Each museum of the Far Eastern Federal District has its own history. Mystical, which is usually told with a significant lowering of the voice.
The last warning
“In our Grodekov Museum of Local Lore, when we were doing the exposition“Priamurye without Wars and Revolutions,”female security guards complained about night calls from funds sealed under alarm,” the correspondent said. "K" is the organizer. - Horror! Then they sanctified! The priest came and everything stopped. And before that, at the opening of the ethnography hall, our poet portrayed a shaman.
In Yakutsk, in the local history museum, the mummy of a young girl - the daughter-in-law of the Moruk hero Aba Uos Diorgo - was kept for a long time. The guards and caretakers always complained that she made noise at night. T. Zakharova, an employee of the VOKHR, even attacked in reality. I grabbed it and did not let go. Zakharova herself told the story. Even because of this incident, she resigned from the private security."
“The institute was built in 1995,” said Vladimir Popov, a local historian from Yakutsk. - An archaeological museum was organized on the ground floor in the early 2000s. Until that moment, accumulations of materials from the Prilensk archaeological expedition were kept here. Including numerous human material. So that's it. The guards of the institute (and they were then armed with PM) in 1995-2003. with a shudder they began their night watch. They said that in an empty building at night someone was running around, stomping heavily on the stairs. They called this phenomenon "Cheburashki".
Since the museum was organized, and human bones from the excavations were taken into the courtyard in the closet, this phenomenon has ceased to frighten VOKHR. And so, I remember, I was late until midnight at work. I leave the office - Egyptian darkness. It was autumn. For some reason, the lanterns were not lit on the street. They were saving something. And then I touch the stairs and go down from the fourth floor. Downstairs I hear screams. And when he was already descending from the second floor, the nerves of Uncle Kolya's guard could not stand it: he twitched the shutter of the trellis and howled: “The last warning! I'm shooting!"
Well, I yelled: "Uncle Kolya, what are you, take away the gun, it's me, Popov from office 402!" Everyone knew about the Cheburashkas, but no one saw them. And here from the second floor my legs are visible between the steps. And I relentlessly went down … Of course, Uncle Kolya got a lot of trouble."
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Another story happened in Vladivostok. And also with a mystical touch.
On January 4, 1945, Vrubel's drawing "Flying Demon" disappeared from the storerooms of the Arsenyev Museum in Vladivostok. They found the drawing only in 2005 in Moscow and returned it to the Primorskaya Art Gallery. But it is not easy to see it today - it is safely hidden in the storage of the Primorsky Art Gallery and is not exhibited in the light of day.
Evil forces
Until now, he connects with the distant ancestors of the inhabitants of Primorye and Khabarovsk the most significant exhibit of the Khabarovsk Regional Museum named after Grodekov - Mangni. “Three growths in it. Mangni's belly is empty so that he is always hungry. His arms are intertwined with snakes so that they are flexible in a fight. That Mangni has a lizard on his feet to run fast. He has a bird in his chest instead of a heart. On the chest there is a copper circle, polished, like the sun shines to blind enemies. Everything is reflected in that copper circle”.
Mangni came here in August 1911, when Arseniev brought from the Udege camp on the Ulengou River (now the Losevka River), the left tributary of the Kusun River (Maksimovka River, Terneisky District), a complex of guardians of the Udege shaman. It included six large-sized sculptures: the chief seven Mangni ("manga ni" - "strong man"), armed with a saber, a spear and a sword on his head; Mangni's assistants, the Seven Ni, are anthropomorphic figures with the same formidable pommel-swords.
These images were supposed to protect the shaman and his home from evil forces. And two seven Nakase of inverted rhizomes of trees served as a kind of table for sacrifices. Today this complex of a shaman from Kusun is the main exhibit of the Khabarovsk Museum and is located in the “Culture of Indigenous Peoples” hall, along with fragments of the abode of spirits - the sacred tree of the Udege shaman “tesun”.
According to the museum keepers, sometimes someone walks here at night, sometimes an alarm goes off spontaneously … So, for example, it happened at the same time at midnight for several days in a row. The alarm was triggered by movement. Then they called the police and technicians. The hall has been fully inspected, but no one has been found. The alarm was found to be operational. And the next night it all happened again.
Somehow disappeared from the complex, and then the largest seven in the "Smoke-Yaga-Tyenku" exposition also unexpectedly appeared - the assistant to the shaman udehe - the most terrible beast (with wings and snakes-modules carved on the back), which, according to legend, could fly and swim. This seven depicted the most dangerous and revered animal among forest people - the leopard.
“The Udege shaman complex, which we have on display, was once called upon to protect the tribe from evil spirits,” said Tatyana Melnikova, deputy director general of the museum for scientific work. - According to legend, it was on this shamanic pillar that the spirits (Sevens) settled, where they rested. So, one fine day an elderly man came to our museum - a shaman and asked: how, do the spirits make noise at night? We did not know what to say … The guards heard some rustles. But everything can be imagined.
Then the stranger conducted a ritual in the hall of ethnography - this is such a special ritual-sacred action, when contact with the spirits is established. We have heard how, referring to the things on display, he said: "This will be your home, and live here." He told us that the spirits who could not find peace will henceforth live on the shaman tree. And he also advised: put a small bowl of vodka next to the sevhens. Like, then the spirits will not rage.
Of course, it is not always possible to pour vodka. There is one peculiarity: if the vodka in the bowl will stand for a long time, then, again, according to legend, devils move into it, and then a real riot of things and spirits will happen. And who will drink vodka? So we don't pour. Unless on a cleaning day and on great holidays, when our employees remember that they need to splash a little, soothe the spirits.
I believe that in any museum there should be some kind of mystery, a ghost, a bundle of energy. A museum spirit, so to speak. After all, we have a lot of religious exhibits, bearing the aura of the owner, the memory of words, age-old prayers. Why doesn't this information sometimes break out? This is where the ghosts in the museum come from. Who saw them?"
“I can't sit in the hall for a long time,” the caretaker of the hall told journalist Konstantin Pronyakin in 2013. “As if something were pressing. The shaman from the Lower Amur advised me this: you tell the spirits: "I love you!", They will not disturb and will not. The shaman's advice helped out more than once. From visions. Or maybe from ghosts …"
Yuri UFIMTSEV
