Background
Arseniev was born in Saint St. Petersburg, Russia. His father, born a serf, became the chief of the Moscow District Railway.
Arseniev was born in Saint St. Petersburg, Russia. His father, born a serf, became the chief of the Moscow District Railway.
Vladimir Military School.
He was the first to describe numerous species of Siberian flora and lifestyle of native ethnic people. After a military education, Arseniev began his expeditions to the forests of the Far East. He lived in Vladivostok through the years of the Russian Civil War and was a Commissar for Ethnic Minorities (Komisar po delam inrodcheskim) of the independent Far Eastern Republic.
After the Far Eastern Republic was absorbed by Soviet Russia in 1922 Arsenyev refused to emigrate and stayed in Vladivostok.
Society for the Study of the Amur Region. Russian Geographical Society.
