PARTICIPATION OF POLISH ARTISTS IN SIBERIAN EXHIBITIONS OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE XIX - EARLY XX CENTURIES
The article examines the history of holding of art exhibitions of Polish masters by public organizations of Baikal Siberia in the second half of the 19th - early 20th centuries. Historical sources from the funds of the State Archives of the Irkutsk Region are analyzed: constituent and accompanying documents of public organizations, plans and estimates, catalogs of exhibitions, posters, invitations, memoirs and correspondence of artists, sources of periodicals, etc. The involvement of a wide range of documents makes it possible to study from different sides the process of organizing artistic events.