Images of the Russian Literary Ethnography of Manchuria in the First Half of the 20-th Century

The images of Russian literary ethnography of Manchuria in the first half of the 20-th century reflect the reception of foreign cultures by ethnographic writers(N.A. Baykov, P.V. Shkurkin, V. Mart, M.V. Shcherbakov, B.M. Yulsky), their self-reception, as well as perception of unique frontier conditions, when a meeting of the most diverse peoples and cultures took place in difficult political, sociocultural, and ethnocultural circumstances. The main feature of Russian literary ethnography of Manchuria in the first half of the 20-th century is the erosion of ethnic oppositions when creating mental images of foreign culture. This circumstance is due to the results of deep ethnographic and anthropological studies of Russian scholars in these territories, as well as the experience of close everyday inter-ethnic contacts.