Victor Goloubew
Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin, Boston 13:74 (February 1915), p. 1.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston purchased his collection of Persian and Indian paintings in 1914. He also collected Chinese art. ISG's Votive Stele was purchased from him in 1914, through Berenson.
http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n97-867826/ I.S. 12/15/2017
Victor Goloubew (in Russian : ?????? ?????????? ??????? , Viktor Viktorovich Golubev ), born February 12 , 1878i n St. Petersburg and died on April 19 , 1945 in Hanoi , is an orientalist , French of Russian origin, specialist in archaeological excavations in Southeast Asia .
Doctor in philology and specialized in history of art and archeology. Professor of History of Oriental Art at the School of Oriental Languages and then at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes . Member of the French School of the Far East .
Summary [ hide ]
1 Biography
1.1 In France
1.2 In Indochina
2 Family
3 Publications
4 French decorations
5 Notes and references
5.1 Notes
5.2 References
6 Bibliography
7 Related Articles
8 External links
Biography [ edit :: change the code ]
Victor Goloubew comes from the Russian imperial aristocracy, son of Viktor Fedorovich Golubev (ru) , prosperous civil and industrial engineer, and Anna Petrovna. The parents paid great attention to the education of their son, who acquired extensive knowledge in the field of literature, art, theater and music. Victor played the violin on a Stradivarius and took lessons from a famous teacher Leopold Auer . He paints and speaks several languages.
From 1890 to 1892 he studied at the Karl May School in St. Petersburg . In 1896 , he passed the exams of secondary education, and joined the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the University of St. Petersburg . There he met Michel Rostovtzeff specialist, Scythians and the old Black Sea coast . Goloubew is interested in the differences between the cultures of the East and the West, following the example of his uncle, Alexander Golubev (ru) , researcher on the Pamirand western China. At first, he undertakes, like his father, engineering studies; but Goloubew is more and more passionate about art.
In September 1900 , he married in Kiev Nathalie Cross. In 1901 , the couple moved to Baden . Goloubew enrolled at the University of Heidelberg , successfully prepares and supports his thesis Tragedies Marivaux in the German translation of the xvii th century 1 . In addition to the degree of Doctor of Philology , he receives in 1904 a specialization degree in the field of archeology and art history 2 .
In France [ change :: change the code ]
Settled in Paris with his wife in 1905 , he frequented the arts and literature and met Auguste Rodin, who had a keen interest in the arts of Asia. He sculpted a marble bust from Nathalie who later had a bronze replica 3 .
In 1907 , he published an article on the Mongol races in the painting of Trecento 4 . He is interested in the Quattrocento period and often travels to Italy. He noted traces of the influence of Chinese painting , in the painting of Venetian and Florentine artists. With the help of publisher Gerard van Oeste he published in Brussels extensive work on the designs of Jacopo Bellini , father of a dynasty of artists Italian painters of the Venetian school 5 . The publication was well received by critics, Anatole France met in the lounge of M me Arman de Caillavet observes the taste with which the paintings and their analysis were chosen.
In October 1910 , Goloubew, the writer Charles Müller and other friends went on an expedition to India, where he studied the monastic complex of Ajanta 6 . On his return the following year, Goloubew uses his archives with 1,500 photographs, for the teaching of Indian art, at the School of Oriental Languages at the Sorbonne 7 , where he worked until the First World War. . This material became the basis for the department of documentary photographs of the Musée Guimet (Form BNF n o FRBNF32178788 ) in Paris, formed in 1920. The young scientist has become a recognized expert on the history of Buddhism and the secular art of India and the Far East and meets the famous French orientalists Sylvain Lévi , Émile Senart , Édouard Chavannes . He is widely known in the scientific community. Russian academicians Sergey Oldenburg and Nicholas Roerich note 1 visit and enjoy his exhibitions at the Cernuschi Museum , in 1912 8 and 1913 9 .
Russian ambulance - surgical car.
During the First World War , Goloubew offered his assistance to the Russian ambassador to France, Alexander Izvolski . He is accredited as representative of the Russian Red Cross to the French Government, with the rank of Colonel. He supports a group of Russians headed by Countess Margarita Karlovna von Toll , wife of the Ambassador, Countess Alexandra Constantinovna von Zarnekau (en) , a morganatic daughter of a Duke of Oldenburg , wife of the secretary of the Embassy Leon Naryshkin and his cousin M me Verola who organize under the patronage of the Dowager Empress of Russia, Maria Feodorovnaan ambulance service to pick up casualties on the front line and quickly return them to safety 10 , 11 . He joined the V th Army at the head of one of the cars surgical ambulances financed by the Russian community in France. He rubs Franchet d'Esperey 2 , 12 . In addition, he actively participates in photography and aerial photography that will be useful later. In the years 1916 - 1917 , he served in the Russian Infantry Brigade which was sent on the orders of Emperor Nicholas IIon the French front. In July 1916 , he met General Petain , commander of the II e Army . He was later to see him several times and this partly explains its membership solicited in 1941 the Legion of Combatants of Hanoi 2 .
The Russian revolution deprives Golubee of its main sources of income in Russia. He is forced to sell some of his collections and thinks of a career as a professional musician, because he plays the violin well and owns a Stradivarius . Despite the financial difficulties, he remains faithful to his vocation and after the war resumes his activities in the field of Oriental studies. In 1920, he wrote a note accompanying the publication of an image of Shiva Ardhanariçvara, a double deity, from P'rà PâçhOm in Siam 13 . In 1920 , in Paris, the album of the plates of fourteen Indian sculptures from the Paul Mallon collection which he had studied 14. He directs the publication of the volumes of Ars Asiatica 15 , the plates of which are taken from the Shiva sculpture photographs he had taken in India and in Ceylon in 1911 2 .
He knows Abel Bonnard who had written a book about China and it tu, writer Victor Segalen , the future admiral and Lartigue, Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden orientalist eminent 2 .
He teaches at the University of Paris, where he works as secretary of the University Library. The artist's multi-volume series on the classical art of the Orient, is illustrated by the theater of the Tibetan people. He became a member of the Academy of inscriptions and belles - lettres , member of the French School of the Far East in 1920 .
Victor Goloubew participates in the installation of the EFEO pavilion at the Colonial Exhibition of Marseille in 1922 - 1923 16 .
He was elected a corresponding member of the 5 th section of the Academy of Colonial Sciences since its foundation in 1923 . Secretary General of the Artistic Section of the General Psychological Institute.
He acquires French nationality by a decree of September 4, 1925 2 .
He participated in the International Colonial Exhibition of 1931 17 .
In Indochina [ change :: change the code ]
On August 4, 1920 , Goloubew joined the French School of the Far East . He embarked in Marseille , November 13, with Louis Finot . They arrived in Indochina, Hanoi , on December 9, he left for Angkor with Louis Finot, to see the Bayon and Neak Pean , then went to Banteay Chhmar where were taken many photographs for the collections of the School and at the Colonial Exhibition in Marseille and visit several sites. With Henri Parmentierand Louis Finot, they study, among others, the bas-reliefs of the great temple of Banteay Samré , the temples of Vat Phou , Vat Nokor , the ancient Khmer architecture according to the bas-reliefs of Bayon 18 . On June 19, 1921, after six months of introduction to Khmer studies and courses, he finally arrived at the School's headquarters in Hanoi. It reports 1,200 snapshots and writes reports for the EFSO Bulletin 2 . Assigned to the service of photographic documentation, he specializes in iconographic issues. For more than 25 years, he conducted research in Indochina and became one of the leading archaeologists.
In 1923 he became head of the Department of Studies and Art History. With Louis Finot, he studies the symbolism of the temple dedicated to Amoghapasha Lokeshvara at Neak Pean 19 . In 1926 , he is in charge of excavations at Sambor Prei Kuk . He completes the publication of the study on the iconography of Bal?ha 20 . His researches on the Bronze Age in Tonkin 21 , his excavations in the province of Thanh Hóa , the origin of the bronze drums 22 and the stratigraphy of the ruins of Angkor, are of particular interest in the scientific world.
He is a full member of the EFEO, from 1927 . In 1927 he became librarian of the EFEO He collaborated with George Cades . In 1936 , he became director of the Louis Finot museum. The last decade of his life is devoted to the administrative life of the EFEO He collaborates with Gilberte de Coral Remusat 23 , note 2 .
In 1932 , Victor Goloubew, a close collaborator of Cades, convened the first Congress of Prehistorians of the Far East, in Hanoi.
Victor Goloubew received the Herbert Giles Award from the Academy of Inscriptions and belles-lettres in 1935 for his work on Far Eastern archeology in general and, in particular, on the oldest enclosure in Angkor Thom .
In 1936 , he undertook new air investigations above sites Bantay Prei Nokor , near Kampong Cham , in the region of Angkor and above the plateau Kulen 24 .
In 1941 , he created a Franco-Japanese propaganda body and went on to give several lectures in Tokyo and Kyoto , at the invitation of the Japanese Government and the Society for the Development of International Cultural Relations. Blocked in Indochina by the war, he died in the hospital of Hanoi. His grave has not been preserved. According to some accounts, after 1954 , the French authorities have brought the remains of Goloubew along with others to bury in France 25 .
Family [ edit :: change the code ]
Statue of Viktor Fedorovich Golubev in Parkhomovka
Victor Goloubew comes from the Russian imperial aristocracy, from the hereditary nobility of the city of Oleksandrivsk , from the province of the Ekaterinoslav Government , Ukraine , son of Viktor Fedorovich Golubev, a successful civil and industrial engineer, and Anna Petrovna
His brother Lev Golubev (1876 - 1942), president of the Caucasus Red Cross , chamberlain , State Councilor of the Russian Empire in 1916 , exiled in France in 1920 , living in Biarritz , was married to Alexandra Stepanovna Makarova, the daughter of Admiral Stepan Makarov .
After his departure abroad, in 1901 , his brother Lev Viktorovich Golubev succeeded him in Parkhomovka in the region Kiev in Ukraine , where he committed the Church's construction of the Intercession of the Theotokos, built the charge and under the supervision of the two sons, Victor and Lev Goloubev, in 1903 - 1907 according to the plans of their father engineer. The architect took into account the wishes, notes and observations of the two brothers. Their father, Viktor Fedorovich Golubev, died on February 23, 1903 in Rome. His body was transported to the homestead, where after the completion of the church building he was buried in a crypt of the chapel of St. Victor.
Victor Goloubew met his future wife, Natalie Cross, a few years younger than him, during one of the evenings in the literary and musical salon held by Nadejda Auer (nee Pelican), the first wife of Leopold Auer , to St. Petersburg .
Natalia's parents Basil Cross, son of violinist Gustave Cross (in) , and Zoe E. Pelican's sister Nadezhda Auer, both daughters of Eugene Pelican, personal physician of Tsar Alexander III and teacher. The wedding took place in 1900 in Kiev , from where Natalia's family was born.
Their first son Victor was born in 1901 in Baden , the second, Ivan, in Paris on December 15, 1905 . Ivan returns to Russia with his maternal grandmother. He died during the Siege of Leningrad in 1942 . The traces of the eldest son were found in the Balearic Islands, during the Spanish war , in the navy of Franco note 3 . He then emigrated to America.
In 1908 , during a trip to Italy, Victor and Natalia were introduced to the Italian writer Gabriele D'Annunzio . Natalia leaves her husband for the writer late 1908. She inspires D'Annunzio for the heroine of the novel Leda senza Cigno , written in 1912 26 , 27 . Their liaison lasted until the beginning of 1916 . The generous pension paid to her by her husband was no more than a modest income since the Russian revolution of 1917. In a quarter of a century, she was slowly going down the steps of decadence and misery, selling one by one to survive, her horses then her dogs, her jewels and her bust executed in 1906 byAuguste Rodin , and finally one by one the letters of him to whom she had given everything against the most intoxicating hours of his life. Until 1932 , she holds good at Grange Dame Rose in Meudon . Expelled by her owner, she then fails at the Gare de Meudon hotel where she is agonizing more than she has been in her last years, surviving for three years with the unforgettable lover whose last sign of life had been a telegram of 6 April 1926. She died of acute emphysema in an icy room at hotel de la Gare in Meudon, the 1 st November 1941 28
Publications [ edit :: change the code ]
Victor Goloubew , " Le Cheval Balaha ", Bulletin of the French School of the Far East , t. 271927, p. 223-237 ( read online [ archive ] ) Document used for writing the article
Description of the fresco "Buddhist paintings with skins" published in the "Annals of the Guimet Museum" (vol 40, 1913.).
French decorations [ edit :: change the code ]
Knight of the Legion of Honour Knight of the Legion of Honor in 1912 29
Medal of the French Recognition Bronze ribbon.svg Medal of the French recognition for the services rendered to the cause of the allies since the beginning of the war, 1918 30
Notes and references [ edit :: change the code ]
Notes [ edit :: change the code ]
( ru ) This article is partially or entirely from the Wikipedia article in Russian entitled " ???????, ?????? ?????????? " ( see the list of authors ) .
? In 1906 , Nicolas Roerich made two mosaics for the Church of the Intercession of the Theotokos (ru) in Parkhomovka (ru) , for the family Golubev .
? Gilberte de Coral-Remusat (1903-1943), Project Manager at the Guimet Museum, Corresponding Member of the French School of the Far East.
? Russian go fight in Spain in 1936 in the ranks of the monarchists, the Requetés Voluntarios Rusos Blancos in Tercios Requetés [ archive ]
References [ edit :: change the code ]
? Marivaux 'Lustspiele in deutschen Übersetzungen 18. Jahrhunderts, Heidelberg, 1904, Carl Winter Universities Buchhandelung, p. viii-136 and pi., 16mo (record BNF n o FRBNF30520279 ) .
? a , b , c , d , e , f and g Louis Malleret, The twentieth anniversary of the death of Victor Goloubew (1878-1945) , In: Bulletin of the French School of the Far East. Volume 53 No. 2, 1967. pp. 331-373.
? Notice n o 000SC004793 [ archive ] , Joconde database , French Ministry of Culture
? The Mongolian races in the painting of the Trecento , in Bull of the Society of Antiquaries, 1907, p. 239.
? Jacopo Bellini's drawings at the Louvre and the British Museum , Brussels, Van Oest et Cie, 2 vols., In-4 °
? Charles Muller, five months in India. From Bombay to Colombo , Paris, 1924.
? The Times February 24, 1912 [ archive ] available on Gallica
? Goloubew and H. Ardennes Tizac, ancient Chinese paintings exhibition April-May-June 1912: summary catalog , Paris, 1912 available [ archive ] on Gallica .
? Goloubew and H. Ardennes Tizac, Buddhist Art , Cernuschi Museum, 4 th exhibition of Asian Arts, April, May, June 1913, Summary Catalog, Paris, 1913.
? The Times, March 15, 1915 [ archive ] available on Gallica
? Bernard Isserlis, " Russian Ambulances to the French Armies " [ archive ] , on ASCERF Gazette Online (accessed on April 27, 2016 )
? Recollections of the Marshal Franchet Espèrey 1915-1916 (Form BNF n o FRBNF36275721 ) .
? Antique bronze image of ?iva Ardhandrîsvara from Phrapatom in Southern Siam, reproduced in Collotype from the original in possession of Lieutenant-Colonel Maurice McClean Bidler, with a note by Mr. Victor Goloubew, [London?], 1919.
? Fourteen Indian sculptures from the collection Paul Mallon , described by Victor Goloubew, Paris, nd, 1920. 4to (Form BNF n o FRBNF32178787 )
? (record BNF n o FRBNF37138213 )
? Report on a special mission in France, December 1921-March 1923 , in BEFEO, XXIII, 1923, p. 560-569.
? Victor Goloubew, art and archeology of Indochina, 1931 (Indochina, Volume I, published by M. Sylvain Levi for the International Exhibition of Paris, Publishing Corporation).
? Introduction to knowledge ? Angkor , in Bull, of the French Association of Friends of the East, No. 4, December 1922, Paris, Musée Guimet, p. 3-39, in-16.
? The symbolism of Nak-pan , with Louis Finot in BEFEO, XXIII, 1923, Hanoi, 1924, p. 401-405.
? The Balaha horse in BEFEO, XXVII, 1927, Hanoi, p. 223-237.
? The Bronze Age in Tonkin and northern Annam, 1929 (Form BNF n o FRBNF39402136 ) .
? The metal drum Hoang-Ha (record BNF n o FRBNF34196929 ) .
? The people of Dong-so'n. Tonkin , in Proceedings of the 12th Prehistoric Congress of France, Toulouse-Foix, 1936, p. 753-764, 9 fig. In-8. Communication presented by Mrs G. de Coral-Rémusat. Analysis in BEFEO, 2, 1936, p. 640
? Air reconnaissance in Cambodia , in BEFEO, XXXVI, 1936, Hanoi, 1937.
? Vinogradov, Letter from Curco Golubeva, July 1990, Museum-Institute of the Roerich family in St. Petersburg.
? The secret book of Gabriele d'Annunzio and Donatella Cross , Volume 1, 1908-1923 March 17 March 1910 (Record BNF n o FRBNF31992825 ) .
? André Germain, The love life of d'Annunzio , Paris, 1954, p. 172-224.
? [ archive ] Jehan Despert , A passionate lover of Gabriele D'Annunzio available on Gallica
? The Gauls March 31, 1912 [ archive ] available on Gallica
? News from France: weekly column in the French press October 10, 1918 [ archive ] available on Gallica
Bibliography [ edit :: change the code ]
Louis Malleret , " The twentieth anniversary of the death of Victor Goloubew (1878-1945) ", Bulletin of the French School of the Far East , t. 531967, p. 331-373 ( read online [ archive ] ) Document used for writing the article
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