the State Hermitage museum

This article deals with one manuscript in the archive of The State Hermitage museum. It is entitled “Catalogo della cospicua collezione de’Vasi antichi Italo-greci, de’ vetri, delle terre cotte e de’ bronzi di proprieta del Sig. Cav. Pizzati”. The piece has been written ca 1833 by the outstanding Neapolitan antiquarian and connoisseur Raffaele Gargiulo. The author of present article considers the entries on the Corinthian and Italo-Corinthian vases.

This article is devoted to the collection of the monuments of Russian antiquity, founded by Yury Ozarowsky, the Director of the Aleksandrinsky theatre. In 1914 he opened the “Old little house” historical museum, based on his own collection, in Saint-Petersburg. The author of this article publishes unknown facts and materials about the collection and also reveals Ozarowsky’s activities in the sphere of preservation and popularization of the historical artifacts of 18-19th centuries.