Sheremetev Kunstkamera based on the materials of the Inventory of 1764. Reconstruction experience

The work is devoted to the study of the text of the Inventory of the Kunstkamera of 1764 as an important source on the history of collecting and gathering in the first half of the 18th century. The analysis of the text shows that the Kunstkamera, being a typical collection of rarities for its time, at the same time met the personal tastes and ambitions of the Sheremetevs, who collected here family heirlooms and precious rarities associated with the personality of Field Marshal Boris Petrovich Sheremetev and other representatives of the count's family. No less important was the ethnographic collection, mainly of Chinese art. The factual material contained in the Inventory allows us to imagine the scale of Sheremetev's collecting and identify individual items preserved in the State Museum-Reserve «Ostankino and Kuskovo», trace the history of their existence and clarify the attribution.