Wikisource has original works by or about: Nikolay Przhevalsky Nikolay Mikhaylovich Przhevalsky (or Prjevalsky; April 12 [O.S. March 31] 1839 – November...

Central Asia. It is named after the Russian geographer and explorer Nikolay Przhevalsky. Once extinct in the wild, since the 1990s it has been reintroduced...

The wild Bactrian camel (Camelus ferus) is a critically endangered species of camel living in parts of northwestern China and southwestern Mongolia. It...

Muslims fleeing warfare in China. In 1888, the Russian explorer Nikolay Przhevalsky died in Karakol of typhoid, while preparing for an expedition to...

name of the domestic yak variant, Bos grunniens (grunting bull). Nikolay Przhevalsky named the wild variant Bos mutus (silent bull) believing that it...

The wild yak (Bos mutus) is a large, wild bovine native to the Himalayas. It is the ancestor of the domestic yak (Bos grunniens). The ancestor of the wild...

the god may be offered edible wild roots and wild animal meat. Nikolay Przhevalsky describes the almas, as related to him under the name kung-guressu...

red deer species group). It was first scientifically described by Nikolay Przhevalsky in 1883. As of early 2011, more than 100 Thorold's deer are kept...

Viking, 1998. Rayfield, Donald. The Dream of Lhasa: The Life of Nikolay Przhevalsky (1839–88), Explorer of Central Asia. Athens: Ohio University Press...

Chinese and Jurchen emperors with an abundance of delicacies. In 1868, Nikolay Przhevalsky visited Lake Khanka, leaving for posterity his descriptions of the...

The giant grey shrike (Lanius giganteus) is a species of bird in the family Laniidae. It is found in China. Its natural habitat is temperate forests. It...

The wild Bactrian camel (Camelus ferus) was first described by Nikolay Przhevalsky in the late 19th century and has now been established as a distinct...

William Thomas Hamilton, American politician (b. 1820) November 1 – Nikolay Przhevalsky, Russian explorer (b. 1839) November 9 – Mary Jane Kelly, fifth and...

of Nikolay Przhevalsky, which occupies the mansion of the famous traveler. Previously called Sloboda (Слобода́), it was renamed after Przhevalsky in 1964...

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham. He contributed introductions to Nikolay Przhevalsky's Mongolia (1876) and Captain William Gill's The River of Golden Sand...

The Chinese grouse (Tetrastes sewerzowi), also known as Severtzov's grouse or the black-breasted hazel grouse, is a grouse species closely related to the...

Nikolai or Nikolay is an East Slavic variant of the masculine name Nicholas. It may refer to: Nicholas I of Russia (1796–1855), or Nikolay I, Emperor...

L. Pettigrew, American teacher, missionary (d. 1912) April 12 – Nikolay Przhevalsky, Russian explorer (d. 1888) April 16 – Antonio Starabba, Marchese...

Treaty. Younghusband, among other explorers such as Sven Hedin, Nikolay Przhevalsky, Shoqan Walikhanov and Sir Auriel Stein, had participated in earnest...

Prusikclimbing technique of going up or down a rope using knots. Nikolay Przhevalsky, Russisch biologist – Przewalski's horse James Puckle, British inventor...

position to the present Lop Nur dried basin, but the Russian geographer Nikolay Przhevalsky instead found the terminal lake at Kara-Koshun in 1867. Sven Hedin...

April 1877, modern historians think that this is impossible, as Nikolay Przhevalsky met him on 9 May. Chinese sources usually give 22 May as the date...

Tibetan Buddhists, especially every Horse Year of the 12-year cycle. Nikolay Przhevalsky estimated it would take about eight days by horse or 15 walking to...

Voskreskenskaya church was being used as a stable. It was from Kyakhta that Nikolay Przhevalsky, Grigory Potanin, Pyotr Kozlov, and Vladimir Obruchev set off on...

of British Pundits at Lhasa known in Russia. The Russian explorer Nikolay Przhevalsky felt there was a British threat to Russian ambitions in Inner Asia...

Alexander Ostrovsky, Russian playwright and translator (d. 1886) 1839 – Nikolay Przhevalsky, Russian geographer and explorer (d. 1888) 1845 – Gustaf Cederström...

eastern Himalaya. The genus name of Przewalskia is in honour of Nikolay Przhevalsky (1839–1888), a Russian Imperial geographer and a renowned explorer...

troops and there were many desertions. In April or May Yakub met Nikolay Przhevalsky near Korla. In May 1877, Yakub Beg died near Korla, possibly murdered...

general and politician, Russian Minister of Justice (b. 1744) 1888 – Nikolay Przhevalsky, Russian geographer and explorer (b. 1838) 1894 – Alexander III of...

location in Keriya (Hotan, China). The type series was collected by Nikolay Przhevalsky in 1885. There are currently (2012) no other findings. Lindholm W...