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The Kunstkammer or '''Kunstkamera''' was the first museum in Russia . It was established by Peter The Great on the Neva River front facing the Winter Palace . The turreted Petrine Baroque building of the Kunstkamera was completed by 1727 . Peter's museum was dedicated to preserving " Natural And Human Curiosities And Rarities ". The tsar's personal collection, originally stored in the Summer Palace , features a large assortment of human and animal Fetus es with anatomical deficiencies, which Peter bought from the Dutch anatomist Frederick Ruysch and pharmacologist Albertus Seba . Some of the most gruesome exhibits are the heads of Catherine I 's lover Willem Mons and his sister Anna Mons , still preserved in alcohol. In 1716 Peter established the mineral cabinet of Kunstkamera, depositing there a collection of 1195 minerals which he had bought from Gotvald, a Danzig ( Gdańsk ) doctor. The collection was enriched with Russian minerals and opened for public view in 1719 . It was a predecessor of the Fersman Mineralogical Museum , now based in Moscow. In the 1830s, the Kunstkamera collections were dispersed to newly established imperial museums, the most important being the Museum Of Anthropology And Ethnography , established in 1879, with a collection approaching 2,000,000 items. The museum is still housed in the Kunstkamera and bears the name of Peter The Great since 1903. SEE ALSO
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