Everything about Vladimir Bogoraz totally explained
Vladimir Germanovich Bogoraz, best known under literary pseudonym N.A. Tan (
April 27,
1865 —
May 10,
1936) was a
Russian revolutionary, writer and anthropologist, especially known for his studies of the
Chukchi people in
Siberia.
Vladimir Bogoraz was born in the city of
Ovruch in the family of a
Jewish school teacher. After finishing
Chekhov Gymnasium in 1882, he enrolled in
Saint Petersburg University, Legal Dept., but was dismissed for revolutionary activity with
Narodnaya Volya and exiled to his parents' home in
Taganrog. He spent 11 months at Taganrog prison for revolutionary propaganda. In 1886, he moved to Saint Petersburg where he was arrested and later exiled into North-Eastern
Siberia, near
Yakutsk (1889-1899), where he studied the
Chukchi people, their way of life, traditions,
language, and beliefs, giving Bogoraz precious material for poems and essays.
Bogoraz published his first literary works in the early 1880s, but he became famous by 1896–1897 under literary pseudonym
Tan for poems and novels published in various periodicals. In 1899, he published the book 'Chukchi Tales' and in 1900, 'The Verses'. The materials, published by Tan-Bogoraz in periodicals of the
Russian Academy of Sciences, such as 'Specimens of Materials for Studying Chukchi Language and Folklore' and 'Studies of Chukchi Language and Folklore Collected in Kolyma District' were a very valuable contribution to development of
linguistics and made the author popular around the world. In 1899, by recommendation of the Academy of Sciences, Bogoraz was invited by
New York's
American Museum of Natural History for the
Jesup North Pacific Expedition (1900–1901) aimed at studying the ethnography, anthropology and archaeology of the Northern coasts of the
Pacific Ocean, where Tan-Bogoraz and his friend
Vladimir Jochelson were in charge of the
Anadyr region of Siberia, gathering materials for ethnography of
Chukchi,
Koryaks,
Lamuts and other indigenous Siberian peoples. He fled
Russia for political reasons in 1901 and settled in
New York City, where he became curator of the American Museum, and produced his great works
The Chukchee (1904–09) and
Chukchee Mythology (1910).
Tan-Bogoraz returned to Russia in 1904, Bogoraz helped to organize the first peasant congress and the Labour Group in the
Duma. In 1910 was published the collection of his works in ten volumes. In 1917, he became professor of ethnology at
Petrograd University. Bogoraz, with the help of
Lev Sternberg organized the fist Russian ethnography center at the University. During the 1920s and '30s he did important anthropological work creating and teaching written languages for indigenous Siberian peoples and founded the Institute of the Northern Peoples in
Leningrad.
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