Return to Egypt: Pages of the History of Russian Egyptology

Russia is one of the countries, where Egyptology has been being very popular from 1822, when F. Champollion deciphered hieroglyphs. Unfortunately, for a long time Russian scholars were unable to go in Egypt to study its history and culture. This fact had a big influence on development of the Russian science. But later the situation changed, and from 1995 employees of the Russian Academy of Sciences have been taking part in international archaeological expeditions and conducting unassisted investigations in different regions of Egypt: in Alexandria, Tell Ibrahim Awad, Giza, Memphis, Fayoum and Luxor. As a result sources that allow scholars to revise many pages of Ancient Egyptian history were discovered and put into scientific circulation.

The volume, written in Russian and English, includes overview of history and recent developments of the Russian Egyptology.

The Culture of Egypt and the Mediterranean in Antiquity (in Russian)

Edited by Tatiana A. Sherkova

Moscow: CES RAS, 2009

ISBN  978-5-904488-01-7

 V.I. Avdiev
Lyrics (in Russian)

Compiled by S. Dikareva and A. Dikarev

Moscow: Cabinet of Egyptology of the IOS, 1998. - 154 p.

When Anu Created the Heaven.
Literature of Ancient Mesopotamia (in Russian)

Tales of Ancient Egypt (in Russian)

History and Culture of Ancient and Early Christian Egypt: Materials of the Conference held on the occasion of the centenary of M. Mathieu and M. Korostovtsev

Edited by Galina A. Belova and Tatiana A. Sherkova Мoscow: Aletheia, 2002. 192 p., ill. ISBN № 5-89321-082-4

«Ancient Egyptian Temple at Tell Ibrahim Awad: Excavations and Discoveries in the Nile Delta»

(in Russian and English)

Edited by Galina A. Belova and Tatiana A. Sherkova
Мoscow: Aletheia, 2002. 192 p., ill.
ISBN № 5-89321-082-4

Moscow: Aletheia, 2003. 248 p., ill. — (Vita memoriae) ISBN № 5-89321-100-6

Elena G. Tolmacheva Copts: Egypt without Pharaohs

The book is devoted to the popular description of the world of Egyptian Christians, studying of their culture, art and spiritual life. The author makes an attempt to summarize historical facts, important religious and cultural events, descriptions of the most famous and glorious persons concerning to Christianity at early Christian, Medieval and Modern Egypt.

The first part of the book is devoted to the history of Christianity in Egypt. the author considers the historical and cultural background that influenced on the forming and development of Christian ideology, the expansion of the Christianity all over Egypt. Some attention is paid to the connection between Egyptian, Gnostic, Hellenistic and Christian ideas and mentality. The history of the Copts is recounted in the context of ancient, medieval and modern history of Egypt.

Moscow: Aletheia, 2003. 272 p., ill. — (Vita memoriae) ISBN № 5-89321-099-9

Galina A. Belova & Tatiana A. Sherkova Russians in the country of the pyramids. Travelers, Scientists, Collectors

This book is about the rise of interest in the history of ancient and early Christian Egypt in Russia. It is devoted to the people who were at the sources of the Russian Egyptology. It is due to them that the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin in Moscow and the State Hermitage in Saint-Petersburg had their unique collections of Egyptian objects. This book includes biographies and descriptions of ideas in Egyptology of such researches as V.G. Bok, O.E. Lemm, V.S. Golenischeff, B.A. Turaev and others.

Moscow: Praxys, 2004. 376 p., ill. — (Historia rerum) ISBN № 5-901574-33-8

Tatiana A. Sherkova «Birth of the Eye of Horus: Egypt on Her Way to the Early»

State (in Russian)

Moscow: Praxys, 2004. 376 p., ill. — (Historia rerum)
ISBN № 5-901574-33-8

Moscow: Rudomino, 2005. 224 p., ill. ISBN № 5-7380-0210-5

Egypt of the First Pharaohs. Sed-Festival and Emergence of the Ancient Egyptian State (in Russian)

The book is the first study entirely concentrated on the numerous problems of the Ancient Egyptian royal festival heb-sed. This festival was an essential part of the royal ideology during almost 3000 years of pharaonic history. However, despite the fact that it was celebrated by many rulers we do not have a complete version of the heb-sed ritual. Detached elements of the festival are scattered throughout various types of sources which cover a large period of time from the emergence of the state in the Nile valley up to Ptolemaic rule.

The heb-sed has become a kind of «communis opinio» in contemporary Egyptology being seen as a festival of the renewal of kingly potency and the reaffirmation of the divine descent of the king and thus the confirmation of his claim to the throne. It has also been suggested that the sed festival was a ceremony which averted the ritual killing of the king before he began to grow old and lose his physical and supernatural energies.