The Quest for Forbidden Lands

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-30398-0
Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 392 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 751 g

Reihe: Eurasian Studies Library

The Quest for Forbidden Lands: Nikolai Przhevalskii and his Followers on Inner Asian Tracks is a collection of biographical essays of outstanding Russian explorers of Inner Asia of the late nineteenth – early twentieth century, Nikolai Przhevalskii, Vsevolod Roborovskii, Mikhail Pevtsov, Petr Kozlov, Grigorii Grumm-Grzhimailo and Bronislav Grombchevskii, almost all senior army officers. Their expeditions were organized by the Imperial Russian Geographical Society with some assistance from the military department with a view of exploring and mapping the vast uncharted territories of Inner Asia, being the Western periphery of the Manchu-Chinese Empire. The journeys of these pioneers were a great success and gained world renown for their many discoveries and the valuable collections they brought from the region.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Andreyev, Alexandre I.

Baskhanov, Mikhail

Yusupova, Tatyana

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Preface

Andreyev, M. Baskhanov, T. Yusupova

Acknowledgements

Alexander Andreyev, Tatiana Yusupova

List of Illustrations

A Note on Transliteration, Terminology and Dates

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Into Inner Asia, in Search for the Unknown: The Russian Explorations and Explorers of the Region

Alexander I. Andreyev

1 A Glimpse of History: Early Travelers in the ‘Forbidden Lands’ (From the 13th to the Mid-19th Century)

2 The Imperial Russian Geographical Society, P.P. Semenov, and the Onset of Exploration of Inner Asia

3 The IRGO – War Ministry Cooperation. The ‘Epic Era’ of Przhevalskii’s Expeditions

4 Exploration and the Great Game

5 Ethnographic Research and the ‘Imperial Visions’

6 The Final Stage of Explorations: The Academy of Sciences Taking the Lead

7 Some Concluding Remarks

1 Nikolai Mikhailovich Przhevalskii (1839–1888)

Alexander I. Andreyev

2 Mikhail Vasil’ievich Pevtsov (1843–1902)

Mikhail K. Baskhanov

3 Vsevolod Ivanovich Roborovskii (1856–1910)

Alexander I. Andreyev

4 Pyotr Kuzmich Kozlov (1863–1935)

Alexander I. Andreyev, Tatiana I. Yusupova

5 Bronislav Liudvigovich Grombchevskii (1855–1926)

Mikhail K. Baskhanov

6 Grigorii Efimovich Grumm-Grzhimailo (1860–1936)

Tatiana I. Yusupova

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Alexandre Andreyev, Doctor of History, is senior research fellow at the Institute for the History of Science & Technology, St Petersburg branch. He has published monographs and many articles in Russian and English on Russo-Tibetan relations, Buddhism in Russia and exploration of Inner Asia by Russian travelers, including Soviet Russia and Tibet: The Debacle of Secret Diplomacy, 1918-1930s (Brill, 2003), Tibet in the Earliest Photographs by Russian Travelers, 1900-1901 (Delhi, Studio Orientalia, 2013), and Russian Expeditions to Inner Asia: Their Organization, Observations and Collections, 1870-1920s (with T. Gnatiuk and M. Kozhevnikova) (St.Petersburg, Nestor-Istoriia, 2013).

Mikhail Baskhanov, Ph.D. (1990) is an independent researcher. He has published monographs, translations and many articles on China, Russian military history and a History of Russian Oriental Studies, including General Lavr Kornilov (London, Skiff Press, 2000), and Russian Military Orientologists before 1917. Biographical-Bibliographical Dictionary (Moscow, Vostochnaia Literatura, 2005).

Tatiana Yusupova, Doctor of History, is a senior research fellow at the Institute for the History of Science & Technology, St Petersburg branch. She has published two monographs and many articles on Soviet-Mongolian scientific cooperation and exploration of Inner Asia by P. Kozlov including The Mongolian Committee of the Academy of Sciences: The History of its Creation and Activities, 1925-1953 (St. Petersburg, Nestor-Istoriia, 2006), Travelling as a Lifestyle: The Central Asian Explorer P. Kozlov (St. Petersburg, Nestor-Istoriia, 2016), and (with A. Andreyev) the travel diaries of P. Kozlov’s two expeditions of 1923-1926 (St. Petersburg, Nauka, 2003) and 1907-1909 (St. Petersburg, Nestor-Istoriia, 2016).