The collection of the house-museum contains a diploma, which confirmed that the writer Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak was a member of the Ural Society of Natural Science Lovers (USNSL). A copy of the document is on the wall in the room of Yelizaveta Mamina, the writer’s sister, (married name — Udintseva).
A copy of the document is on display in the exhibition. The original is kept in the archive, as it was badly damaged during a fire in the museum in the early 1950s.
The diploma is printed on thick yellow paper. Specialists recreated the burnt spots, soot and worn edges like the ones of the original document. At the bottom, there is a signature of Ivan Ivanov, the president of the USNSL, and Alexander Mislavsky, the vice-president, as well as the illegible signature of the secretary. There is a handwritten diploma number on the side: “No. 483”, and on the torn edge of the cardboard, there is a blue seal of the organization.
The Ural Society of Natural Science Lovers was founded in 1860. It was one of the biggest scientific and local history organizations in the Russian Empire and remained the only center of social and local history movement in the Urals for a long time.
Onesime Clerc, a French teacher of the men’s gymnasium, initiated its creation. There, the society was gathered for the first time. The zoologist Vladimir Alenitsyn, the historian Narkis Chupin and others were among the founders. There were 80 people in total. Most of them were representatives of the Urals intelligentsia. Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak received his diploma on October 27, 1884.
The society has a library and museum. It contained a rare natural and historical collection of the Urals. For example, the zoological department had 6500 exhibits. Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak donated to the exhibition a heel bone of a mammoth, which he had found during excavations.
In 1925, the museum and library left the society and received the state status. A large collection of artifacts was transformed into the Sverdlovsk Regional Museum of Local History, which now bears the name of Onesime Clerc, the founder of the USNSL.
The museum’s collection contained Mamin-Sibiryak’s personal items, copies of photographs, and manuscripts. In the 1940s and 1950s, they were given to the Mamin-Sibiryak Literary Museum in Sverdlovsk (now — the United Museum of Ural Writers).
A copy of the document is on display in the exhibition. The original is kept in the archive, as it was badly damaged during a fire in the museum in the early 1950s.
The diploma is printed on thick yellow paper. Specialists recreated the burnt spots, soot and worn edges like the ones of the original document. At the bottom, there is a signature of Ivan Ivanov, the president of the USNSL, and Alexander Mislavsky, the vice-president, as well as the illegible signature of the secretary. There is a handwritten diploma number on the side: “No. 483”, and on the torn edge of the cardboard, there is a blue seal of the organization.
The Ural Society of Natural Science Lovers was founded in 1860. It was one of the biggest scientific and local history organizations in the Russian Empire and remained the only center of social and local history movement in the Urals for a long time.
Onesime Clerc, a French teacher of the men’s gymnasium, initiated its creation. There, the society was gathered for the first time. The zoologist Vladimir Alenitsyn, the historian Narkis Chupin and others were among the founders. There were 80 people in total. Most of them were representatives of the Urals intelligentsia. Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak received his diploma on October 27, 1884.
The society has a library and museum. It contained a rare natural and historical collection of the Urals. For example, the zoological department had 6500 exhibits. Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak donated to the exhibition a heel bone of a mammoth, which he had found during excavations.
In 1925, the museum and library left the society and received the state status. A large collection of artifacts was transformed into the Sverdlovsk Regional Museum of Local History, which now bears the name of Onesime Clerc, the founder of the USNSL.
The museum’s collection contained Mamin-Sibiryak’s personal items, copies of photographs, and manuscripts. In the 1940s and 1950s, they were given to the Mamin-Sibiryak Literary Museum in Sverdlovsk (now — the United Museum of Ural Writers).
