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Photo, Print, Drawing Voyage scientifique dans l'Altaï Oriental et les parties adjacentes de la frontière de Chine fait par ordre de S. M. l'Empereur de Russie par Pierre de Tchihatcheff.

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Title

  • Voyage scientifique dans l'Altaï Oriental et les parties adjacentes de la frontière de Chine fait par ordre de S. M. l'Empereur de Russie par Pierre de Tchihatcheff.

Translated Title

  • Scientific Journey in East Altai and the Adjacent Parts of the Chinese Border Made by the Order of H. M. the Emperor of Russia by Pierre de Chikhachev.

Summary

  • This book, published in France in 1845, presents a series of illustrations of the eastern Altai, or Altay, region in southern Siberia near the Russo-Chinese border. The author and compiler, Petr Chikhachev, was a Russian geologist and renowned traveler who had gone to the rugged Altai Range on a scientific and cultural expedition. Despite much effort, Chikhachev was unable to publish his work in Russia. He eventually left Russia for Paris, where he succeeded in bringing out a French edition. The book includes illustrations by the noted Russian artists E. Mayer and Ivan Aivazovskii of the steep valleys, deep lakes, and wide rivers typical of the area through which Chikhachev traveled. It also includes plates by Eduard von Kornatzki of fossilized plant specimens from the Altai, reflecting the research focus of the expedition. Some of the illustrations show peoples from the region and their mode of dress, as well as vignettes, such as horses at a rural encampment and a camel caravan traversing a valley pass. Most of these images are bucolic and pastoral, and thus tap into a common idealized Russian vision of the conquest of Siberia. They resonate nonetheless, evoking such ancient traditions as the long caravans that for centuries moved from China into the Russian steppe to transport tea to Russia and Europe. The Russian expansion into this region under the tsars inevitably resulted in tensions with imperial China, which in the course of the 19th century was weakened by external intervention by the Western powers and the domestic upheaval known as the Taiping Rebellion (1850-64). Imperial Russia capitalized on the weakness of its Asian neighbor to expand far beyond the Altai to Vladivostok and the farthest reaches of Eastern Siberia and the Russian Far East. World Digital Library.

Names

  • Chikhachev, P. A. (Petr Aleksandrovich), 1808-1890, creator.
  • Aĭvazovskiĭ, Ivan Konstantinovich, 1817-1900.
  • Kornatzki, Eduard von.
  • Mayer, E., contributor.
  • Nicholas I, Emperor of Russia, 1796-1855, patron.

Headings

  • -  Altai--atlas
  • -  geography
  • -  Botany
  • -  Description and travel
  • -  Fossils
  • -  Landscape prints
  • -  Mountains
  • -  Rivers
  • -  Russian Federation
  • -  Altai Krai

Notes

  • -  Original image at: Russian State Library

Medium

  • 32 pages : single and multi-colored.

Source Collection

  • Graphic Publications from the Russian State Library

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2018694070

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Chikhachev, P. A. , Creator, Ivan Konstantinovich Aĭvazovskiĭ, Eduard Von Kornatzki, E Mayer, and Emperor Of Russia Nicholas I. Voyage scientifique dans l'Altaï Oriental et les parties adjacentes de la frontière de Chine fait par ordre de S. M. l'Empereur de Russie par Pierre de Tchihatcheff. Altai Krai Russian Federation, 1845. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2018694070/.

APA citation style:

Chikhachev, P. A., Aĭvazovskiĭ, I. K., Kornatzki, E. V., Mayer, E. & Nicholas I, E. O. R. (1845) Voyage scientifique dans l'Altaï Oriental et les parties adjacentes de la frontière de Chine fait par ordre de S. M. l'Empereur de Russie par Pierre de Tchihatcheff. Altai Krai Russian Federation, 1845. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2018694070/.

MLA citation style:

Chikhachev, P. A. , Creator, et al. Voyage scientifique dans l'Altaï Oriental et les parties adjacentes de la frontière de Chine fait par ordre de S. M. l'Empereur de Russie par Pierre de Tchihatcheff. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2018694070/>.