1. Nikolay Przhevalsky contributed substantially to European knowledge of Central Asian geography.
13 Facts About Nikolay Przhevalsky
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Nikolay Przhevalsky was a mentor of the explorer Pyotr Kozlov.
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Nikolay Przhevalsky was born in the Kimborovo family estate which belonged to his grandfather from his mother's side, a Russian nobleman Aleksei Stepanovich Karetnikov, and his wife Ksenia Davydovna Karetnikova who came from local merchants, both natives of the Tula Governorate.
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Nikolay Przhevalsky described what was then considered to be a wild population of Bactrian camel.
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Nikolay Przhevalsky's writings include five major books written in Russian and two English translations: Mongolia, the Tangut Country, and the Solitudes of Northern Tibet [1] and From Kulja, Across the Tian Shan to Lob-Nor.
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Nikolay Przhevalsky died of typhus not long before the beginning of his fifth journey, at Karakol on the shore of Issyk Kul in present-day Kyrgyzstan.
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Nikolay Przhevalsky contracted typhoid from the Chu River, which was acknowledged as being infected with the disease.
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Nikolay Przhevalsky's name is eponymic with more than 80 plant species as well.
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Nikolay Przhevalsky is honoured in the scientific names of five species of lizards: Alsophylax przewalskii, Eremias przewalskii, Phrynocephalus przewalskii, Scincella przewalskii, and Teratoscincus przewalskii.
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Nikolay Przhevalsky purportedly argued that imperial China's hold on its northern territories, in particular Xinjiang and Mongolia, was tenuous and uncertain, and Przhevalsky openly called for Russia's annexation of bits and pieces of China's territory.
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Nikolay Przhevalsky proposed Russia provoke rebellions of the Buddhist and Muslim peoples in these areas of China against the Chinese regime, start a war with China, and, with a small number of Russian troops, wrest control of Turkestan from China.
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Nikolay Przhevalsky is known to have had a personal relationship with Tasya Nuromskaya, whom he met in Smolensk.
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Nikolay Przhevalsky died of a sunstroke while Przhevalsky was on an expedition.