The exhibition “Caves of Thousand Buddhas. Russian expeditions on Silk Road. For 190th Anniversary of Asian Museum” will start from 9 December in the Hermitage State Museum, St. Petersburg.
      
      The visitors will see over 300 items brought by Russian scientists from Central Asia in the course of expeditions at the turn of the 19th century. Among the exhibits, many of which are displayed for the first time there are wall paintings, sculptures, woodcarvings, expedition documents, photos, water-colour and tracing paper copies of ancient paintings, drawings and maps, and an extensive collection of manuscripts.
      
      The enormous collection of works of art, coming from different cultural centres of the Silk Road, was received by the Hermitage State Museum in the 1930s.
      
      Source: mk.ru