Author: Radloff, Wilhelm [or Vasilij Vasil'evic Radlov].
Title: Aus Siberien. Lose Blätter aus meinem Tagebuche. 2. Ausgabe.
Description: Leipzig, 1893. [Reprint: Oosterhout, Anthropological Publications, 1968]. 2 vols in 1. 534,[2], 486,[3] pp. [32] b./w. plts, incl. 2 map (incl. 1 fold. map). Orig. hardcover (green linen), gilt lettered on spine. - Spine-ends very sl. worn.Rather rare photomechanical reprint of the second edition: Leipzig, 1893. Original copies of this important monograph are extremely rare. - - Vasily Vasilievich Radlov or Friedrich Wilhelm Radloff (1837 - 1918) was a German-born Russian founder of Turkology, a scientific study of Turkic peoples. He based the work on one of his early expeditions to Siberia. From 1859-1870, Radloff traveled to Siberia, Altai, and Turkestan ten times where he researched local languages, anthropology and archaeology. The results of his studies were published in this monograph. During the Stalinist repressions of the late 1930s, the NKVD and state science apparatus accused the late (ethnically German) Radloff of Panturkism. A perceived connection with the long-dead Radloff was treated as incriminating evidence against Orientalists and Turkologists, some of whom, including Alexander Samoylovich, in 1938, were executed.

Keywords: Ethnography Asia Siberia Etnografie Azië Siberië