Archaeology

Medieval monuments of VIII — XV centuries ⁴⁶
This section is a part of the collection of the Fund dating back to the period of "Slavic colonization" of the North-West, the times of close contacts of the Slavs with the Finno-Ugric tribes and the Normans, and the formation of Ancient Russia.

These are the complexes of objects found at archeological excavations of the settlement Gordets near Luga (IX-XIII ... ↓
- Early Slavic artefacts of the VII-IX centuries ⁶
- Slavic artefacts of the IX-XV centuries ¹⁰
- Scandinavian and Finno-Ugric cultures of the IX-XIII centuries ¹⁷
  The collection represents jewelry and weapons
- Baltic substrate of X-XII centuries ¹³
  Ornaments made of bronze, found in the Zalahtovye burial at Chudskoye lake .
Urban medieval culture of XIII — XVII centuries ¹⁰
Collection of items from Oreshek and Ivangorod is the largest in the Fund (about 7000 units from Oreshek and 2000 units from Ivangorod). It gives an idea about the history and culture of these cities-fortresses, since the moment of their construction (Oreshek in the XIV century, Ivangorod in XV century), covering the prosperous epoch of the powerful Novgorod-the-Great (Oreshek), the times of the ... ↓
Arhaeology of XVIII-XX centuries ¹⁰
Collection of objects is connected directly with the city of St. Petersburg since its foundation.

This section includes items found during archaeological excavations at the Peter-and-Paul fortress and the historical part of city, during the restoration works in the architectural monuments, and found as lifting material during excavation works as well as the objects coming ... ↓

More than 13,000 items.
The archaeological collection was formed in early 1970s and was expanded with items from archaeological excavations of burial mounds, hills, sites of ancient settlements, embattled cities, etc., located on the territories of Leningrad, Pskov regions and St. Petersburg.

The excavations were funded by the Museum of the History of the City and were guided by well-known archaeologists - O.I.Boguslavskii, A.N.Kirpichnikov, V.I.Kildushevsky, V.A.Colchatov, V.A.Nazarenko, V.P.Petrenko, E.A.Ryabinin, N.V.Khvoshchinskaya, etc.

The collection reflects the whole history of the North-West region of Russia for the chronological period from the VIII to the XX centuries and shows the development of the material culture of diverse tribes and nations, containing at its core not only Russian and Slavic, but Finnish, Scandinavian, Baltic cultures that influenced the process of the emergence and development of St. Petersburg.

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