“Such a Geographer – Asian Expert as You Cannot be Replaced”: Letters of Yu.M. Shokalsky to G.E. Grumm-Grzhimailo (in Commemoration of the 160th Anniversary of Grigory E. Grumm-Grzhimailo)
https://doi.org/10.31857/S0869607120020093
Abstract
The article briefly highlights the main life events of Grigory Efimovich Grumm-Grzhimailo (1860–1936) – a traveler, naturalist, entomologist, historian, and honorary member of the Russian Geographical Society. His expeditions covered the Pamir, the Eastern Tian Shan, Nanshan, Western Mongolia, and the Uryankhai area (Tuva). It is noted that his various activities made an extensive contribution to the study of the nature and history of the peoples of Central Asia. The whole life of Grumm-Grzhimailo was associated with the Russian Geographical Society, of which he was the vice-chairman in the 1920s. During that time, he developed a close friendship with Yu.M. Shokalsky, the chairman of the Society, who greatly appreciated his contribution to the knowledge of the Asian continent. The published here letters of Shokalsky to Grumm-Grzhimailo reflect the nature of their relationship, complement the biographical outlines of Grumm-Grzhimailo and Shokalsky with new facts, and appear to be a valuable source of the history of the Russian Geographical Society.
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T. I. Yusupova
Institute for the History of Science and Technology, St.-Petersburg Branch, RAS
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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Yusupova T.I. “Such a Geographer – Asian Expert as You Cannot be Replaced”: Letters of Yu.M. Shokalsky to G.E. Grumm-Grzhimailo (in Commemoration of the 160th Anniversary of Grigory E. Grumm-Grzhimailo). Proceedings of the Russian Geographical Society. 2020;152(2):75-86. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31857/S0869607120020093
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