Alfred von Vacano and His Collection

The article is dedicated to the collection of Japanese artifacts owned by the Samara Regional Art Museum and originally collected by Alfred von Vacano (1846–1929), an Austrian entrepreneur, who established a brewery in Samara back in 1881. The article highlights possible reasons which drove Vacano to acquire Eastern treasures, destiny of the collection through the hundred-year period, nuances of translation work, results and prospects of using the acquired experience.