Background
POZDNEYEV, Aleksey was born in 1851.
POZDNEYEV, Aleksey was born in 1851.
1876 graduate Faculty of Oriental Languages, Saint St. Petersburg University.
From 1884 professor, Saint St. Petersburg University. 1899—1903 co-founder, professor and director, Vladivostok Oriental Institute. 1903-1917 Council member, Minister of Public Education.
1876-1878 and 1892-1893 loured Mongolia and collected Mongolian and Tibetan books and manuscripts, Buddhist religious objects and ethnographic, economics and geographic data.