Conferences, seminars

II National Conference

Methods of technological and expert research of archival documents,

photographic documents, manuscripts and books

18–19 October 2011

Location: ROSPHOTO State Museum and Exhibition Centre for Photography.

35 Bolshaya Morskaya street, St.-Petersburg. Front Building Conference hall (3^d floor).

Conference program

Tuesday, 18 October

10⁰⁰ – Registration of participants

1100–14⁰⁰ Morning session

Denis Tsypkin (ROSPHOTO State Museum and Exhibition Centre for Photography, St.-Petersburg), Nikolai Kornyshev (Rastr Scientific Research Institute for Industrial Television, Novgorod). General use of electro-optical methods in expertise of historical documents.

Marina Toropova (Russian Federal Forensic Expertise Centre at the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, Moscow). Evaluation of comparative age of previously agressively treated documents.

Coffee break

Lyudmila Sysoyeva (Head Investigation Department of Investigation Committee of the Russian Federation in St.-Petersburg). Key problems of Russian signature expertise.

Alexander Zinin (O. E. Kutafin Moscow State Law Academy). Methods of expertise of portrait images as historical documents.

Konstantin Barsht (Pushkin House Institute of Russian Literature at the Russian Academy of Science, St.-Petersburg), Boris Raikhel (Alt-Inform, St.-Petersburg), Tatyana Sokolova (National Library of Russia, St.-Petersburg). Use of digital spectrophotometry method for expertise of a manuscript (by the example of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Siberian Diary).

14⁰⁰–15⁰⁰ Lunch break

15⁰⁰–18⁰⁰ Afternoon session

Fyodor Vladimirov, Vladimir Yelokhin, Vladimir Gotlieb (Nauchniye Pribory, St.-Petersburg). Use of hyperspectral analysis methods in forensic expertise of documents.

Boris Picheyev, Vladimir Yelokhin, Vladimir Gotlieb (Nauchniye Pribory, St.-Petersburg). Contemporary methods of forensic expertise of surface relief of paper documents.

Konstantin Arkhipov (Researh Institute – branch of Goznak, Moscow). Use of x-ray microanalysis methods for expertise of paper.

Coffee break

Olga Derkachyova (St.-Petersburg State Technological University of Plant Polymers). Infrared spectroscopy analysis of historical paper.

Irina Lyubchenko (Bruker, St.-Petersburg). BRUKER Optics contemporary analytical equipment.

Irina Grigoryeva, Kseniya Chugunova (State Hermitage, St.-Petersburg). Use of spectral methods for expertise of museum objects.

Wednesday 19 October

11⁰⁰–14⁰⁰ Morning session

Yekaterina Lotsmanova, Yelena Bystrova (Federal Centre for Conservation of Library Holdings, St.-Petersburg). Identification of fibers in XVI century paper.

Yevgeniy Lyakhovitsky (National Library of Russia, St.-Petersbug). Contents of watermark collection data bases.

Coffee break

Yelena Shepilova, Yuliya Yesaoulenko (ROSPHOTO State Museum and Exhibition Centre for Photography, St.-Petersburg). Role of pre-restoration expertise for the selection of methods of document conservation (by the example of Dobuzhinsky family album from ROSPHOTO collection).

Grigory Sheyin (ROSPHOTO State Museum and Exhibition Centre for Photography, St.-Petersburg). Methods of technological expertise of daguerreotypes.

Karina Solovyova (Russian Museum of Ethnography, St.-Petersburg). Attribution of photographic documents in museum collections (by the example of photographic archive of the Russian Museum of Ethnography).

14⁰⁰–15⁰⁰ Lunch break

1500–18⁰⁰ Afternoon session

Yekaterina Tolmachyova (Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) at the Russian Academy of Science, St.-Petersburg). Specifics of the formation of museum holdings (by the example of photographic collection of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography).

Alexandra Kasatkina (Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) at the Russian Academy of Science, St.-Petersburg). Photographs from museum collections: ethnographic source (by the example of Indonesia and Malaysia pictorial collections of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography).

Coffee break

Yelena Agafonova (ROSPHOTO State Museum and Exhibition Centre for Photography, St-Petersburg). Photographic documents in the collection of the Russian State Historical Archive. Expertise and description.

Alina Zakharova (Central State Archive of Cinema, Photographic and Phonographic Documents in St.-Petersburg). Tikhonov photographers' dynasty. Family portrait amidst the epoch.

Closing remarks