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Peter the Great’s scientific instruments in the collections of Kunstkamera [PDF]

Vestnik of Saint Petersburg State University of Culture, 2023
The history of modern collections of MAE (Kunstkamera) RAS roots to Peter the Great’s private gatherings. However, the ascertainment of correlation of modern museum objects with the ones which were in the museum in the first quarter of the 18th century demands complicated research – work with the objects, archival documents and historiographical ...
Lupanova Yevgenia Mihaylovna, Yastrebinskiy Grigiriy Borisovich   +1 more
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Kostenki 4 ground stone tools in the collection of Kunstkamera museum (MAE RAS) [PDF]

Camera Praehistorica, 2023
Tools made of soft rock materials at the Upper Paleolithic sites are usually represented by pebbles that were used for various domestic purposes without intentional modification of their shape. In the Neolithic period, the anisotropic stone raw materials were processed for manufacturing tools (such as axes, adzes, chisels, etc.) by abrasion — grinding,
Maria Zheltova, Sergey Lisitsyn
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About the object collection of the Kunstkamera from Upper Balkaria of Nikolai Adolfovich Bush

Kavkazologiya, 2023
Valuable components of the Kunstkamera’s museum collection are two sets donated by Academician Nikolai A. Bush (1869–1941). They are organically connected with the personal biography of this famous St. Petersburg and Leningrad scientist – botanist and florist, geographer and glaciologist, researcher of the glaciers of the Western and Central Caucasus ...
Meskhidze Julietta
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Archival data on Historical locations of the Asiatic Museum in the Kunstkamera building

Orientalistica, 2022
The Asiatic Museum was the first specialized research centre for oriental studies in Imperial Russia. The successors of the Asiatic Museum are nowadays the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow) and the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg). The Asiatic Museum collection
Д. В. Иванов
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Technological study of the “La Paya” ceramic collection from Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera, Russia) [PDF]

Arqueologia, 2023
The Calchaquí Valley archaeological complex presents numerous Santamariana-Calchaquí ceramics of varied production techniques, shapes, and painted decoration.
L. M. Dmitrenko
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LAPPONIAN (SAMI) COLLECTIONS IN 18th CENTURY KUNSTKAMERA OF THE IMPERIAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

Yearbook of Finno-Ugric Studies, 2022
The work is aimed to specify composition and significance of the collections on the traditional Sami culture in the first Russian state public museum - the Kunstkamera of the Imperial Academy of Sciences (1714-1836) in St. Petersburg. A European cabinet of curiosities was part of a scientific system for disseminating reliable knowledge about the ...
Margarita Fedorovna Khartanovich, Maria Valeryevna Khartanovich   +1 more
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French Scientific Instruments at M. V. Lomonosov’s Museum MAE (Kunstkamera) RAS [PDF]

Vestnik of Saint Petersburg State University of Culture
The collection of scientific instruments stored at M. V. Lomonosov’s museum at MAE (Kunstkamera) RAS is a unique assemble of material historical sources presenting the history of world sciences at the period of encyclopedism. The article contains the detailed characteristics of seven scientific instruments (sundials, clock, telescope, electrostatic ...
Yevgenia M. Lupanova, St. Petersburg
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Kunstkamera 2020–2021. Back to Offline

Kunstkamera, 2021
Tatiana Solovyeva, Daria Patrina
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The ihai mortuary tablets in the MAE (Kunstkamera) RAS collection: Ethno-cultural environment and history of acquisition

Japanese Studies in Russia
The Japanese collection of the MAE RAS contains many objects that are interesting not only for their artistic features or ethnographic value, but also for the amazing history of acquisition, very often connected with remarkable people. This article focuses on three ihai 位牌 mortuary tablets in the MAE collection.
A. V. Sinitsyn
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Sheremetev Kunstkamera based on the materials of the Inventory of 1764. Reconstruction experience

Podlinnik
The work is devoted to the study of the text of the Inventory of the Kunstkamera of 1764 as an important source on the history of collecting and gathering in the first half of the 18th century. The analysis of the text shows that the Kunstkamera, being a typical collection of rarities for its time, at the same time met the personal tastes and ambitions
Irina K. Efremova
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