Mikhail V. Kryukov. The Origins of the Silk Road: Exhibition “Nomadic Peoples of Eurasia” in Japan and “Smuggling” Export of “Scythian Gold” from the USSR in 1981

Abstract

An excerpt from a fundamental interview with the legendary Russian sinologist Mikhail Vasilyevich Kryukov tells an almost detective story about the tricks the hero of the conversation had to go to in order not to disrupt the exhibition of gold artifacts of Scythian production from the collection of the State Hermitage, planned in Tokyo.