Nikolaï Mikhaïlovitch Prjevalski
Nikolaï Mikhaïlovitch Prjevalski , also spelled Przewalski , Przhevalsky or Prjevalsky (in Russian: Никола́йМиха́йловичПржева́льский), born the March 31st (April 12th) 1839 in Kimborovo close to Smolensk, deceased the October 20th (November 1st) 1888 with Karakol, was an officer of the Russian army, a geographer, a naturalist and an explorer of the Central Asia. It gave its name to the Cheval of Przewalski.
He attended the college of Smolensk then the Military academy of Saint-Pétersbourg, and taught then the geography at the school of noble of Warsaw. In 1866, it accepted a command in Eastern Asia, where it studied the territory of Oussouri. In Khabarovsk, it had made knowledge with Ivan Alexandrovitch Gontcharov who had, in its Frégate Pallas , to tell in a literary way its meeting with Prschewalski. The well-known voyages of Prschewalski to Central Asia followed.
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