K.K.Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich and his reports for the Imperial Archaeological Commission -
К. К. Косцюшко-Валюжинич и его отчеты Императорской Археологической Комиссии
Publication of the materials from the archive of Karl Kazimirovich
Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich, the founder of the museum in Chersonesos, was
rather complicated task. Everyone who participated in this project has
put a part of his / her heart into it. We all worked hard, and you can
see the result now.
Use of this website allows you to trace how the scale of the studies increased year after year (you can see special
time line above), how the excavations were recorded, how Chersonesos we know now was raising from under
many-centuries-deep strata. However, the finds images of those are presented on this site scattered through different
museums long ago, so they could hardly be brought together in reality. We collected them for you in " Photographs " section,
though the drawings of the areas excavated every year are accumulated in " Drawings ".
Texts section is digital version of the " Reports " of the excavations in Chersonesos, published by the
Imperial Archaeological Commission in printed form. " Manuscripts " incorporate photos of manuscript reports by
Kostsyushko; he made his reports in two copies: the first was sent to the Archaeological Commission, and the second
remained in the archive of the museum established by him. The Commission developed printed version of the report on
the background of Kostsyushko's manuscripts.
From 1901, the Archaeological Commission begun to issue, apart from the Reports, its
Proceedings (Izvestiya Arkheologicheskoy Komissii) that published the results of the excavations as
scholarly articles. Several Kostsyushko's reports from this issue (they were not annual), as well as his articles
from the Crimean newspapers have make the " Publications " section.
Those who are interested in ancient inscriptions on stones will find some useful data in the " Squeezes ": here you can
view photos of paper imprints of the inscriptions, which Kostsyushko made with great skill. Now squeezed are the most
fragile articles within the collection and rarely appeared in scholars' hands because of that reason. Virtual squeezes
will be much more available, and one inscription is presented as three-dimensional reconstruction.
In order to make the elements of systematic excavations known to most large circle of history and archaeology
lovers, we need to make English translation of the huge number of pages from our website.
All the translations have been made by historian and archaeologist, in result of which the nineteenth century
archaeological " Lexicon " developed. It will help modern reader understand some specific features of the style of
the reports.
Here is the brief guide to our website, which is called after the most popular address to
Kostsyushko from the correspondence: "Dear Karl Kazimirovich…" Brief biographic essay will make our website's visitors
understand why this person was so respected by the contemporaries.
Although the process of he site development was very hard for all of us, Kostsyushko's industry and his utterly
devotion to his work were the great example to us. In the year 2007 we will celebrate the 160th birthday
and the 100th anniversary of the death of Kostsyushko. By publishing this resource in the Web, we would
like to honour these dates and to make Kostsyushko's life and merits widely known to the public.
We are thankful for help and support to the authorities of the National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos,
our colleagues from the Institute of Classical Archaeology and Harry Ransom Humanity Research
Center of the University of Texas at Austin, USA. Our gratitude is to wonderful person
Glenn Mack who inspired us for realization of this and many other projects.
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See also: Open Access Journal: Отчеты Археологической Комиссии
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