No CrossRef data available.
Article contents
A Soviet Historical Novel About Mongolia: Schastlivyi Oazis (Lucky Oasis) by Mikhail Kolesnikov1
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 March 2011
Extract
Leading characters in this novel are “Zhamtso,” head of the Mongolian Scientific Committee; “Andreἴ Makarovich Turanov,” a Russian geographer, “Roy Webster,” leader of an American expedition in the Gobi Desert; and “Nakamura,” a Japanese officer spying in Outer Mongolia. These thinly-disguised names may be penetrated as: Tsyben Zhamtsaranovich Zhamtsarano (1880–1940?), founder of the Mongolian Scientific Committee and its “perpetual secretary”; Eduard Makarovich Murzaev, a prominent Soviet geographer and author of a Stalin Prize-winning physical geography of the Mongolian People's Republic (Outer Mongolia); Roy Chapman Andrews, leader of the Central Asiatic Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, director of the Museum for many years, now living in California; “Nakamura” is not identifiable under this or any other name.
- Type
- Notes
- Information
- Copyright
- Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1955
References
2 Murzaev, E. M., Mongol'skaya Narodnaya Respublika. Fiziko-geograficheskoe opisanie (The Mongolian People's Republic. Physical-geographical description) (Moscow, 1948, 1st ed.)i 314Google Scholar, (Moscow, 1952, 2nd ed.) 472. For a review comparing the two editions, see Rupen, , in HJAS, 18 (06 1955).Google Scholar
3 A close friend of Zhamtsarano's, also a Buriat-Mongol, was named Badzar Baradievich Baradin (1878–1937). He for many years headed the Buriat-Mongolian Institute of History, Language, and Culture. In 1937 he was shot.
4 Andrews, Roy Chapman, The New Conquest of Central Asia (New York, 1932), Vol. 1Google Scholar. (This work is subsequently cited as NCCA.) A map at the end of this volume indicates, with dates, the route of the expedition.
5 A bibliography of Zhamtsarano's writings, believed to be complete, will appear in Rupen, “Zhamtsarano,” HJAS, 18 (12 1955).Google Scholar
6 N. N. Poppe worked with Zhamtsarano in Leningrad from 1932 to 1937 and knew him well. Professor Poppe is now at the University of Washington.
7 Erdeni Dzu, the first monastery in Mongolia, was founded in 1586 on the site of Karakorum, which had been established by Ogodai, son of Cinggis Khan. It thus bore a peculiarly potent historical and religious significance to the Mongols.
8 Cf. Kolarz, , 140Google Scholar: “From the Soviet point of view it would have been better if the ruins of the Mongolian cultural and political center had never been found at all. Their existence has served as an inspiration to Mongolian nationalism and to Pan-Mongolian ideas.”
9 NCCA. 249Google Scholar (expressed by Andrews himself), 564 (by Berkey and Morris), 587 (by Berkey, Grabau, Morris, and Spock), 610 (by “N.C.N.” [Nels C. Nelson]).
10 Murzaev, , 1st ed., 105–106Google Scholar; 2nd ed., 184–190 and point 4 of conclusions (444).
11 Pravda (03 15, 1951)Google Scholar, a third prize of 25,000 rubles: “To Murzaev, Eduard Markovich, Doctor of Geographical Science, long-time scientific collaborator in the Institute of Geography of the Academy of Sciences of the USSP—for the scientific-popular work, Mongol'skaya Narodnaya Respublika, published in 1948.”
12 NCCA. 137.Google Scholar
13 NCCA, 230.Google Scholar
14 NCCA. 262.Google Scholar