Abstract
The article offers an overview of illustrations from the archives of an employee of the Russian Imperial Ministry of Foreign Affairs, traveller and member of the Russian Geographical Society, Reinhold Friedrich Freiherr von der Osten-Sacken (Russ.: Fyodor Romanovich Osten-Saken) (1832–1916), preserved in the Russian Archive of Ancient Acts (RAAA). In total, the article describes content of four archival boxes (a Chinese popular print depicting western steamers in Tianjin; a Japanese album of 1893 with views of Tokyo; six Chinese paintings in the genre of flowers and birds (huaniao), which depict a lotus, lamprocapnos, pomegranate, dragonflies, cicadas and blue magpie; two prints from Chinese steles). Most of the paintings are published for the first time. The translation of the six explanatory texts for Chinese paintings in the genre of flowers and birds belongs to the author of the present article. The text of the article is accompanied by numerous illustrations of the items preserved in the RAAA.
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