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Abstract. The article analyses expedition sketches of professional artist Lyudmila Mikhailovna Pozdeeva from the collections of the National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan and the “Miraskhane” Written Heritage Center of G. Ibragimov Institute of Language, Literature and Art of the Republic of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences, which were made by the master during the expeditions of 1926 and 1927 under the leadership of N. I. Vorobyev. Costume complexes of Tatars of different subethnic and ethnographic groups are analysed. Particular attention is paid to the scientific component of L. M. Pozdeeva’s work, the consistency of the sketches to written sources, museum materials and expedition photographs. The author of the article identified nine watercolours and one graphite pencil sketch, which depict the clothes of men and women of different ages. The pieces were made in the Chelny, Chistopol, Sviyazhsk, and Tetyush cantons, in settlements such as Nizhneye Bishevo, Kainly, Akbulatovo, Stary Tatarsky Adam, Molkeevo, Stary Kurbash, and Bakorchi (Bakrchi). Some images are duplicated by photographs, which became the visual accompaniment to the texts of N.I. Vorobyev’s academic publications. The sketches by L.M. Pozdeeva found by the author of the article fully correspond to the photographic images, which is evidence of the precise reproduction of what she saw during the expeditions. The artist chose different angles of the characters in national clothing, thereby creating not just an ethnographic copy, but an artistic image.

Keywords: L.M. Pozdeeva, N.I. Vorobyev, images, watercolours, drawings, expedition, Tatars.

For citation: Gatina-Shafikova D.F. (2024) Artistic and figurative sketches by L.M. Pozdeeva from expeditions with N.I. Vorobyev. Istoricheskaya etnologiya [Historical Ethnology]. Vol. 9. No. 5: 796–809. https://doi.org/10.22378/he.2024-9-5.796-809 (In Russ.)

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About the author: Dina F. Gatina-Shafikova, Research Fellow of the Department of Ethnological Research, Marjani Institute of History of the Tatarstan Academy of Sciences (7 Baturin St., Kazan 420111, Russian Federation); https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5210-8687; e-mail: golocen@yandex.ru

Received 28.05.2024 Revised 14.08.2024   Accepted for publication 2.09.2024

Published Online 14.10.2024