Book
Russian military researchers of Mongolia (second half of the 19th – beginning of the 20th cent.)
Еditor: Golman Mark
Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Москва, 2014, 264 p.
From the middle of the 19th century as far as Russia started its advance to Central Asia, a variety of state and public organizations, primarily the Defense Ministry, the General Staff of the Russian Empire, as well as the Russian Geographic Society began to regularly appoint expeditions for studying Mongolia.
Along with well-known researchers of Mongolia, such as N.M. Przewalski, G.E. Groom-Grjimailo, G.N. Potanin, M.V. Pevtsov, A.M. Pozdneev, P.K. Kozlov who were famous for their travels to this country, there was a group of less known researchers. Those were officers of the General Staff of Russia, who made a significant contribution to multifold study of Mongolia.
By the middle of the 19th century, the huge territory of Mongolia was still little investigated, and therefore the data collected by every military expedition in different regions of the country were of great importance for the development of the science of Mongolia. Members of those expeditions made an invaluable contribution to the development of Mongolian studies in Russia in the pre-revolutionary period; they created an independent direction in this field — military studies of Mongolia.