The Kunstkamera, Russia's first museum
Peter I opens his cabinet of 'natural rarities' to the public
In 1714 Peter I put his 'natural and human curiosities and rarities' on show in the Summer Palace, creating Russia's first public museum. He later bought the famous Dutch collections of Ruysch and Seba, and in 1727 the museum moved into its towered building on Vasilievsky Island.
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Middle East
- 1722 Fall of Isfahan — 8 years later
Alive at the time
- Louis XIV (aged 76)
- Isaac Newton (aged 71)
- Kangxi Emperor (aged 60)
- Peter the Great (aged 42)
- Johann Sebastian Bach (aged 29)
- Voltaire (aged 20)
- Benjamin Franklin (aged 8)
- Mikhail Lomonosov (aged 3)
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (aged 68)
- Queen Anne (aged 49)