The Collection of Selected Articles of Nikolai Yadrintsev (1842一1894), the publicist, public figure, researcher of Siberia, archaeologist, and ethnographer, was issued to mark the 25th anniversary of his death on June 7, 1894. The Collection was published as a special edition of the ‘Sibirskiye Zapiski’ (‘Siberian Notes’) magazine.
Nikolai Yadrintsev was born on October 18, 1842, in Omsk in a merchant family. He studied in Tomsk gymnasium, then moved to Petersburg, where became a non-matriculated student at Saint Petersburg State University.
In Saint Petersburg, he met the ethnographer Grigory Potanin. The community of Siberian students was organized on their initiative. At their meetings, they talked about the need to study one’s own region, about compiling a bibliography of Siberian books, about future Siberian magazines and newspapers. Nikolai Yadrintsev advocated the need to open a university in Siberia. Soon the young publicist returned to Omsk.
In spring 1865, in the Siberian cadet corps, a leaflet “To the Siberian Patriots” was found in possession of the Cossack officer Fyodor Usov’s younger brother. A ‘criminal case of malicious actions of some young people seeking to subvert the existing order of government in Siberia and to separate it from the empire’ was initiated. Yadrintsev was arrested among many others and sent to Omsk. The ‘separatists’ made the most of the years spent in the Omsk prison, learning Siberian history. They managed to get permission to analyze the region archives. As a result, Yadrintsev wrote an article about women in Siberia of the 17th一18th centuries, collected the material on the exiles and tramps for the book ‘Russian community in prison and exile, ” and got engaged in ethnographic work.
After his exile ended, he entered the service of Western Siberian Central Administration at the invitation of the governor-general Nikolai Kaznakov. In the 1870一1880-s, he published articles on the most painful problems of Siberia, was engaged in scientific research, and went on numerous expeditions. Nikolai Yadrintsev was one of the initiators of the West Siberian department of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society in 1877. In 1894, Yadrintsev passed away in Barnaul. In 1900, a monument with the inscription “The Siberians to Siberian writer and publicist” was erected on his grave on donations.
Nikolai Yadrintsev was born on October 18, 1842, in Omsk in a merchant family. He studied in Tomsk gymnasium, then moved to Petersburg, where became a non-matriculated student at Saint Petersburg State University.
In Saint Petersburg, he met the ethnographer Grigory Potanin. The community of Siberian students was organized on their initiative. At their meetings, they talked about the need to study one’s own region, about compiling a bibliography of Siberian books, about future Siberian magazines and newspapers. Nikolai Yadrintsev advocated the need to open a university in Siberia. Soon the young publicist returned to Omsk.
In spring 1865, in the Siberian cadet corps, a leaflet “To the Siberian Patriots” was found in possession of the Cossack officer Fyodor Usov’s younger brother. A ‘criminal case of malicious actions of some young people seeking to subvert the existing order of government in Siberia and to separate it from the empire’ was initiated. Yadrintsev was arrested among many others and sent to Omsk. The ‘separatists’ made the most of the years spent in the Omsk prison, learning Siberian history. They managed to get permission to analyze the region archives. As a result, Yadrintsev wrote an article about women in Siberia of the 17th一18th centuries, collected the material on the exiles and tramps for the book ‘Russian community in prison and exile, ” and got engaged in ethnographic work.
After his exile ended, he entered the service of Western Siberian Central Administration at the invitation of the governor-general Nikolai Kaznakov. In the 1870一1880-s, he published articles on the most painful problems of Siberia, was engaged in scientific research, and went on numerous expeditions. Nikolai Yadrintsev was one of the initiators of the West Siberian department of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society in 1877. In 1894, Yadrintsev passed away in Barnaul. In 1900, a monument with the inscription “The Siberians to Siberian writer and publicist” was erected on his grave on donations.
