Sevastopol residents about the past of the city: a temporary exhibition is open in Tauric Chersonese

CrimeaPRESS reports:

A large-scale exhibition “Volunteer of Eternity: Legacy of Aron Yakovlevich Gidalevich. To the 155th anniversary of his birth (about Sevastopol and the people of Sevastopol…)”. It will help guests make a journey into the past of the hero city and tell about the man who collected a unique collection of ancient monuments and who had a huge impact on the study of the history and culture of the region.

Aron Yakovlevich Gidalevich was a successful entrepreneur and public figure, a member of the Sevastopol Trade and Industrial Committee and the owner of the Progress printing house. All his life he was passionate about history, was a member of the Tauride Scientific Archival Commission, did not hide his interest in collecting antiquities, and even helped finance excavations in the Crimea. In 1912–1913 he happened to become a member of the archaeological expedition of the Chersonesos Museum under the leadership of R. Kh. Leper on Mangup, and directly lead the work in Tabana-Dere.

The collection of A. Ya. Gidalevich consisted of several thousand unique items, including a numismatic cabinet and a collection of antique ceramics. However, the February events of 1918 interrupted the life of Aron Yakovlevich and predetermined the fate of the valuables he had accumulated — some of them disappeared, and the other was expropriated and transferred from KrymOKHRIS to the funds of the State Chersonesos Museum.

155 years after the birth of the Sevastopol philanthropist and collector A. Ya. Gidalevich and 105 years after his tragic death, the Tauric Chersonese Museum-Reserve opens an exhibition designed to show the monuments from this unique collection — more than 100 items that complement about 50 authentic finds from the excavations of R. Kh. Leper on Mangup in 1912–1914.

This exposition is not just a demonstration of Aron Yakovlevich’s collection. This is a story about pre-revolutionary Sevastopol and its inhabitants. Photographs of the city, newspapers of the late 19th — early 20th centuries, documents of 1918-1920 will help to plunge into the atmosphere of the past. from the Archives of Sevastopol, as well as authentic items from the collection of A. Ya. Gidalevich and excavations on the Mangup plateau. Visitors will learn about the life of Aron Yakovlevich, his contribution to the development of Crimean archeology, the revolutionary events of 1917–1920 in Sevastopol, the expropriation and transfer of the Gidalevich collection to the museum in Chersonese.

It will be possible to get acquainted with the collection of A. Ya. Gidalevich in the small hall of the Antique exposition of the Museum-Reserve from March 3 to April 30, 2023. Opening hours of the exhibition: daily from 9:00 to 17:00, Monday is a day off.

Ticket price: for adults — 100 rubles, for students, students over 16 years old and pensioners — 50 rubles.