2020. Issue 2 (8) Editorial Note 6 MUSEUM STUDIES Blinova A. N., Shlegel E. A. Identity Through the Museum: Transmission of the Cultural Heritage of Russian Germans 7 Bogdan V.-I. T. I. I. Shuvalov, Founder of the Academy of Arts Museum 19 Bolenko K. G. The Journal “Kraeved-Massovik” as a Source on the History of Moscow Region Estate Museums 32 Gorshkova V. V. Temporis Causa: the Development of the Museum Collection of Icons in Yaroslavl: 1922–1930 42 Dmitrenko L. M. Juan Bautista Ambrosetti, the Founder of the Museum of Ethnography in Buenos Aires and the Organizer of Russian-Argentine Collections Exchange with the MAE in 1908–1913 53 Ivanov D. V., Kiy E. A. Archaeological Artifacts from East Turkestan in the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography 66 Klimenko M. S. Historical and Cultural Museum Complex in Razliv: from Mythologization to Museumifi cation 81 Kopaneva N. P. “To Remember for the Future” 91 Kurochkin A. J. A Sword Staff. The “Sword of Shivaji” from the Collections of the MAE RAS 100 Lebedeva A. A. Different Fates: Turmeric and Pandanus in Micronesian Cultures 110 Fedorova M. Y. Thai Textile Motifs. An Attempt of Their Description and Interpretation (the Case of Skirt № 1041–92 from the Collections of the MAE) 118 ARCHIVES, ETHNOGRAPHY AND ORAL HISTORY OF JEWS IN RUSSIA AND ABROAD Valiev M. T., Egorova S. K. Three Wars of Nikolai Novik 125 Golant N. G., Novik A. A. Photographs by S. B. Yudovin Stored in the MAE RAS: Towards the History of the Collection 137 Soboleva Е. S., Sorokina S. P. Jews in South America (According to the Materials of the Second Russian Expedition to South America in 1914–1915) 165 Sherstennikova E. S. Jewish Charity and Educational Institutions as Visitors to the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (According to the Museum’s Excursions Register 1899–1921) 181 ETHNOGRAPHY OF SIBERIA Kapustina Y. L. Food Transfers in the Context of Translocal Migration from Dagestan to Western Siberia 191 Rud’ A. A. Social Relationships’ Changes and the Emergence of New Identities among the Eastern Khanty in the Early Twenty First Century 201 Stepanova O. B. Selkup Man’schhiks: Their Origin, Production and Use 212