@article{Rezvan_2018, title={The most European place in St. Petersburg: the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography between the Past and the Future}, volume={6}, url={https://rivisteclueb.it/index.php/etnoantropologia/article/view/274}, abstractNote={<p>The article presents a short survey of the history of Peter the<br />Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of the<br />Russian Academy of Sciences (MAE RAS). Today MAE RAS is one of the<br />largest and oldest ethnographic museums in the world. The richest scientific<br />collections of MAE RAS (today more than 1.2 million units of storage)<br />consistently evolved throughout its 300-year history primarily as a result of<br />intensive expeditionary and research activities of the Academy of Sciences.<br />The history of Russia in the last three hundred years is also the history of the<br />Museum. It shared with the country the breakthrough of the Peter the Great<br />and Catherine epochs, the great achievements for Russian science and culture<br />of the 19th century, the achievements of the “great era” of Soviet academic<br />science. The museum remembers the years of Great terror, the horrors of the<br />Siege of Leningrad, and the difficult times after the collapse of the USSR. The<br />priority of science in the system of state values, the study and preservation of<br />national cultures and interethnic dialogue are the key aspects of the Museum’s<br />activities. They always coincided and coincide today with the most important<br />tasks of Russian statehood.</p>}, number={1}, journal={EtnoAntropologia}, author={Rezvan, Efim}, year={2018}, month={set.}, pages={37–46} }