Alexander Grigoriev (1848-1908) was a Russian botanist and ethnographer, the Secretary of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society (1883-1903).
In 1878, he was admitted as a Full Member of the Geographical Society, and in 1879, the Society sent him on an official trip on board steam schooner Nordenshöld with the task to circumvent the continent of Asia from the south and come to the rescue of Baron A. Nordenshöld, who wintered at that time with the Vega steamer off the coast of Siberia. The schooner took the bottom near the Japanese island of Hokkaido. Taking advantage of the involuntary stop in Japan, Grigoriev lent himself to ethnographic researches on the Ainu.
On his return to Russia in 1880, he donated his assembled collections: zoological - to the Imperial Academy of Sciences, and ethnographic - to the Geographical Society. In the same year, he was elected as the Secretary of the Ethnography Department of the Geographical Society. In 1887, he participated in the expedition of the Geographical Society to Novaya Zemlya, where he assembled nature-historical collections, which he later transferred to the Museum of the Academy of Sciences. In 1889, he was one of the Society's delegates at the geographical congress in Paris.
The last Grigoriev's major venture was organization of the Tibetan expedition of G. Tsybikov (1899-1902) and preparation for the publication of the description of this trip, A Buddhist Pilgrim at the Shrines of Tibet.
The main illustration shows a portrait of A. Grigoriev, the background provides his photographs of a baggage-man and a temple in ancient Kamakur, as well as a RGS logo; the commemorative stamp features symbolic images of geographical projects.
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| Letter “B” |
Chalk surfaced |
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105 × 148 mm |
5,5 thousand postcards |