Russian Imperial Museums and Armenian Traditional Culture

Owind to the efforts made by different expeditions, individual archaeologists, starting from early XX century, valuable samples of Armenian material culture have been collected in notorious Russian museums. Russian Museum of Ethnography in St. Petersburg, in particular, hosts a large collection put together from various regions of historical Armenia, which is constantly exhibited and studied. Hayk Hambardzumyan spoke with Lusine Ghushchyan, Senior Researcher in the Russian Museum of Ethnography.