CHESS ORNAMENT ON THE SCULPTURE OF NIKOLAI MOZHAISKY IN THE OB-UGRIC CULTURE
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Information about authors: Naumenko Olga Nikolaevna, Dr of Historical Sciences, Professor, Ugra State University (Khanty-Mansiysk, Russian Federation). E-mail: oolgann@mail.ru
Annotation: In article on the basis of cultural-historical psychology and the analysis of a unique collection of decorative and applied art of the 17th–21st centuries the processes of transformation of the Ob Ugrians’ culture of shamanism are discussed. This led to the formation of the people with syncretic culture, the Ob-Ugric Istiaks. The action of the frontier, which moved it from the countries of Islam, as well as through contacts with the Siberian Tatars, led to the enrichment of the culture of the Ob Ugrians due to the rapid process of external borrowing. The authors note that the Ob Ugric people was formed under conditions of “poor living environment,” was originally prepared for a cultural transformation in the framework of the adoption necessary for the survival of norms. The article emphasizes that the Orthodox missionaries were late in relation to these groups of the Ob Ugrians, as by the 18th century, Islam in the regional version has become part of their spiritual and daily life. In addition, unlike Islam, Orthodoxy did not provide the necessary degree of survival in the difficult conditions of the Siberian North. Evolutionary processes have led to merging the Istiaks and Siberian Tatars, which became one of the ways to acquiring the latest sustainable features of the Ugric culture. The author analyzes the decoration feloni on the wooden sculptures of Nikolai Mozhaisky of the 17th century. He compares them with the ornaments of indigenous peoples of the North, Christian and Muslim cultures. Attention was drawn to the chess ornament used by the missionaries. In the process of analysis several hypotheses of its origin are put forward from the connection with the Greek Orthodox and Masonic cultures to the reflection in it of northern traditions and the Muslim giriha in its Siberian variant.
Keywords: Ob Ugrians, Islam, cultural-historical psychology, Western Siberia, traditional culture, istaks, Ob-Ugric Art, Orthodox.
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Information about authors: Naumenko Olga Nikolaevna, Dr of Historical Sciences, Professor, Ugra State University (Khanty-Mansiysk, Russian Federation). E-mail: oolgann@mail.ru
Annotation: In article on the basis of cultural-historical psychology and the analysis of a unique collection of decorative and applied art of the 17th–21st centuries the processes of transformation of the Ob Ugrians’ culture of shamanism are discussed. This led to the formation of the people with syncretic culture, the Ob-Ugric Istiaks. The action of the frontier, which moved it from the countries of Islam, as well as through contacts with the Siberian Tatars, led to the enrichment of the culture of the Ob Ugrians due to the rapid process of external borrowing. The authors note that the Ob Ugric people was formed under conditions of “poor living environment,” was originally prepared for a cultural transformation in the framework of the adoption necessary for the survival of norms. The article emphasizes that the Orthodox missionaries were late in relation to these groups of the Ob Ugrians, as by the 18th century, Islam in the regional version has become part of their spiritual and daily life. In addition, unlike Islam, Orthodoxy did not provide the necessary degree of survival in the difficult conditions of the Siberian North. Evolutionary processes have led to merging the Istiaks and Siberian Tatars, which became one of the ways to acquiring the latest sustainable features of the Ugric culture. The author analyzes the decoration feloni on the wooden sculptures of Nikolai Mozhaisky of the 17th century. He compares them with the ornaments of indigenous peoples of the North, Christian and Muslim cultures. Attention was drawn to the chess ornament used by the missionaries. In the process of analysis several hypotheses of its origin are put forward from the connection with the Greek Orthodox and Masonic cultures to the reflection in it of northern traditions and the Muslim giriha in its Siberian variant.
Keywords: Ob Ugrians, Islam, cultural-historical psychology, Western Siberia, traditional culture, istaks, Ob-Ugric Art, Orthodox.
