The article deals with a collection of Japanese art works of Russian artist V.V. Vereshchagin. It presents the description of the collection. The artifacts are distinguished between the groups and described. The article provides assumptions regarding the causes of the collection sale and its subsequent fortune after the exhibition.

Katsnelson Galina Sergeevna, Candidate of Science (History), Lecture, National Research University “Higher School of Economics", 21/4, Staraya Basmannaya st., Moscow, 101000, Russian Federation, tel.: 8(495) 772-95-90, e-mail: gkatsnelson@hse.ru

Katsnelson G.S. The Fate of Japanese Collection of V. V. Vereshchagin. The Bulletin of Irkutsk State University. Series History, 2019, vol. 30, pp. 78-84. https://doi.org/10.26516/2222-9124.2019.30.78

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