Освещение деятельности Виленского музея древностей и Виленской временной археологической комиссии в белорусской историографии второй половины XX - начала XXI вв.

ENIt was not until the second half of the 20th century that consistent research into the activity of the Vilnius Museum of Antiquities and the Vilnius Temporary Archaeological Commission began in Belarusian historiography. In the 1970s, the historians Savely Akulich and Mikalay Ulashchyk addressed this topic. In 1971, Akulich published the article “The Museum of the Brothers Tyszkiewicz”, and twenty years later, in 1992, another article titled “The Fate of the Lahoysk Museum”. In 1973, Ulashchyk published an important monograph “Essays on the Archaeography and Source Research of the Feudal Period in Belarusian History”, in which he emphasised the activity of the Vilnius Temporary Archaeological Commission from 1858 to 1862. The history of these institutions did not remain unnoticed by one of the most prominent biographers of Eustachy and Konstanty Tyszkiewicz and a researcher of their museological activity, Henadzi Kachanouski - at first in his monograph “Archaeology and Historical Regional Ethnography in Belarus from the 16th to the 19th Centuries”, Minsk, 1984, and later, in the biography “The Fosterer of Our Antiquity: Eustachy Tyszkiewicz”, Minsk, 1992 written together with his son, Aliaksandr Kachanouski. In 1995, the article “Tyszkiewicz’s Museum of Antiquities: Destruction” by Anastasia Gulak came out. Referring to the diary of the so-called Committee for the Improvement of the Vilnius Museum of Antiquities published in 1865, the author described the reorganisation of this institution bringing out the different views of Eustachy Tyszkiewicz (1814-1873) and Arkady Stolypin on Lithuanian heritage. In the book “The Birth of the Belarusian Museum” published in 2001, and in the article “Belarusian Collectors and Society - A Long Way Towards Understanding” published ten years later, Aliaksandr Huzhalouski wrote about the collections of the Vilnius Museum of Antiquities.In the paper “The Museum of Antiquities” written in 2007, Adam Maldzis raised the question of returning the objects, which had been taken away from the museum to Moscow, to Belarus. In the recent years, Belarusian researchers have been drawing-more attention to the Vilnius Museum of Antiquities. In 2012, the article “The Formation of the Belarusian Museum: From the Radziwills to the Tyszkiewiczs (i6th-i9th C.)” by Aliaucina Davidovich and Irina Korneyenkova was published. A year later, two articles by Aliaksandr Smolik, “The Fathers of National Museology and Archaeology” and “Count Konstanty Tyszkiewicz: A Scholar, Archaeologist and Regional Ethnographer” appeared. In the same year, Iryna Voicik published the article “Eustachy Tyszkiewicz: A Preserver of Antiquity”, and in 2014, “The Brothers Tyszkiewicz: The Founders of Belarusian Archaeology and Museology”) by Aleg Trusav came out. Eustachy Tyszkiewicz’s collections or individual exhibits are mentioned both in Tacyana Nikicenkas article “Bells in the Collections of Belarusian Museums”, 2011 and in the article “Globular Amphorae and New Explanations of Antique Finds from Tyszkiewicz’s Collection in the Collections of the Museum of Regional Ethnography of the Vitebsk District”, 2013 by Natalya Sharkouskaya. From 2008, the material of the (almost) annual conference “The Tyszkiewicz Readings” organised on Smoliks initiative is published.Articles on the activity of the Vilnius Museum of Antiquities and the Vilnius Temporary Archaeological Commission can also be found in encyclopaedic publications. E.g. in 1994, two articles by Henadzi Kachanouski - “The Vilnius Archaeological Commission” and “The Vilnius Museum of Antiquities” - were published in the second volume of “The Encyclopaedia of the History of Belarus”. [From the publication]