Unknown materials about Usein Abdulrefioglu Bodaninsky (1877–1938)

The materials discovered recently in the Russian State Library in Moscow are unknown to modern researchers of the activities of the founder of BIKAMZ A. Bodaninsky. In particular, information about the large funds that were issued to Bodaninsky by the Bakhchisaray vaqf “Tole” after graduating from the Tatar teacher`s school in Simferopol, which played a major role in his trip and training in Moscow at the Stroganov School of Technical Drawing. New in the article are also materials related to the appeals of U. Bodaninsky in 1916 to Taurida Governor and also “Society for Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments” in Petrograd, related to the intentions of opening an ethnographic museum in Bakhchisaray. Also little known are the frequent trips of U. Bodaninsky in 1915–1916, when he created the “Society of Lovers of Art and Ethnography” from local youths which played an important role, including material, at the official opening the Bakhchisaray museum in1917, because all members of a large society annually contributed a certain fee to the activities of the museum.