Baddeley, John Frederick

John Baddeley was born in July 1854 in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire in the UK. Educated at Wellington College in Krautorn , Berkshire . He was a friend of the family of the Russian ambassador to England, Count P. A. Shuvalov . At the invitation of the latter in 1879, Baddeley first came to Russia. There he mastered the Russian language quite well, and for ten years held a significant post as special correspondent for the London Evening Standard newspaper in St. Petersburg. Knowledge of the Russian language and access to information sources in higher Russian circles were especially successfully used in Baddeli's professional activities. According to the secretary of the London Library, , Baddeley, like no other British in Russia, was able to improve the reputation of the newspaper, and it was often useful for the English Embassy in St. Petersburg.

During a trip in 1888, Tsar Alexander III to the Caucasus , Baddeley was sent there to cover the visit by the editors of the London Evening Standard. Staying in the Caucasus, he was interested in this region, which served as the basis for writing in 1908 the book “The Russian conquest of the Caucasus” ( “Conquest of the Caucasus by Russians” ), which became his first and most important historical work. After the Caucasus, Baddeli continued to travel around Siberia and the Far East . Conducted photography. In addition to history, Baddeli was engaged in anthropological and archaeological research of uncharted areas, in particular on the Amur River and in Manchuria , and also studied the customs and customs of local residents. Based on historical records and documents on relations between Russia, Mongolia and China, he made historical maps of those times. A monumental work in this direction was the writing of the two-volume “Russia, Mongolia, China ...” in 1919 , for which John Baddeley was awarded the Victoria Medal of the Royal Geographical Society for outstanding services in geographic research.

After retiring, Baddeley lived for some time in London, and then moved to his homeland in Oxford. In the 1930s, he wrote reports of his early ethnographic observations during his trip to the Caucasus. Subsequently, these reports were included in the two-volume The Rugged Flanks of the Caucasus , which was published in 1940 after the death of Baddeley , who died that same year. A photo album with the works of John Baddeley and his personal documents, notes and letters are in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford University .

• The Russian conquest of the Caucasus . - L. , N. Y. , Bombay, Calcutta: Longmans , Green and co., 1908. - ISBN 1-57898-576-5 .
• Russia, Mongolia, China ... // In 2 Vol. (eng.) . - L .: Macmillan and Co., 1919. - ISBN 1-57898-641-9 .
• Russia in the 'eighties,' sport and politics . - L. , N. Y. , Bombay, Calcutta, Madras: Longmans, Green and co., 1921. - ISBN 1-11246-905-2 .
• The Rugged Flanks of the Caucasus // In 2 Vol. (eng.) . - L .: Oxford University Press , 1940. - ISBN 0-70071-625-4 .

Translated into Russian:

• Baddeley JF Conquest of the Caucasus by Russians. 1720-1860 = The Russian conquest of the Caucasus (English) / Per. from English L.A. Kalashnikova. - M. [ L. ]: Centerpolygraph ( Longmans , [1908]), 2011. - 351 [518] p. - ISBN 978-5-227-02749-8 .