AGRICULTURAL EXHIBITIONS OF THE MOSCOW AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY IN XIX - THE BEGINNING OF THE ХХTH CENTURIES

Issue № 11, 2017, article № 4, pages 22-25

Section: Historical sketches

Language: Russian

Original language title: СЕЛЬСКОХОЗЯЙСТВЕННЫЕ ВЫСТАВКИ МОСКОВСКОГО ОБЩЕСТВА СЕЛЬСКОГО ХОЗЯЙСТВА В XIX - НАЧАЛЕ XX ВВ

Keywords: XIX ВЕК, MOSCOW AGRICULTURE ASSOCIATION, AGRICULTURAL EXHIBITIONS, THE HISTORY OF AGRICULTURE, XIX CENTURY, DATABASES, DIGITAL LIBRARY, CENTRAL SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTURAL LIBRARY

Abstract: There is historical experience of Moscow agriculture association (MAA) in the article that gives an opportunity researchers to draw an analogy between agrarian development in Russia in the 19th- beginning of the 20th centuries and modern condition of domestic agriculture. There was strong insistence on the creative consolidation of Russian traditions and Western European innovations for the best MAA members. The organizing example of MAA agricultural exhibitions illustrates that the activity of this public association contributed to the adaptive and differential usage natural resources for a 100-year period and economy was revived based on science. The main archive MAA is stored in Central Historical Archive in Moscow and contained about 3 million papers. Printed community fund, journals, books, reports, works etc. had been collected in Central scientific agricultural library in Moscow. There is a task for domestic researchers to engage these valuable sources of the history of Russian agrarian thought to scientific circulation. To this end, the work is beginning in Central scientific agricultural library that includes transfer to digital format the historical sources that apart from preserving the texts will make them much more available for wider audience. In particular, the full-text Database “Agricultural exhibitions” is being created, in which will be also reflected MAA papers.

Authors: Nokhrina Valentina Alekseevna