Mikhail V. Kryukov. The Origins of the Silk Road: Exhibition “Nomadic Peoples of Eurasia” in Japan and “Smuggling” Export of “Scythian Gold” from the USSR in 1981

An excerpt from a fundamental interview with the legendary Russian sinologist Mikhail Vasilyevich Kryukov tells an almost detective story about tricks hero of conversation had to go in order not disrupt exhibition gold artifacts Scythian production collection State Hermitage, planned Tokyo.