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ISBN: 0904180603 Year: 1998 Publisher: London Hakluyt society
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Mountains --- Description and travel --- Semenov-Ti︠a︡nʹ-Shanskiī, Petr Petrovich, --- Travel --- Tien Shan --- Description and travel.
ISBN: 131708151X 1317081528 1315600277 1283247798 9786613247797 1409433730 9781409433736 0904180603 9780904180602 Year: 2021 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Routledge,
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In the mid-nineteenth century the eyes of western European explorers were firmly fixed on advancing inland from former maritime colonies in the Americas, Africa, the Indian sub-continent and Australasia, their motives often being inextricably bound up with concerns of imperial politics and commerce. Simultaneously, further east, Russians resumed their perceived mission to civilise Asia, following their own country's humiliation during the Crimean War. From a springboard of Siberian territories acquired gradually over the previous three centuries, discovery and expansion radiated from the Imperial Russian Geographical Society, founded in 1845 and incorporating initiatives drawn from descendants of immigrant French and German scientists who themselves inspired a new generation of liberal intellectuals. A key personality in that movement was the Society's librarian and secretary of its physical geography section, P. P. Semenov (1827-1914), a member of a minor gentry family who had been tutored by a pupil of Linnacus and who had studied under Ritter and von Humboldt at Berlin during a tour of Europe in 1853-4. From them he conceived the notion of travelling to the virtually unknown lands of Central Asia, ostensibly to verify opinions on the existence there of active volcanoes and glaciers. In reality his ambition was to penetrate beyond the Kazakh steppe and to reach the fabled Celestial Mountains, the Tian'-Shan' range, which constituted the politically sensitive border between Russia and China and the equally hostile buffer zone of Muslim kahnates. Accompanied only by a serf servant, in May 1856 Semenov embarked on a 18-month journey from St Petersburg through Kazan' to Semipalatinsk, and thence via the Altai to the newly established Russian settlement of Vernoe (later Alma-Ata, now Almaty). Subsequently he received a Cossack escort on his trek into the high plateaus and ridges surrounding Issyk-kul', to 'the very heart of Asia'. Throughout his
Mountains --- Description and travel --- Semenov-Ti︠a︡nʹ-Shanskiī, Petr Petrovich, --- Travel --- Tien Shan --- Description and travel.
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ISBN: 9789004292413 9004292411 Year: 2015 Volume: 1 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston Brill
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Painting --- gouden eeuw (Holland) --- art market --- private collections --- easel paintings [paintings by form] --- Semenov, Pjotr Petrovetsji --- anno 1900-1999 --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1800-1899 --- Netherlands --- Flanders --- Saint Petersburg --- Painting, Dutch --- Peinture --- Peinture hollandaise --- Collectors and collecting --- History --- Catalogs. --- Collectionneurs et collections --- Histoire --- Catalogues --- Semenov-Tian'-Shanskii, Petr, --- Art collections --- Catalogs --- Gosudarstvennyi Ermitazh (Russia) --- kunsthandel --- Hermitage Sint-Petersburg --- geschiedenis --- verzamelingen --- verzameling Pyotr Semenov --- Semenov, Pyotr --- Bode, Wilhelm --- Bredius, Abraham --- Hofstede de Groot, Cornelis --- 1860 - 1910 --- 17de eeuw --- 19de eeuw --- 20ste eeuw --- Sint-Petersburg --- Nederlanden --- State Hermitage Museum (Sint-Petersburg) --- Semenov-Ti͡anʹ-Shanskiĭ, Petr, --- Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia) --- Semenov-Ti︠a︡nʹ-Shanskiĭ, Petr, --- Von Bode, Wilhelm --- kunsthandel. --- State Hermitage Museum (Sint-Petersburg). --- geschiedenis. --- verzamelingen. --- verzameling Pyotr Semenov. --- Semenov, Pyotr. --- Von Bode, Wilhelm. --- Bredius, Abraham. --- Hofstede de Groot, Cornelis. --- 1860 - 1910. --- 17de eeuw. --- 19de eeuw. --- 20ste eeuw. --- Sint-Petersburg. --- Nederlanden. --- private collections [object groupings] --- Hollandse school --- collecting, Russia --- Vlaamse school
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