Georgy Antonovich Planson (Planson-Rostkov) ( 1859 - 1937 ) - Russian diplomat.
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| Alma mater | St. Petersburg University St. Petersburg University |
Biography
He graduated from the Eastern and Law faculties of St. Petersburg University . Since 1888 - in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Senior Asian Department Officer. In 1903-1905, he was a diplomatic official under the governor of the Far East, E. I. Alekseev . In 1905 - member of the Russian delegation at the peace talks in Portsmouth .
Since 1893 - a full member of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society [1] .
Consul General in Seoul (1906-1908).
| Planson tried to preserve the diplomatic nature of his post under the emperor , although protectorate, but the Japanese residency strongly opposed this, and since our plans did not include “breaking copies” with the Japanese regarding their policies in Korea, Planson had to reconcile with position of the consul general, all the more so since all foreign representatives were appointed by their government as consuls. [2] |
Envoy in Siam at the court of King Rama V Chulalongkorn . (1908-1916). Working in Siam, he collected a collection of Buddhist and Hindu sculptures. Envoy in Switzerland (1916-1917).
After the revolution of 1917 - in exile.
The collection of the Siamese sculpture of Planson, remaining “ownerless” in Russia, was transferred to the Buddhist section of the Ethnographic Department of the Russian Museum. In 1931, in connection with the general reorganization of museums, the collection entered the Hermitage, where it was stored unexplored and unpublished until the mid-1990s.
Another part of the Planson collection (Hindu sculpture and ritual utensils) was in the State Museum of the History of Religion. [3]
The GARF keeps the personal fund of G. A. Plananson. [four]
Sources
- Lopukhin V. B. Notes of the former director of the department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. - SPb. , 2008.
- Medieval sculpture of Siam (Thailand) in the Hermitage
Notes
- ↑ Composition of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society on August 1, 1904. SPb, 1904
- ↑ Chirkin S.V. Twenty years of service in the East. Notes of the tsarist diplomat. Russian Way, 2006.S. 203.
- ↑ V.N. Mazurina. About the Indian collection of GMIR.
- ↑ Foundations of personal origin