Afghan scarf
Accessories
Inventory number
2022.9.28.6.AC.SC.C1913.XXDescription
Long afghan scarf in a mix of silk and wool, predominantly red and purple. Large red colored areas are interspersed with purple bands or lines and vice versa. Non-woven threads adorn the ends of this scarf, which come to end their course in white bands which are perpendicular to them.Ancient property of a Russian noble gentleman Vladimir TRIPOLSKY (1883 - 1942), and was brought by him from his trip to Afghanistan where he was sent to buy carpets while working at the Murgab Sovereign Estate of the Specific Department.
Vladimir Rodionovich TRIPOLSKY was born on January 1, 1883 into a noble family of Rodion Pavlovich and Maria Feliksovna TRIPOLSKY in the county town of Zenkov, Poltava province. Having graduated, like all the men of his large family, from the Petrovsky Poltava Cadet Corps, he did not follow the military career, but entered the Tomsk Technological Institute.
In Tomsk, on October 10, 1910, Vladimir TRIPOLSKY married the daughter of a private attorney of the District Court, Anna Vassilievna MOLOTKOVSKAYA, whose family came from the city of Mirgorod, Poltava province. From 1907 to 1910, while studying at the institute, Vladimir also worked in the Ministry of Railways as a foreman in the research and construction of railways. In 1912 he graduated from the Tomsk Technological Institute with a degree in civil engineering.
From 1913 to 1920, he worked at the Murgab Sovereign Estate of the Specific Department (Bayram Ali) as an assistant manager, civil engineer and director of factories. And also in Ashgabat and Samarkand on research, construction and operation of irrigation systems and cotton ginning plants. In the early 1920s, the family moved to Baku, and from 1921 to 1935 Vladimir Rodionovich worked on the construction and operation of factories, railways and irrigation networks in Central Asia and the Caucasus.
He was repressed in 1935, and died in a Stalinist concentration camp in Kazakhstan on September 18, 1942. He was rehabilitated posthumously on December 23, 1959.
Materials
SilkWool
Origin
circa 1913 AfghanistanDimensions
Length : 71.1 cmHeight : 322 cm
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