Zaks Anna
Main achievement
Historian and expert in Soviet and Russian museums, theorist and practitioner of museum studies, employee of the State Historical Museum and the Museum Research Institute, author of approximately 100 publications
About
Under her leadership, in the 1930s and 1940s, exhibitions of the History Museum on the history of Russia in the 18th and 19th centuries were created. She participated in the museum's historical and everyday life expeditions. She studied the history of the North-East Caucasus, including the popular movement led by Shamil and, in particular, the activities of his comrade-in-arms, Hadji Tashaev, who led the Chechen revolt of 1840. In 1936, she led the historical and everyday life expedition of the State History Museum in the North Caucasus (Vedensky district of Chechnya and Buynaksk district of Dagestan). During the expedition, objects related to the life of Imam Shamil were collected, a topographical survey of Shamil's former camp near the village of Dyshne-Vedeno was carried out, and stories of elders who remembered and saw Shamil were recorded. In 1944, she wrote a dissertation, but only managed to defend it in 1946 (according to other sources, in 1955). From 1936, she taught courses in museology at the capital's universities. Her research interests include the development of theory and methodology for creating exhibits for historical museums. Author of works on museology, as well as essays on the history of Moscow museums: the State Historical Museum, the Museum of the Revolution, the Kremlin Armoury, and others. He wrote the memoirs "This Long, Long, Long Life. Recollections". He lived in Moscow, at 58 Bolshaya Dorogomilovskaya Street. He died on October 8, 1996, and was buried in the columbarium of the Novoye Donskoye Cemetery.
