Nikolai Vladimirovich Chanykov

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Chanykow's grave in the Pere Lachaise cemetery

Nikolai Wladimirowitsch Chanykow ( Russian: Николай Владимирович Ханыков ; born October 24, 1819 in Kaluga Governorate ; † December 15, 1878 in Rambouillet near Paris ) was a Russian explorer .

Khanykov was educated at the Tsarskoye Selo City Lyceum . He took the train 1839/40 Perowskijs against Khiva part and traveled 1841-42 to Bukhara . Later he was employed by the Russian consulate in Persia . From 1858 to 1860 he carried out a successful expedition to Khorasan , which led from Tehran via Mashhad and Herat to Lasch on the swamp of Hamun and Hamoun . He returned to Tehran via the Lut , Kerman and Yazd desert .

Nikolai Vladimirovich Chanykow died on December 15, 1878 in Rambouillet.

Works

  • a description of the Bukhara Khanate in Russian (in English by De Bode 1845 )
  • Mémoire sur la partie méridionale de l'Asie centrale . ( 1861 , digitized version )
  • Etude sur l'instruction publique en Russie . ( 1865 )
  • Mémoire sur l'ethnographie de la Perse . ( 1866 )

literature

  • Yevgeny Zhukov and others: Sovetskaya istoritscheskaja enziklopedija: Tom 15 . Sovetskaya enziklopedija, Moscow 1974, col. 516-517. (Russian)

Web links

Wikisource: Nikolai Chanykow  - Sources and full texts (Russian)
personal data
SURNAME Chanykov, Nikolai Vladimirovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ханыков, Николай Владимирович (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian explorer
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaluga Governorate
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1878
Place of death Rambouillet