Vladimir Tan-Bogoraz

Vladimir Germanovich Bogoraz, best known under literary pseudonym N.A. Tan (April 27, 1865 — May 10, 1936) was a Russian writer and anthropologist, especially known for his studies of the Chukchi people in Siberia. Image File history File links Bogoraz. ... Image File history File links Bogoraz. ... April 27 is the 117th day of the year (118th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 248 days remaining. ... 1865 (MDCCCLXV) is a common year starting on Sunday. ... May 10 is the 130th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (131st in leap years). ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The term Chukchi may refer to Chukchi people Chukchi language This is a disambiguation page—a list of articles associated with the same title. ... Siberia is also an album by Echo & The Bunnymen. ...

Vladimir Bogoraz was born in the city of Taganrog in the family of a Jewish school teacher. In 1882, he enrolled in Saint Petersburg University, Legal Dept., but was dismissed for revolutionary activity with Narodnaya Volya and exiled to his parents' home in Taganrog. He spent 11 months at Taganrog prison for revolutionary propaganda. In 1886, he moved to Saint Petersburg where he was arrested and later exiled into North-Eastern Siberia, near Yakutsk (1889-1899), where he studied the Chukchi, their way of life, traditions, language, beliefs, giving Bogoraz precious material for poems and belletristic essays. Taganrog (Russian: ) is a city and seaport in Rostov Oblast, Russia. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ... 1882 (MDCCCLXXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924), is a city located in Northwestern Russia on the delta of the river Neva at the east end of the Gulf of Finland... Narodnaya Volya (Народная воля in Russian, known as People’s Will in English) was a Russian revolutionary organization in the early 1880s. ... Taganrog (Russian: ) is a city and seaport in Rostov Oblast, Russia. ... 1886 (MDCCCLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Friday (click on link to calendar) // Events January 18 - Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. ... Siberia is also an album by Echo & The Bunnymen. ... The tower of ostrog, or fort, in Yakutsk was constructed in 1683. ... The term Chukchi may refer to Chukchi people Chukchi language This is a disambiguation page—a list of articles associated with the same title. ...

Bogoraz published his first literary works in the early 1880s, but he became famous by 1896-1897 under literary pseudonym Tan for poems and novels published in various periodicals. In 1899, he published the book 'Chukchi Tales' and in 1900, 'The Verses'. The materials, published by Tan-Bogoraz in perodicals of the Russian Academy of Sciences, such as 'Specimens of Materials for Studying Chukchi Language and Folklore' and 'Studies of Chukchi Language and Folklore Collected in Kolyma District' were a very valuable contribution to development of linguistics and made the author popular around the world. In 1899, by recommendation of the Academy of Sciences, Bogoraz was invited by New York's American Museum of Natural History for the Jessup North Pacific Expedition (1900-1901) aimed at studying the ethnography, anthropology and archaeology of the Northern coasts of the Pacific Ocean, where Tan-Bogoraz and his friend Vladimir Jochelson were in charge of the Anadyr region of Siberia, gathering materials for ethnography of Chukchi, Koryaks, Lamuts and other indigenous Siberian peoples. He fled Russia for political reasons in 1901 and settled in New York City, where he became curator of the American Museum, and produced his great works The Chukchee (1904–09) and Chukchee Mythology (1910). 1896 (MDCCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1897 (MDCCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1900 (MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday. ... Russian Academy of Sciences: main building Russian Academy of Sciences (Росси́йская Акаде́мия Нау́к) is the national academy of Russia. ... Linguistics is the scientific study of human language, and someone who engages in this study is called a linguist. ... 1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Official language(s) None, English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 27th 141,205 km² 455 km 530 km 13. ... The American Museum of Natural History is a landmark of Manhattans Upper West Side in New York, USA, at 79th Street and Central Park West. ... 1900 (MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday. ... 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Anadyr, Russia Anadyr River Anadyr Gulf Operation Anadyr This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The term Chukchi may refer to Chukchi people Chukchi language This is a disambiguation page—a list of articles associated with the same title. ... See also: Koryakia Autonomous District Koryaks, a Mongoloid people of northeastern Siberia, inhabiting the coastlands of the Bering Sea to the south of the Anadyr basin and the country to the immediate north of the Kamchatka Peninsula, the southernmost limit of their range being Tigilsk. ... The Evens (formerly known as the Lamuts) (Эвены in Russian) are a people in Siberia. ... 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Nickname: The Big Apple Official website: City of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Geographical characteristics Area Total 468. ...

Tan-Bogoraz returned to Russia in 1904, Bogoraz helped to organize the first peasant congress and the Labour Group in the Duma. In 1910 was published the collection of his works in ten volumes. In 1917, he became professor of ethnology at Petrograd University. During the 1920s and '30s he did important anthropological work creating and teaching written languages for indigenous Siberian peoples and founded the Institute of the Northern Peoples in Leningrad. 1904 (MCMIV) was a leap year starting on a Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... A Duma (Ду́ма in Russian) is any of various representative assemblies in modern Russia and Russian history. ... -1... 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924), is a city located in Northwestern Russia on the delta of the river Neva at the east end of the Gulf of Finland...