A Visit to the Sarö and Shera Yögurs
by Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
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In order to disguise the military nature of his secret mission, Gustaf Mannerheim, a colonel in the Russian Imperial Army who would go on to be the President of Finland, conducted extensive ethnographic research and collected Silk Road artifacts during his journey through China from 1906 to 1908. For the journey’s first leg, from Samarkand to Kashgar, he even accompanied the French expedition of Paul Pelliot, one of the greatest Sinologists of the twentieth century.Before leaving Helsinki, Mannerheim contacted Otto Donner, a professor of comparative linguistics and President of the Finno-Ugria...
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