Vygornitsky, Alexander Ivanovich

Alexander Ivanovich Vygornitsky ( June 1, 1868 - 1941 ) - Russian military orientalist and teacher, major general.

Content

1 Biography
2 Literature
3 notes
4 References

Biography

He studied at the Simbirsk cadet corps and the 2nd military Konstantinovsky school . After the last he served in the 76th Kuban Infantry Regiment , in 1891 he received the rank of lieutenant.

In 1892-1895 he studied at the officer courses in Oriental languages at the training department of the Asian Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs . After that, in February 1896 he was sent to India with the aim of improving the practical knowledge of the Urdu language, where he stayed for a year and a half ^[1] . While in India, he submitted a note to the General Staff on the need to establish a Russian consulate there, which had a significant impact on a positive solution to this issue ^[2] ^[3] . Vygornitsky created the “Grammar of the Hindustani or Urdu language, compiled from the English sources Plyata and Forbess,” published in St. Petersburg in 1897.

In 1897, he was appointed a teacher at two-year Hindustani (Urdu) courses opened in Tashkent for officers of the Turkestan military district (similar courses were also instituted in Ashgabat, the center of the Trans-Caspian region). In 1898 he was promoted to headquarters captain. Then in Tashkent was published the second linguistic work of Vygornitsky: "A manual for learning the language of the Hindustani (Urdu) and the military dictionary of Russian-Hindustani" ^[4] . In 1899, having released the first set of students, he again went to India - now as a freelance translator of the consulate general in Bombay, after which the courses in Tashkent and Ashgabat were combined ^[5] . He went into the reserve (1901-1904), determined from the reserve in the 1st Turkestan page b-n, etc. Commissioner of the Tashkent Land and Tax Commission (1907), lieutenant colonel (1908), Commissioner of the Tashkent Land and Tax Commission, colonel (1912). ^[6]

Participated in the First World War , commander of the 494th infantry. Vereisk regiment, major general (from 12.10.1917). After the revolution he emigrated, lived and died in Iran.

Awards: Order of St. Stanislav 3rd Art. (1901); St. Anne 3rd Art. (1911); St. Vladimir 4th art. (VP 09/22/1915); St. Vladimir 3rd art. with swords (VP 20.01.1916); St. Stanislav 2nd art. (approved by VP 13.12.1916).

Literature

No. 137—141 June 21, 1895 - 1897. Documents on the trip to India of Lieutenant A. I. Vygornitsky to study the Hindustani language // Russian-Indian Relations in the 19th Century. Collection of archival documents and materials. - M .: Publishing company "Oriental literature" RAS, 1997.
Baskhanov M.K. History of the study of oriental languages in the Russian imperial army. St. Petersburg: Nestor-Istoriya, 2018 .-- 632 S. - ISBN 978-5-4469-1403-6 .

Notes

↑ V. N. Shkunov, L. R. Radchenko. Development of Russian-Indian scientific, enlightening and educational ties at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. // Bulletin of the Samara Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2014
↑ A. M. Kadakin 100 years of the Russian consulate in Mumbai, which was formerly called Bombay: From the History of Diplomatic Relations between Russia and India // International Affairs. - 2001. - P.87-94. - No. 1
↑ The long history of close ties // S. Saenko, “Indian Herald”, January 2017 (unopened) (unavailable link) . Date of treatment November 21, 2017. Archived December 1, 2017.
↑ V. M. Beskrovny From the History of the Study of Living Indian Languages in Russia in the 19th Century // Vestnik Leningra. University ". Series of History, Language and Literature, 1957, No. 8, no. 2, p. 37-50
↑ Zagorodnikova T. N. "... With my knowledge of the life of Muslims and knowledge of local dialects, I could be useful." Russian military orientalist I. D. Jagello and the study of New Indian languages in Russia // Military History Journal. 2002. No. 7. S. 46-51
↑ Baskhanov M.K. Russian military orientalists before 1917 = Russian military orientologists before 1917: biobibliogr. dictionary. - Moscow: East. lit., 2005 (SPT Type. Science), 2005.- S. 55. - ISBN 5-02-018435-7 .

Links

Biography on the website of the Russian Army in the Great War

[1] V. N. Shkunov, L. R. Radchenko. Development of Russian-Indian scientific, enlightening and educational ties at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. // Bulletin of the Samara Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2014

[2] A. M. Kadakin 100 years of the Russian consulate in Mumbai, which was formerly called Bombay: From the History of Diplomatic Relations between Russia and India // International Affairs. - 2001. - P.87-94. - No. 1

[3] The long history of close ties // S. Saenko, “Indian Herald”, January 2017 (unopened) (unavailable link) . Date of treatment November 21, 2017. Archived December 1, 2017.

[4] V. M. Beskrovny From the History of the Study of Living Indian Languages in Russia in the 19th Century // Vestnik Leningra. University ". Series of History, Language and Literature, 1957, No. 8, no. 2, p. 37-50

[5] Zagorodnikova T. N. "... With my knowledge of the life of Muslims and knowledge of local dialects, I could be useful." Russian military orientalist I. D. Jagello and the study of New Indian languages in Russia // Military History Journal. 2002. No. 7. S. 46-51

[6] Baskhanov M.K. Russian military orientalists before 1917 = Russian military orientologists before 1917: biobibliogr. dictionary. - Moscow: East. lit., 2005 (SPT Type. Science), 2005.- S. 55. - ISBN 5-02-018435-7 .