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Chokan Valikhanov Selected Works of Chokan Valikhanov Edited by Nick Fielding Translated by Arch Tait Embassy of Kazakhstan in the United Kingdom, in partnership with Cambridge University Press, 2020 Hardback, ISBN 978 1 5262 0845 3 320 pages, black and white photographs and tables | ||||
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Chokan Valikhanov
Born
in 1835 into a wealthy and powerful Kazakh clan, Chokan Valikhanov was
one of the first 'people of the steppe' to receive a Russian education
and military training. His famous mission to Kashgar in Chinese
Turkestan, which began in June 1858 and lasted for more than a year, saw
him in disguise as a Tashkent merchant risking his life to gather
information not just on current events, but also on the ethnic make-up,
geography, flora and fauna of this unknown region. He was elected to
membership of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society and was given a
private audience by the Tsar. He struck up strong and lasting
friendships with the likes of the Russian explorer Pyotr
Semyonov-Tian-Shansky and the writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Valikhanov died
of tuberculosis in 1865, aged only 29. | |||
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Updated : 24 Dec 2020