in Leningrad ) was a Russian - Soviet ancient historian .

Life

Manzewitsch's father Petr Pawlowitsch Manzewitsch came from a farming family in Ikasn near Braslau . She graduated from Leningrad University in 1924.

Manzewitsch worked in the Leningrad Hermitage from 1924 . At first she was a research assistant in the Scythian section of the Hellenistic- Scythian department. She received her PhD as a candidate in history . In 1931 she became the head of the new department for ancient cultures at the Hermitage.

During the German-Soviet war she lived in blocked Leningrad . She took part in the evacuation of the Hermitage collections (1941-1942) and worked in hospitals on the Leningrad Front and in Petropavlovsk (1942-1944).

In the post-war years, Manzewitsch continued to examine both the Scythian objects kept in the Hermitage and the newly acquired Scythian finds from Kurgan - excavations on the northern Black Sea coast , so that she was always well informed about new archaeological discoveries. The Kurgan Solocha on the left bank of the Dnieper not far from Kamjanka-Dniprowska , which was examined by Nikolai Ivanovich Wesselowski's expedition from 1912 to 1913, was particularly important . She published her first work on the dating of this Scythian tomb in 1945. She occupied herself with the objects from the excavations there until her death. Her research focus was the ancient history of the northern Black Sea region, so that she became an expert on the cultures of the Scythians, Thracians , Greeks and Romans and the respective interactions. She represented Soviet Scythology at international conferences in Bulgaria (1962, 1976), Yugoslavia (1971) and Romania (1976).

Manzewitsch was a member of the Society for Soviet- Bulgarian Friendship.

Works (selection)

• The Kul'-Oba bracelet . In: Archäologischer Anzeiger . No. 4 , 1931, p. 106-116 .
• A grave find from Chersonese . In: Negotiations of the Academy for the History of Material Culture . tape 2 . Leningrad 1932.
• A Kalitva folyö Melletiikurgán . In: Archaeologiai Értesitö . Budapest 1961, p. 77-81 .
• Leningrado . In: Encyclopedia dell'arte antica . tape IV . Rome 1961, p. 451-456 .
• The relief from Skelka near Olbia . In: Bibliotheca Classica Orientalis. Documentation of the ancient literature of the Soviet Union and the countries of the people's democracy . tape VIII , no. 4 . Berlin 1963, p. 231 .
• Sur l'origine des objets de toreutique retrouvés dans les tumuli de l'époque scythe . In: Reflets d'humanisme . tape 39 . Brussels 1968, p. 3-19 .
• Scythian, Persian and Central Asian art from the Hermitage collection. Leningrad Tokyo Exhibition catalog . Kyoto 1969, p. 3-8, 23-26, 31-33 .
• Sur quelques objets du tumulus de Maicop . In: Apulum . tape IX . Alba Iulia 1971, p. 103-127 .
• Sur l'origine des objets de l'époque scythe d'après les matériaux de l'Ermitage . In: Yearbook of Prehistoric and Ethnographic Art . tape 24 , 1977, pp. 69-78 .
• Sur l'origine des objets de toreutique retrouvés dans les tumuli de l'époque scythe . In: Studies in ancient Jewelery . Löwen 1980, p. 80-105 .
• On the Scythian-Thracian cultural relations in antiquity (with special reference to Toreutics ) . In: 3rd International Thracological Congress . Vienna 1980, p. 130-135 .
• Finds in the Zaporozhe Barrow: New Light on the Siberian Collection of Peter the Great . In: American Journal of Archeology . tape 86 , 1982, pp. 469-474 .

Web links

• List of publications by AP Manzewitsch
• Literature by and about Anastassija Petrovna Manzewitsch in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Catalog of the Russian National Library : Манцевич, Анастасия Петровна

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Манцевич А. П .: Курган Солоха . Искусство, Leningrad 1987 ( [1] [accessed May 11, 2020]).
2. ↑ Manzewitsch AP: Парадный меч из кургана Солоха . In: Древние фракийцы в Северном Причерноморье . Moscow 1969 ( [2] [accessed May 11, 2020]).