A giant white sturgeon. On worm?

The National Museum of Tatarstan exhibited stuffed giant sturgeon caught in the waters of the Volga in the early XX century. Monster 4 m 17 cm and a weight of 1 t were caught in the six carts and transported to St. Petersburg especially for the imperial kitchen. Like other noble, sturgeon family, because of its high cost of beluga was considered in pre-revolutionary Russia "royal fish." However, I found out about the unique parameters of the animal, Nicholas II ordered to make of it stuffed to perpetuate it to posterity. After appropriate treatment big fish was exhibited at the Hermitage. In 1902, the beluga was transported by train to Kazan as a personal gift of the sovereign Russian Kazan City Museum (now the National Museum of the Republic of Tajikistan) in honor of its fifth anniversary. Immediately stuffed giant took its deserved place in the exhibition halls and has become one of the trademarks of the zoological collection. In a miracle to watch the fish come from all over Russia. Almost a century effigy was exhibited in a special display case is not, as in the clear. He sat down on the dust, many generations of visitors touched his hands. After the fire of 1987, when the museum was badly damaged, the fish were removed from the exhibition. The fact that the effigy was subjected to the adverse effects of fire extinguishing agents - foam and water. As a result of his skin "village" and cracked in many places. Still later on it was formed a few holes. And now, thanks to the efforts of a specially arrived in Kazan restorer of St. Petersburg, Yuri Starikov, "fish" has found its original, inspiring respect and sometimes horrified look.





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