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My heart is heavy with sadness and sorrow as I must share with you this really sad announcement:
on January 12, 20015 in Moscow, Russia died don* Mikhail Viktorovich Gorelik (Михаил Викторович Горе́лик) , one of the greatest specialists of pre-modern military history, the history of material culture of the Central Asia nomadic peoples, historical illustrator, academician, archaeologist, educator and prolific writer.
From all the modern military artists and historical reconstructors Mr. Gorelik's work has been the greatest influence and i will sorely miss His wonderful
I see that there is no curriculum vitae Mr Gorelik in English so I sort of took this description of His life from this site and made it into English:
'Mr. Gorelik was born
on October 2, 1946 in the city of Narva. But since 1947 he lived in Moscow.
Since 1960, he became engaged in the archaeological 'circle' at the State
Historical Museum (GIM). In 1961, for the first time he worked in
archaeological expedition. In 1964 he graduated from an art high school, specialty graphic designer. In the same year he entered the evening division of the
Department of Art History and Theory of historical faculty of Moscow
State University and a job in GIM. In 1965 he transferred to the
full-time department, from which he graduated in 1969 with a degree
in "History of Foreign Art", defended thesis on "Artworks
of Behzad." In the same year he entered graduate school at the
Department of Art History and Theory of historical faculty of Moscow
State University.
In
1973 he defended his thesis on "The Mesopotamian miniature
school of the second half of XII - the first half of the XIII
century.", Received the degree of candidate of art. In the same
year he entered the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of
Sciences, where he worked until death. Author of over 100 scientific
papers. The main topics of scientific interest - the arms and armour of the
eastern and southern Eurasia peoples,costume of the Eurasian peoples, the history of
the military affairs of the Eurasian peoples, the art of the people of the Orient.
For
15 seasons, participated in archaeological expeditions (around Moscow,
Crimea, Khakassia, Tajikistan, Lower Dnieper region).
While
still a student began studying graphic reconstructions of weapons and
costume. In 1979, in preparation for the celebration of the 600th
anniversary of the Battle of Kulikovo suggested, developed and
implemented on the basis of the material reconstruction GIM series
sets of weapons of old Rus warriors and the Golden Horde warriors of XIV century for
the Museum of Kulikovo and GIM. In subsequent years, developed and
managed the production of the material reconstruction of weapons,
costumes, equipment for exhibitions at the Museum of History of the
Don Cossacks (Starocherkasskaya stanitza/village), in the Vladimir-Suzdal
Museum-Reserve, the 'Slovo o Igor's Pulk'( The Tale of Igor's Campaign) Museum (Yaroslavl), the Museum on
the Khortisa Island. Khortytsya, Museum of the History of Ukrainian Literature
(Kiev), the Regional Museum of Arkalyk in Kazakhstan, the Regional
Museum in the city of Novgorod-Seversky, the United Museum-Reserve
(Stavropol), the State Museum of the Republic of
Tatarstan, the Royal Arsenal (Royal Armouries) (Leeds, England), and for
private collections.
Since
1964 (the film "Passion According to Andrei") he had worked as
a consultant for more than 20 films. He worked as a costume designer
for the film "Nizami" (1980-81, Azerbaijanfilm) and the
movie "Ermak" (1991 - 1996, Mosfilm). For the last scene
of the craftsmen led M.V.Gorelikom firm "Yarrist" produced
weapons of the main characters. In 1997, the MV Gorelik was awarded
the National Film Award "Nika" in the category "Best
Costume Design" for his film "Ermak". MV Gorelik was an
academician of the Russian Academy of Motion Picture Arts.
Recent
years, being the president of the cultural and historical Fund "PARK
HISTORY" and author of the concept, M.V. Gorelik developed
projects for the recreational and educational tourism centers - Parks Stories
on historical themes, with a maximum immersion visitors authentic,
scientifically credible historical atmosphere.
Died three days ago of heat attack.'
Died three days ago of heat attack.'
below, some of his numerous works - mind you Mr Gorelik was the artist-designer behind the famous Osprey book on the Scythians (Mr McBride painted the plates), and cooperated with David Nicolle, Ph.D. while his articles, eg on the Saka and Samaritan arms and armour, on the Mongols, on the medieval Circassians, on the Kushan arms and armour should be translated into English
М. В. Горелик, Н. М. Фомичев.Рыцарские доспехи XIV века из Азова, Северное Причерноморье и Поволжье во взаимоотношениях Востока и Запада в XII—XVI веках. Ростов-на-Дону, 1989
Горелик М. В. Монголо-татарское оборонительное вооружение второй половины XIV — начала XV в. // Куликовская битва в истории нашей Родины (материалы юбилейной научной конференции). М.: Изд.-во Московского университета, 1983. — С. 244—269
Горелик М. В. Кушанский доспех // Древняя Индия. М.: Наука, 1982, с. 85-89.
Горелик М. В. Скифский мужской костюм в системе костюма ираноязычных народов древней Евразии // Базы данных по истории Евразии в Средние века. — Вып. 3. — М., 1997.
Monographs
- Горелик
М. В. Оружие Древнего Востока. IV
тысячелетие — IV век до н. э. —
М.: Наука-Восточная литература, 1993.
- Горелик
М. В. Оружие Древнего Востока. IV
тысячелетие — IV век до н. э.
Издание второе, дополненное. — СПб:
Атлант, 2003
- Горелик
М. В. Армии монголо-татар X—XIV вв.
Воинское искусство, оружие, снаряжение.
М.: Издательский дом «Техника-молодежи»
и ООО «Восточный горизонт», 2002.
Farewell Maestro, my condolences to your family. Pacem Aeternam
Ps
I attached some of his wonderful reconstructions, I do not own nor have any rights to them, so please respect those.
Ps*
* I used honorific Spanish and Italian title 'don' - just because I respect and cherish Mr. Gorelik's work and research, unfortunately never had the pleasure to meet him in person.
3 comments:
Sad news. I didn't know h was involved in a movie, I will have to track that down.
Indeed, the movie is quite interesting, IMHO, conquest of Siberia etc.
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BA_%28%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BC%29
Mr. Gorelik's reconstruction of the costumes for the film Ermak(Yermak) is great and can be found on the net, I think.
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