A HISTORY OF MONGOLIAN STUDIES IN RUSSIA: FROM THE MEMOIRS OF G.I. MIKHAYLOV (1909-1986)
The article is dedicated to the recollections of G.I. Mikhaylov - a 20th c. prominent Russian researcher of Mongolia in which he remembers his teachers and colleagues - B.Ya. Vladimirtsov, G.E. Grum-Grshimailo, A.V. Burdukov, S.A. Kozin, N.N. Poppe and G.N. Rumyantsev and which were discovered in the private collection of N.P. Shastina now kept in the Archives of Orientalists at the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Science. G.I. Mikhailov called his memoirs ‘notebooks about the distinguished Russian orientalists’, in them he was also describing the details of his life at that time, his personal opinions and views on various events taking place in the life of his ‘characters’. The memoirs cover the period of more than forty years - from 1926 till 1967. They are written in a vivid captivating language with the use of dialogue.