Sapfirova N. Jewelry work of Jozeph Marshak in the artistic and cultural environment of Kiev in the late XIX – early XX centuries.

This dissertation is devoted to the analysis and revealing of artistic features of products assortment against the background of jewelry business development of Kiev and other jewelry centers during the end of the XIX – the beginning of the XX century. The significance of the property of J. Marshak's jewelry company for the artistic culture of Ukraine in outlined period, its role in the history of regional decorative-applied and industrial art is considered. In the available dissertation for the first time, jewelry of the specified firm are processed with application of a complex of special scientific art criticism methods. For example, there were analyzed works of J. Marshak and other well-known Kyiv jewelry companies from modern museum and private collections, the antique market and the Internet space revealed the established art forms and content of Kyiv manufacturers and, accordingly, its stylistic and figurative features. The J. Marshak’s Factory register of identification marks is one of important primary sources for analysis and art expertise, this register contains factory forms with a logo, inventory numbers, stamps of this enterprise, personal marks of masters and commemorative inscriptions on products, hallmarks. Generally, it should be noted that Kyiv cultural environment in the last quarter of the XIX – early XX century was formed taking into account the coexistence in a single society of different ethnic groups. Geographical location of the city at the in-tersection of significant trade and economic routes had a great influence on the for-mation of the local culture of the epoch, access to world technical progress achieve-ments through exhibition activities and professional contacts with the leading art centers of Western Europe and the Russian Empire, as well as the development of architecture and arts with the mastery of new technologies in an era of their rapid development.