Boguslavsky, Dmitry Nikolaevich

Dmitry Nikolaevich Boguslavsky
Dmitry Nikolaevich Boguslavsky
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Dmitry Nikolayevich Boguslavsky ( July 13, 1826 - January 11, 1893 , St. Petersburg ) - Russian military leader, translator , Koranologist , member of the Military Scientific Committee of the General Staff, Lieutenant General .

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Biography

Originally from the nobles of the Nizhny Novgorod province .

In 1846 he graduated from the Mikhailovsky Artillery School . As a volunteer at the Faculty of Oriental Languages, St. Petersburg University studied Arabic and Turkish .

In 1847 - 1861 he served in the army , in 1862 - 1870 he was a translator of the embassy in Constantinople , from 1870 he served in the Ministry of War, including a member of the Main Military Codification Committee, a member of the Military Scientific Committee of the General Staff. From 1867 - major general , from 1878 - lieutenant general .

He was the first bailiff at the captured imam Shamil , including accompanying him during his stay in Petersburg and at the beginning of his life in Kaluga .

In 1872, he was sent as a plenipotentiary to Chuguchak to negotiate with Chinese diplomats on the conditions for the transfer of the Ili Territory to China and the settlement of border issues.

He was a member of the examination commissions of Officers' Courses of Oriental Languages at the Asian Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs .

The author of the first translation of the Koran from Arabic into Russian ^[1] .

He was buried in St. Petersburg at the Volkov Orthodox Cemetery ^[2] .

Rewards

Order of St. Anne of the 3rd degree with a bow (1854)
Order of St. Stanislav 2nd degree (1857; imperial crown granted to this order in 1859)
Order of St. Anne of the 2nd degree with the imperial crown (1861)
Order of St. Vladimir 3rd degree (1863)
Order of St. Stanislav 1st degree (1870)
Order of St. Anne 1st degree (1873)
Order of St. Vladimir, 2nd degree (1876)
Order of the White Eagle (1883)
Insignia "For XL Years of Immaculate Service" (1889)

Foreign

Turkish Order of Medgidius 3rd degree (1864)
Persian Order of Leo and the Sun, 2nd degree (1865)
Turkish Order of Medgidius 2nd degree (1867)
Commander Cross of the Spanish Order of Isabella (1867)
Diamond-decorated snuffboxes from the Turkish Sultan (1868 and 1871)

Publications

The Qur'an (translated from Arabic). - M., 1995.
The Qur'an (translated from Arabic). - Istanbul, 2001; (many reprints).

Notes

↑ Gusterin P.V. Koran as an object of study. - Saarbrücken: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing . - 2014 .-- S. 35, 54-57. - ISBN 978-3-659-51259-9 .
↑ Petersburg necropolis. - T. I (A — D). - SPb., 1912. - S. 247

Literature

Smirnov N. A. Essays on the history of the study of Islam in the USSR. - M., 1954. - S. 72.
The history of Russian oriental studies from the middle of the XIX century until 1917. - M., 1997 .-- S. 161, 164.
Baskhanov M.K. Russian Military Orientalists: Biobibliographic Reference. - M., 2005. - S. 37-38.
Gusterin P. Russian-language Koranistics of the pre-Soviet period // Questions of history. - 2015. - No. 5. - S. 161.