Fedor
Ivanovich Schmidt

Vizantolo with a world name, academician, Museum worker, the author of the original museological publications: "Historical, ethnographic, and art museums" (1919), "museums : Issues of exposure" (1929). Education Schmidt received the historical-philological faculty of St. Petersburg University, after which long time was engaged in studying the monuments of Byzantine art. After the revolution, living in Kharkov, actively involved in the preservation of monuments of art and antiquities and reorganization of the Museum business in Ukraine. One of his many promotions was the creation of the children's creativity Museum. The Kharkov period of his life, Schmitt ended with his arrest. He was conditionally sentenced to three years of public-forced labor for participation in the signing of the Kharkiv intelligentsia Appeals to the scientists of the West. Since 1921 Schmidt lives in Kiev where in addition to intensive teaching and research work (he is the rector of the Kiev Archaeological Institute, the Director of the Kiev Institute of art), involved in the rescue of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, which was originally supposed to host SOCIAL security authorities. Thanks to the efforts of Schmidt and his associates Laurus receives the status of "Museum town", here is the Central Museum of the cults (Schmidt, Executive Director and Director of the Sophia Cathedral). At the same time he continues to work on the idea of a children's Museum and organised by the all-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences study on the study of children's creativity. In 1924, Schmitt is forced to leave Kiev in connection with the growth of nationalist sentiment (Schmidt origin was German). His fate is linked mainly to Leningrad, where he headed the State Institute of art history (GIII). One of the objectives of the Institute, according to the concept Schmitt, was the study of museology and pedagogy, it would seem, re-did the actual idea of the Museum of children's art. But in an atmosphere of continuous and severe struggle with idealism, anti-Marxist views, with the class-hostile elements, in which proceeded activities of the Institute such innovations were unreal. After the reorganization of GIII in 1930 Schmitt actually block access to the active research and teaching, which required his active and highly endowed nature. In 1933 he was arrested on charges of "German espionage". Schmidt is serving the link in the Akmolinsk, and then, in 1935, he lived in Tashkent, where, in particular, works in the national art Museum of the Uzbek SSR. There he held an exhibition of children's drawings. In August 1937 F. I. Schmitt once again arrested and soon thereafter sentenced to death.