Kotin I., Merenkova O., Soboleva E. Nikolaevsky Hall: Peoples of South Asia (Collections and Collectors)

Igor Kotin
Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of the RAS
Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
ORCID: 0000-0001-5751-7703
E-mail: igorkotin@mail.ru
 

Olga Merenkova
Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of the RAS
Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
ORCID: 0000-0002-2771-9862
E-mail: onyx@kunstkamera.ru

Elena Soboleva
Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of the RAS
Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
ORCID: 0000-0001-6137-0476
E-mail: soboleva@kunstkamera.ru

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KEYWORDS: peoples of South Asia, ethnography, exhibition, collectors, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences

FOR CITATION: Kotin I., Merenkova O., Soboleva E. Nikolaevsky Hall: Peoples of South Asia (Collections and Collectors). Kunstkamera. 2025. 2 (28): 6–21. (In Russian). DOI: 10.31250/2618-8619-2025-2(28)-6-21

DOI 10.31250/2618-8619-2025-2(28)-6-21
UDC 394+395

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