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M.A. Castrén continued the European tradition of expeditions in Russia but he was also able to fulfil the needs of the Imperial Russian administration for information about the Empire as well as the Finnish national movement’s request to explore the history of the Finnish people. This two-part volu...

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Main Author: Castrén, Matthias Alexander 1813-1852 (Author)
Other Authors: Salminen, Timo 1967- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:Finnish
Published: Helsinki Finno-Ugrian Society 2019
Series:Manuscripta Castreniana. Personalia
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Summary:M.A. Castrén continued the European tradition of expeditions in Russia but he was also able to fulfil the needs of the Imperial Russian administration for information about the Empire as well as the Finnish national movement’s request to explore the history of the Finnish people. This two-part volume contains the reports and previously unpublished diaries written by Castrén in Finnish Lapland in 1838, Finnish and Russian Karelia in 1839, Finnish Lapland and Arctic Russia in 1841-1844, and in Siberia in 1845-1849. The introductory article contextualizes them in the intellectual and scholarly environment of the time.
Physical Description:2 Bände
ISBN:9789527262122

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