German museums have the most interesting archaeological and ethnographic monuments of Uzbek origin. In this volume, the readers can acquaint themselves with the ceramics of ancient Samarkand in the collection of the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin, knives and daggers from the Dresden Armory, and unique manuscripts in the Chagatai language related to the history and culture of Uzbekistan from the National Library of Germany, including rarest manuscripts by Alisher Navoi, Ulugbek's star tables and many other. There are also exhibits from the Linden Museum in Dresden, including clothes, examples of book art, ceramics and metal items. The formation of this collection is associated with the name of the famous mountaineer and scholar, researcher Willy Rickmer Rickmers, whose life was full of intriguing events.