The manual includes information from the history of embalming, anatomy, as well as the basic types and principles of preservation and embalming of corpses using modern chemicals for various conditions of corpses. Recommendations are given for facial restoration and restoration of body parts of a deceased person in a wide variety of conditions of violent and non-violent death. Methods for preparing anatomical (museum) preparations are described. The appendix contains the entire regulatory framework for embalming and restoration of corpses. [Appendices that were available in the original paper are missing (they included a number of legal documents that have largely lost force, the autopsy report of V.I. Lenin and brief information about funeral rites in Orthodoxy, Islam, Buddhism and Judaism.)]