Research Catalog

Title

The quest for forbidden lands : Nikolai Przhevalskii and his followers on Inner Asian tracks / by Alexandre Andreyev, Mikhail Baskhanov, Tatiana Yusupova.

Author

Andreev, A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich),

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Baskhanov, M. K. (Mikhail Kazbekovich),
• Yusupova, Tatiana,

Description

xviii, 392 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Eurasian studies library : history, societies & cultures in Eurasia ; volume 10

Uniform Title

Eurasian studies library ; v. 10.

Subjects

• Explorers
• Central Asia
• Explorers > Asia, Central > Biography
• Asia, Central > Discovery and exploration > Russian
• Biographies
• Imperatorskoe russkoe geograficheskoe obshchestvo
• Przhevalʹskiĭ, Nikolaĭ Mikhaĭlovich, 1839-1888
• Discovery and exploration, Russian
• Explorers > Russia > Biography
• Russia

Genre/Form

Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Into Inner Asia, in Search for the Unknown: The Russian Explorations and Explorers of the Region / Alexander I. Andreyev -- A Glimpse of History: Early Travelers in the 'Forbidden Lands' (From the 13th to the Mid-19th Century) -- The Imperial Russian Geographical Society, P.P. Semenov, and the Onset of Exploration of Inner Asia -- The IRGO -- War Ministry Cooperation. The 'Epic Era' of Przhevalskii's Expeditions -- Exploration and the Great Game -- Ethnographic Research and the 'Imperial Visions' -- The Final Stage of Explorations: The Academy of Sciences Taking the Lead -- Some Concluding Remarks -- Nikolai Mikhailovich Przhevalskii (1839-1888) / Alexander I. Andreyev -- Mikhail Vasil'ievich Pevtsov (1843-1902) / Mikhail K. Baskhanov -- Vsevolod Ivanovich Roborovskii (1856-1910) / Alexander I. Andreyev -- Pyotr Kuzmich Kozlov (1863-1935) / Alexander I. Andreyev, Tatiana I. Yusupova -- Bronislav Liudvigovich Grombchevskii (1855-1926) / Mikhail K. Baskhanov -- Grigorii Efimovich Grumm-Grzhimailo (1860-1936) / Tatiana I. Yusupova

ISBN

• 9789004303980
• 9004303987
• 9789004376267 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2018026232

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library