Путешествие В. С. Голенищева в Египет осенью и зимой 1890–1891 гг. (новый архивный материал)

Шаги/Steps. 2023. Т. 9. № 1. С. 206–229.

Ladynin I. A.

The publication presents a document preserved at the Archives of Vladimir Golenischeff at Paris (Centre Wladimir Golénischeff, École Pratique des Hautes Études). This is a report about the travel of the outstanding Russian Egyptologist Vladimir Golenischeff to Egypt that lasted from October 1890 to February 1891. Probably, this is a preliminary version of a paper that had to be in due course submitted to Zapiski Vostochnogo otdeleniya Imperatorskogo Russkogo arkheologicheskogo obshchestva (Memoirs of the Oriental Department of the Imperial Russian Archaeological Society). The paper is kept in the same file of red cardboard with its pencil drafts, sketches and plans made by the Egyptologist during his travel. The report has not been published. It contains evidence about Golenischeff’s acquisitions for his collection (now at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow; among the other things he purchased the papyri with the famous texts of Wenamun’s Voyage to Byblos and the Onomasticon of Amenemope), about the survey of archaeological monuments (most importantly, at the Kharga Oasis), about his new interpretations (the correct attribution of the so-called “Hyksos sphinxes” to Amenemhat III of Dynasty XII). Of special interest is the information about Golenischeff’s participation in the official reception at Egypt of the Russian heir apparent Nicholas Alexandrovich (future Emperor Nicholas II) and about some degree of tension between himself and the British officers at the Egyptian service, due to the contemporary confrontation of the Russian and the British Empire in the Big Game at the East.

Keywords: Египет, путешествие, Egypt, travel, В. С. Голенищев, Golenishchev Vladimir, русская египтология, russian egyptology