Kharusin Nickolay

Kharusin Nickolay (1865–1900) – ethnographer.

After the gymnasium, he enrolled at the Legal Faculty of the Moscow University. In 1890, he quitted the university and got the degree of Candidate in History in 1893 only, graduating from the Yurievsky University by correspondence. He has made field ethnographical expeditions to Siberia, the Caucasus, the Crimea, the North-West of Russia since 1886.

In 1892, he went to Europe; in Germany and France he studied ethnographic collections of leading museums and visited lectures at several universities.

In 1889-1893, he was Secretary of the Ethnographical Department of the Society of Admirers of Natural Studies; he edited the ‘Collection of Data for Studying the Common Life of Peasants of Russia’, and ‘Etnograficheskoe obozrenie’ (Ethnographic Survey) Magazine (1889).

He was the first in Russia (since 1898) who started to make lectures in ethnography at the Moscow University and at the Lazarev Institute if Oriental Languages.

He died at the age of 35 only. His work was followed by his sister Vera Nickolaevna Kharusina.

Compositions

On Noidas of Ancient and Contemporary Lapps // Etnograficheskoe obozrenie. Book I, Moscow, 1889. (in Rus.)
From Materials, Collected Among Peasants of the Pudozh District of the Olonetz Gov. Moscow, 1889. (in Rus.)
Russian Lapps: Essays on the Past and Contemporary Common Life // Izvestiya of the Imperial Society of Admirers of Natural Sciences, Anthropology and Ethnography. 1890, vol. LXVI. (in Rus.)
A Survey of Pre-Historical Archeology in the Baltic Gov. Revel’, 1893. (in Rus.)
An Essay on the History of Evolution of House of Finns // Etnograficheskoe obozrenie. 1895, book XXIV, No 1; book XXV, No 2. (in Rus.)
The History of Evolution of House of Nomadic and Half-Nomadic Turk and Mongol Peoples of Russia // Etnograficheskoe obozrenie. Book XXIX– XXX, No 2, 1896. (in Rus.)
On Some Data on the History of Kokkenhausen. Moscow, 1896. (in Rus.)
Essays on the Primordial Law: Family and Clan. Moscow, 1898. (in Rus.)
The Bear Oath and Totemic Bases of the Bear Cult at Ostyaks and Voguls // Etnograficheskoe obozrenie. Book XXXVIII, No 3, 1898. (in Rus.)
Ethnography: Lectures at the Moscow University. The General Part and Material Culture. St. Petersburg. Iss. I - IV, 1901–1905. (Prepared for publ. by V. N. Kharusina) (in Rus.)

Bibliography

Bibliographical List of the Published Works by N. N. Kharusin // Etnograficheskoe obozrenie. Book XLV, No 2, 1900. (in Rus.)

About him

Miller V. F. Nickolay Nickolaevich Kharusin: Orbituary // Etnograficheskoe obozrenie. Book XLV, No 2, 1900. (in Rus.)
Tokarev S. А. The History of Russian Ethnography. Moscow, 1966. (in Rus.)
Tokarev S. А. The History of Foreign Ethnography. Moscow, 1978. (in Rus.)

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