Exhibition “The Researcher’s Study: Russia’s Expansion to the East in the 17th–19th Centuries”

About exhibition

The main figure of this exhibition is a brave traveler who ventured into the vast unknown to explore it and then, in the quiet of his study, compiled the accumulated knowledge into a book or a government document. How the country grew by acquiring new lands, how the annexed territories were studied and how theoretical knowledge was consolidated for their subsequent settlement — all this can be learned by interactively examining the exhibition items. A visitor to the researcher’s study can: read a scroll reconstructing the appearance of the servicemen of Eastern Siberia in the 17th century; examine the service record of Governor Muravyov-Amursky; view a copy of Alexander II’s decree authorizing N. N. Muravyov to add the suffix “Amursky” to his surname; study other documents, copies of maps, and items from various museum collections; and see characteristic attributes of the study. Most items are freely accessible and available for independent study. More details on the website.