First collections Peter the Great's trips to Europe Acquisition of collections in Europe: Frederik Ruysch, Albert Seba, Joseph-Guichard Duverney The Gottorp (Great Academic) globe Siberian expedition of Daniel Gottlieb Messerschmidt The Academic detachment of the second Kamchatka expedition (1733-1743) 1747 fire in the Kunstkamera Fr.-L. Jeallatscbitsch trip to China with a mission of the Academy of Sciences (1753-1756) Siberian collections Academy of Sciences' expeditions for geographical and economic exploration of Russia (1768-1774) Research in the Pacific James Cook's collections Early Japanese collections Russian circumnavigations of the world and collections of the Kunstkamera