title: The Religious Theme in the Work of Grigory Gurkin
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metadata.value: Shchebrova, Svetlana Ya.
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metadata.value: 2024-09-17T21:06:46Z
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metadata.value: 2024-09-17T21:06:46Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2024-06
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metadata.value: Shchebrova, Svetlana. “The Religious Theme in the Work of Grigory Gurkin”. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Arts 14, no. 2 (2024): 336–362. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu15.2024.206 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu15.2024.206
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/47539
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metadata.value: The article explores the religious theme in the works of Grigory Ivanovich Gurkin (1870–
  1937), the first professional artist of the Altai Mountains. A talented master of landscape, a
  pupil of Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin, Gurkin became widely known after his first solo exhibition
  in Tomsk in 1907. During the February Revolution he was elected chairman of the Altai
  Mountain Duma, for which he was politically persecuted by the Bolsheviks and had to hide
  in Mongolia and Tuva from 1919 to 1925. Homesickness forced Gurkin to return to the Altai
  Mountains, but he remained politically unreliable for the Soviet authorities, and in 1937 he
  was shot by the NKVD. After his rehabilitation in 1956, Gurkin’s life and work became the
  subject of many studies, and after the establishment of the Altai Republic in 1992, Gurkin became
  a figure-symbol of national and cultural identity. In the conditions of reconstruction of
  Burkhanist and shamanistic practices in the Republic, it is relevant to study Gurkin’s pictorial
  and graphic works depicting religious beliefs that existed in the Altai Mountains in the late
  19th — early 20th centuries. As a result of culturological and semiotic analysis, the interpretation
  of the artist’s works on religious themes is supplemented. The first painting on the theme
  of shamanism “Sacrificial Night” or “Kamlanie” (1895) revealed profane and sacred elements:
  the peculiarities of the material culture of the Kumandins and the theme of the sacred tree, the
  mirror-like surface of water and the symbolic unity of the worlds of the shamanic universe.
  From this work, reality in Gurkin’s painting and graphics is supplemented by mythological
  representations. In the painting “The First Ray of Christianity in Altai” Gurkin combined Orthodox
  and pagan pictures of the world to show the contradictory nature of the Christianisation
  process. Chet Chelpanov’s portrait contains a psychological characterisation of the leader
  of Burkhanism, and Gurkin’s detailed comments help to determine the time of the emergence
  of new phenomena in the religious culture of the Altai Mountains.
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metadata.value: The research was supported by the Russian Science Foundation within the project no. 22-18-
  00018 “Ethnosophy of Altai: Ideology and Mythology of National Consciousness”.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Arts;Volume 14; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: G. I. Gurkin
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: orthodoxy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Christianisation of the Altai Mountains
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: shamanism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Burkhanism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Chet Chelpanov
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: national images of the world
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Religious Theme in the Work of Grigory Gurkin
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metadata.value: Article
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