Mikhail Vasilyevich Pevtsov

Mikhail Vasilyevich Pewzow ( Russian Михаил Васильевич Певцов ; born May 21 ^{. Jul} / 2. June  1843 ^greg. In the province of Novgorod ; † February 25 ^jul. / 10. March  1902 ^greg. In St. Petersburg ) was a Russian explorer .

Life

Pewzow was orphaned early and was raised by a poor relative. He attended the First St. Petersburg Gymnasium (now School No. 321) as a guest student and then the Junk School Voronezh . This was followed by studies at the Nikolai Academy of the General Staff with a geodesy course. He then went to work in Semipalatinsk , where he did ethnographic work and learned Kazakh , Arabic and Chinese .

In 1872 Pewzow became a lecturer at the Siberian Cadet Corps in Omsk and assistant to the senior adjutant of the staff of the West Siberian military district. In 1873 he became a staff captain and in 1875 a captain . 1876 Pewzow was to investigate the Dzungaria drafted. In 1878 he was promoted to Podpolkownik . In 1878 and 1879 he accompanied a trade caravan to Mongolia and the northern provinces of China for study purposes . In 1885 he received the Lütke Medal of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society for his travel report . In 1881 he became Polkownik . In 1883 he crossed the territory of the Russian-Chinese state border established in the Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1881) from western China to the east of Lake Saissan . From 1887–1888 he worked in the Asia department of the main staff . In 1888 he was appointed head of Nikolai Michailowitsch Prschewalski's scientific expedition shortly before his death. In 1889 and 1890, Pewzow led the expedition to East Turkestan , Northern Tibet and Djungaria , in which the geologist Karol Bohdanowicz took part. In 1891 he was promoted to major general. He prepared detailed reports of all his travels, which were published.

Pewzow's names are given to a glacier in the Altai and the Nunatak Gora Pevcova in Antarctica .

Honors, prizes

• Order of Saint Stanislaus III. Class (1874)
• Russian Order of Saint Anne III. Class (1878)
• Order of Saint Vladimir IV Class (1880)
• Order of Saint Stanislaus II class (1883)
• Russian Order of Saint Anne II Class (1888)
• Order of St. Vladimir III. Class (1895)
• Order of Saint Stanislaus I Class (1898)
• Order of the Noble Bukhara (1898)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Певцов (Михаил Васильевич) . In: Brockhaus-Efron . XXVa, 1898, p. 917 ( Wikisource [accessed February 7, 2018]).
2. ↑ Список генералитету по старшинству. Составлен по 1-е мая 1901 года . 1901, p. 586 ( Певцов Михаил Васильевич [accessed February 7, 2018]).
3. ↑ ^{a b} Tibet.ru: Певцов Михаил Васильевич (accessed February 7, 2018).