Gavriil Wassiljewitsch Ksenofontow
Gavriil Vasilievich Ksenofontow ( Russian Гавриил Васильевич Ксенофонтов ., Scientific transliteration Gavriil Vasil'evič Ksenofontov ; * 4. January 1888 in Malschegar today Sacha (Yakutia), Russia ; † 28. August 1938 in Kommunarka in Moscow ) was a Russian- Yakut ethnographer . He has made a name for himself as a collector of messages about the shamans of various East Siberian peoples. His Shaman Legends (Irkutsk, 1928) were published by the Yakut Section of the East Siberian Department of the Russian Geographical Society .
On April 22, 1938, Ksenofontov was arrested as part of the Stalin Great Terror , sentenced to death on August 28, 1938 for alleged espionage and shot on the same day in Kommunarka near Moscow. On August 22, 1957, Ksenofontov was rehabilitated .
Works (selection)
- Les chamanes de Sibérie et leur tradition orale: suivi de Chamanisme et christianisme. Paris: Michel, 1998 (Spiritualités vivantes); ISBN 2-226-10681-2
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.gazetayakutia.ru/print.aspx?id=17739 ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Article in Gazeta Jakutia
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| SURNAME | Ksenofontow, Gavriil Wassiljewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ксенофонтов, Гавриил Васильевич (Cyrillic); Ksenofontov, Gavriil Vasilʹevič (scientific transliteration) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian ethnographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 4, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Malschegar , Yakutia |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 28, 1938 |
| Place of death | Kommunarka near Moscow |