Email this article B. Baradiyn and his travel diaries on Mongolia and Amdo (from the archives of orientalists at the IOM RAS)
- Authors: Sabrukova S.S.1, Stanulevich N.A.1
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- Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (the Kunstkamera) RAS
- Issue: Vol 22, No 3 (2025)
- Pages: 118-126
- Section: Collections and Archives
- Published: 30.09.2025
- URL: https://journals.eco-vector.com/1811-8062/article/view/688492
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.55512/WMO688492
- ID: 688492
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The article discusses the starting phases of B. Baradiyn’s long expedition to Lavran. His journals that are housed at the Archives of Orientalists at the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences give an account of all stages of the journey. B. Baradiyn was only 27 years old when he was commissioned by the Russian Committee for Middle and East Asian Studies to travel firstly to Urga and then to the Tangut Buddhist monastery of Lavran. The journal “Amdo-Mongolia” gives a description of Dalai Lama XIII’s visit to Mongolia. Being himself a Buddhist and a scholar, B. Baradiyn considers the positive and negative stages of the development of Buddhism in Mongolia, shares his views on the life of the Mongolians and Tibetans. In addition to entering daily notes about his journeys into his travel journals, B. Baradiyn also described all aspects of life of the local population, including history, geography, economics, politics, etc., in which he was deeply interested.
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Svetlana S. Sabrukova
Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (the Kunstkamera) RAS
Email: ssabrukova@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7983-4291
Cand. Sci. (Philology), Senior Researcher, Department of Manuscripts and Documents
Russian Federation, St. PetersburgNadezhda A. Stanulevich
Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (the Kunstkamera) RAS
Author for correspondence.
Email: nstanulevich@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5726-9690
Ph.D., Researcher, Laboratory of Museum Technologies
Russian Federation, St. PetersburgReferences
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