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Russian treasures in Kansas aren't new. Russian settlements have contributed to the economic stability of the Sunflower State for nearly 150 years. A photo exhibit at the Kansas Museum of History in Topeka highlights Russian immigrant history in Kansas.
Brenden Sager Kansan staff writer
Brebcca Martin, assistant museum director, said that the state history museum saw the need to have an exhibit on Russian settlers to coincide with the "Treasures of the Czars" exhibit, which also is in Topeka. Russians have played a large role in the history of Kansas, she said. The exhibits opened on the same date—Aug. 2.
"We had to do something fairly quickly," Martin said.
A collection of pictures shows how these settlers lived in central Kansas — their homes, their dress and their culture. Martin said they came from the Volga River area and from the Ukraine.
She said the Russian settlers were originally from Germany. During an expansion under the rule of Catherine the Great, German Mennonites and Catholics were invited to settle Russian land with exemptions from taxes and military service.
William Keel, professor of German, said under Catherine's rule, the settlers were given advantages that natives of the country didn't have.
The new German settlers in Russia, Keel said, slowly began to lose their exemptions in the 1850s. In those same years, they decided to come to America for a new start and to take advantage of new opportunities in Kansas.
Martin said railroad companies such as the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway
Many of the new settlers were used to prairie-type agricultural conditions from the steppes in Russia. However, it took a generation for the Russian immigrants to shed their thick, dark wool clothing that was both necessary and popu-
offered the immigrants transportation, free land to build schools and churches. Once they arrived, they were uniquely successful among Kansas' settlers, she said.
"Some of them (the Russians) became quite prosperous."
William Koel
Professor of German
lar in Russia but hot and cumbersome in Kansas.
"Some of them became quite prosperous," Keel said. After many of the Russians became established in their farm fields, the discovery of oil made them even more successful.
Today Mennonite settlements still are successful communities in counties such as Marion, McPherson and Harvey. Catholic settlements can be found in Ellis, Russell and Rush counties.
The exhibit will be at the museum until Dec. 3 and is open from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday and from 12:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Sundays. The museum phone number is (913) 272-8681.
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Exhibit illustrates Russia's past and present
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By Craig Lang
Kansan staff writer
This year, Kansans have the rare opportunity to visit the Russia that existed before the rise of communism.
"Treasures of the Czars," an exhibit now on display until Dec. 31 at the Kansas International Museum in Topeka, features items from the 300-year reign of the Romanov dynasty, which ended in the 1917 Russian Revolution. Topeka and the exhibition's previous site, St. Petersburg, Fla., are the only two cities outside of the former Soviet Union to show the exhibit.
"This exhibit is the chance to see how they are trying to find a new identity."
Maria Carlson Director of the Center for Russian and East European studies
"This is a once in a lifetime opportunity," said Nancy Sherrer, who handles media relations for the exhibition. "When this exhibit ends, it will go back to the Moscow Kremlin Museum, and many of these items will be locked in a vault."
The 20,000-square-foot exhibit includes toys used by the Romanov children, religious artifacts and various gifts given to the czars and their families. One such gift is the famous centennial Easter Egg made by the House of Fabergé.
Maria Carison
By looking at these pieces of history, Kansans also are getting the chance to see how things are changing in the former Soviet Union. Wayne Chinander, a doctoral candidate in the Russian and East European history department, said the display outside Russian borders was an example of how things are different.
"This show would not have happened under the Communist regime,"
Chinander said.
He said the former government of the Soviet Union would prefer the evidence of a non-communist rule be forgotten. Now, by allowing the exhibit to be displayed on American soil, the new Russian government has proven that its unaffraid of displaying their non-communist past and that they are looking for monetary support in order to preserve their history, he said.
Maria Carlson, director of the University of Kansas Center for Russian and East European studies, said.
"This exhibit is the chance to see how they are trying to find a new identity."
Carlson said the University had planned other activities to supplement the "Treasures of the Czars" exhibit and further educate students on the Romanov dynasty.
The center for Russian and East European studies held a workshop via satellite last week for 350 teachers across Kansas.
Every Thursday in September, a guest speaker will lecture on some aspect of the Romanov dynasty. Student Union Activities also will show a different Russian film every Tuesday in September, including "Peter the Great" and "War and Peace."
The exhibit, which opened Aug. 2, had more than 10,000 visitors in the first week alone. Ticket costs are $15 for adults, $13.50 for senior citizens and $6 for children ages 5 to 16. The Kansas International Museum is located at 4th and Quincy streets in Topeka.
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