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Until 1906, the museum included a collection of ethnographic items. By this year however, the collection was becoming so vast that it had to be separated and displayed in a separate institution, which became the
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established through a decree by the Knyaz, and the assembly of its collections began the next year. Initially it was also known as a "Museum-temple of the
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the joint institution launched a series of archaeological expeditions inside
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