Pozdneev Aleksay (1851‒1920) – orientalist, specialist in Mongol studies, religious historian, ethnographer, folklorist, philologist, traveler.
He studied at the Orlovsky Spiritual Seminary (1872), and at the Faculty of Oriental Languages of the St. Petersburg University. Since 1881, he was Professor of the St. Petersburg University; in1899-1903, he was the first Director of the Oriental Institute in Vladivostok; since 1903, he was a member of the Council at the Minister of People’s Education.
Having graduated from the Oriental Faculty of the St. Petersburg University, in 1876, he took part in his first expedition to Mongolia and China, in the course of which he collected Mongolian manuscripts and prints for the library of the Oriental Faculty, and also laid the foundation of his private collection of Buddhist art.
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