At the center of the St. Petersburg Museum of anthropology and Ethnography, in a large circular room, is a permanent exhibition of a representative sample of items collected by Peter the Great at the beginning of the eighteenth century for his original Kunstkamera.1 Among the curiosities on display, there is a large, complete human skeleton, identified only as the remains of "the giant named Bourgeois." In another, smaller glass cabinet in the same room, a visitor can see preserved an abnormally large heart that is identified as belonging to the same Bourgeois. Old catalogs of the collection contain Latin descriptions of other noteworthy parts of Bourgeois's oversized anatomy that are preserved, but no longer displayed at the Museum.2