The Rasputin’s museum was opened in Pokrovskoye (Tyumen region) where Grigoriy Rasputin was born. It is his reconstructed home, that was destroyed in Soviet times because the government was afraid of tourists who could be interested in this . So now, everybody is welcome.
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Tags: Grigori Rasputin, museums, Places in Russia, Russian Culture, Russian history
There is Dead sea in Israel, Tuz lake (Tuz Gölü) in Turkey. And Russia has its own dead sea in Khakasia and it is also called Tuz (Khakasian language must be related to Turkic)
Kunstkamera (german - Kunstkammer - "room of art") - the first Russian museum that was open in 1714 in Saint-Petersburg. The first items were bought in other countries according to the order of Peter I.
The exposition started with the collection of "ugly creatures" (genetic ugliness of people and animals) and the collection of anatomic products bought in the Netherlands. At first there also were zoological collections that were turned to a zoological museum in 1832.
Right now the full name of the Kunstkamera is the Museum of anthropology and ethnography named after Peter the Great (Kunstkamera) of Russian Science Academy. Besides the Peter's collections there are also living supplies, clothes, weapon, craft-work of the world nations collected in 250 years in expeditions organized by the Science Academy.
The Kuntskamera's expositions are
Floor 0 - Stores, cafes, cloakroom
Floor 1 - Northern America
Exhibition "World of one item"
Exhibition "Japan"
Exhibition "Africa"
Floor 2 - Mideast
Exhibition "China"
Exhibition "Indo-China"
Exhibition "India. Indonesia"
"First natural and scientific collections"
Floor 3 "M.V.Lomonosov and the Science Academy of XVIII"
Floor 4 "First astronomic observatory of the Science Academy"
Floor 5 "Big Gottorpskiy globe"
And here are some photos of the items
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