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“They Began to Bring Me More and More Tatar Things…”: Alexander Berthier de la Garde Crimean Tatar Collection in His Letters to Nikolay Veselovsky (1907—1913)

The article publishes 8 letters by the Crimean collector and historian Alexander Berthier de la Garde (1842—1920) addressed to the outstanding Russian Orientalist Nikolay Veselovsky (1848—1918). The letters from 1907 to 1913 are preserved now in the Archive of the Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg and in the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art in Moscow. These documents are an important source for the history of the Crimean Tatar part of the collection of A. L. Berthier De la Garde, which was sold in parts in 1919 shortly before the collector's death. References to the origin of objects, their descriptions and Arabic inscriptions on weapons are very important in the letters. The Appendix contains two notes by N. I. Veselovsky about the portrait of the Crimean Khan Shahin-Giray and the sabre from the collection of A. L. Berthier-De la Garde.