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This article is written on the occasion of the first publication in Germany in summer 2021 of a unique historical source, i.e., the family archive of Karl Ivanovich Waeber (1841-1910), a prominent Russian diplomat and Orientalist. The significance of this event for researchers can hardly be overestimated. The history of the establishment and development of official Russian-Korean relations at the end of the 19th century, as well as a number of important events in the history of Korea in the precolonial period, are inextricably linked with Waeber's name. However, although historians have been writing about his professional activities for decades, very little personal information about him was known until now, and there were no photographs of him at all. With the publication of the book by S. Bräsel, who is privileged to have found this archive, researchers for the first
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