People
Buriat
Better known as BuryatsБуриад
Four travelers wrote about Buriat between 1870 and 1929. Here is what each of them saw, in the order they were there.
- 1870–1882
Among the Mongols
The Mongol people of Siberia, living under Russian rule around Lake Baikal. Gilmour's winter journey retraces the old London Missionary Society mission to them, whose missionaries translated the Scriptures into Buriat before the Emperor Nicholas closed the work in 1841.
…afterwards, when my host came home with a good story of how some Buriats having fallen in with a nondescript individual, who would give no account of himself, had…Listen from here · chapter 3, 3:18Superficial judges have sometimes condemned it, because frequently a Buriat or a Mongol will look at it, read a little, shut up the book, and hand it back saying he…Listen from here · chapter 5, 21:17 - 1893–1929
Larson, Duke of Mongolia
The Buryats, the Mongol people of the forests and steppe around Lake Baikal in Siberia. Larson watched them ride back south onto the plateau after the Russian Revolution; the London Missionary Society worked among them at Selenginsk.
Very curiously, a tribe of Mongols, known as the Buriats, who lived in peace and prosperity under the pre-Revolution regime in Russia, are riding…Listen from here · chapter 8, 1:10:18…Society planted a mission among the Mongol tribe known as the Buriats, at a place called Selenginsk, which lies to the southeast of Lake Baikal and near the…Listen from here · chapter 10, 1:21 - 1919–1920
Across Mongolian PlainsRoy Chapman Andrews
A Mongolic people of the Lake Baikal region, now centered on the Republic of Buryatia in Russia.
…treaties, and now that they have no control over their subjects the Buriat tribes have constantly conspired and cooperated with bandits, and repeatedly sent…Listen from here · chapter 2, 6:20The Buriats, with their bandit Allies, now considering us unwilling to espouse their cause,…Listen from here · chapter 2, 6:56 - 1920–1921
Beasts, Men and Gods
The Mongol people of the Baikal country: Buriat riders filled Ungern's and Bezrodnoff's detachments, and their great Prince Djam Bolon sat with the Baron at Urga.
…always referred to as Ta Kure, “The Great Monastery.” The reason the Buriats and Russians, who were the first to trade into this region, called it Urga was because it…Listen from here · chapter 35, 1:58…Buddha carved in agate; in another corner a big crowd of Mongols and Buriats had collected and surrounded a Chinese merchant selling finely painted snuff-bottles of…Listen from here · chapter 39, 5:35
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