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TWO ICONOLOGICAL NOTES. PUBL. BY S. S. AVANESOV // ΠΡΑΞΗMΑ. Journal of Visual Semiotics. 2017. Issue 2 (12). P. 165-169

Count Aleksey Sergeyevich Uvarov (Mar. 12, 1825, St. Petersburg – Jan. 10, 1885, Moscow) – Russian archaeologist, honorary member of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences, founder and leader of the Moscow Archaeological Society (1864) and the Historical Museum in Moscow (1883); the founder of the Archaeological Congresses in Russia. He conducted archaeological excavations in the south of Russia, in Suzdal and in the Taurida Governorate. Count Uvarov is the author of books “Studies of Antiquities of Southern Russia and of the Black Sea coast” (1848), “The Merya people and their way of life by results of the burial mounds excavations” (1851), “Archeology of Russia. The Stone Age” (1881). He published his articles in the journal “Antiquities” of the Moscow Archaeological Society (since 1865), as well as in the “Archaeological Herald”. He is the founder of the Uvarov Prizes of the Academy of Sciences (1857), named after his father. A. S. Uvarov’s “Collection of Small Works” was published in 1910 to the 25th anniversary of the death of the Count by his widow Praskovia Sergeevna Uvarova (1840–1924). Countess Uvarova is a well-known Russian archeologist and historian; from 1885 to 1917 she headed the Moscow Archaeological Society, having replaced her husband on this position. Two texts from the above-mentioned “Collection” are presented below: 1) a small note about the mosaic “Virgin Oranta” from the basilica of Urs in Ravenna as a prototype of a similar image of the St. Sophia Cathedral in Kiev; 2) a brief remark about the symbolic meaning of the iconographic plot “Savior the Blessed Silence”. The texts are published in the original spelling.