About the book: 1980 / This book is about the history of the first Russian museum - Peter's Kunstkamera. Its author, Doctor of Historical Sciences, ethnographer R. F. Its, talks about some Russian scientists and zealots of science who devoted their lives to collecting and studying the museum’s collection; about the heir to the building and the first collections of the Kunstkamera, the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the USSR Academy of Sciences, about the unique collections of the museum.