Preconditions of origin at the beginning of the ХХ century museums of military units and ukrainian componentin the regimental museums of the russian empire army

Abstract

On the basis of the study, the author describes the history of the birth and development of the main forms of activity of the officer assemblies of the Russian Army. The article deals with the peculiarities of the organization of the work of military clubs (assemblies) and the creation of officers' meetings of the Russian Army. When working on the article the author used new sources and literature on the topic of this study, a significant part of which is a message on the pages of the periodical press.

The development of military museumry is shown on the example of the study of the preconditions for the formation, functioning and contribution of the military affairs museums to the military units of the so-called «military» units. the regimental museums of the Russian Empire.

The activity of the museums of separate regiments of Ukrainian descent was analyzed. The author considers one of the military traditions of the army of the Russian Empire on an example of the existence of military units of regimental museums, which originally had officers' libraries, and eventually became an integral part of each military unit. It was established that the analysis of historiographic material from the military museum of the regiments of the Russian Empire testifies to the predominant interest of Russian researchers in the issues of military history and the theory of military-museum affairs.

A separate annex to the article is the handbook of the military units of the Russian Empire, which had military museums and analyzed of the existence of museums in military units of the Russian Empire, who were of Ukrainian descent. The study found that in the army of the Russian Empire was 24 percent of the total number of so-called. regimental museums in military units that were or were formed on the territory of Ukraine, that is Ukrainian origin.