Vasily Radlov
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Vasily Vasilievich Radlov, born Friedrich Wilhelm Radloff was a German and Russian linguist, ethnographer, and archaeologist, often considered to be the founder of Turkology, the scientific study of T
Radlov in 1917
Kunstkamera
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The Kunstkamera is a Russian public museum of science located on the Universitetskaya Embankment in Saint Petersburg, facing the Winter Palace. The Kunstkamera is formally organized as the Russian Aca
Vasily Radlov
…in St. Petersburg, where he directed the Asiatic Museum (between 1885 and 1890) and then (from 1894) the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography in the Kunstkamera building. From 1903, he was in charge of the Russian Committee for the Study of Central and East Asia. He also helped establish the Russian Museum of…
View of the Kunstkamera across the River Neva
Kunstkamera in 1740