The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-26
NOTED RUSSIAN DEAD
Nicolai Yadrlntsef the His
torian's Sudden End in
Siberia.
BIZ cnble to the United Pres.

ST. PETERSBURG, July 20, 1s94.-Priyate
letters from Siberia announce the sudden
death at Barnaul of the well known Russian
author and publicist Nikolai NJ Yadrintsef,
who was for many years owner and editor
of the Eastern ReUieu, and who was regarded
as one of the best informed men in the world
with regard to the history, archaeology and
anthropology Of Asiatic Russia.
The following sketch of Mr. Yadrntsef is
furished by George Kennan. the well known
Siberian traveller and lecturer:-
Mr.. Yadrintsef was born in Siberia IN
1872 and his whole life was devoted to the
service of his native country. While still a
young man he was accused of participation
in so-called conspiracy to separate Siberia
from European Russia and to establish
in the former country as independent popu-
lar government. As a result OF this political
activity, both he and the eminent Russian
employer, Fotanin, were arrested and exlled
to Archangel Some years later Yadrintsef
was permitted to return to Siberia.
where his energy and talent soon OBJ
tanned official recognition in the form
of an appointment to place on the
staff of Governor-G General Kaznakof When
the latter left Siberia Yadrintsef went to st.
Petersburg and began his literary career by
WrlUlQg a series OIL dIGlCI6o upon tolpCii1h
subjects for the Russian magazine Dtefto.
Between 1865 and 1875 he travelled exten-
sively in Siberia and published the
results of his explorations and in
yestigations in the st. Petersburg
Journal the Week, and in various Siberian
newspapers. About this time he published
also a very careful and thorough sociological
study of Russian convict life in the shape of
a volume, entitled sThe Russian Commune
in Prison and in Exile" In 1882 Mr.. Yad-
rintsef founded the Eastern ReCte,c,
weekly newspaper, which was
published at first in st. Peterburgh and
afterward in Irkutsk, and which was de-
voted to the interests of Asiatic Russia IN
general, and Siberia in particular. Although
greatly impeded and harassed by vexat-
Gus censorship this periodical under Mr..
Yadrintsef's management became popular
and influential, and was the exponent of ell
that was best and highest in Siberia life
and Siberian administration. In 1882
Mr. YadrinUsef wrote and published an I'M
portant and valuable work entitled Isl
beria as a Colony" which not only attract
ed wide attention in Russia, but was trans
lated into German and thus became known
to the scholars and geographers of Western
Eurode Between 1882 ana 1882 Mr.. ad-
rintsef published large number OF nlaga-
zine articles pamphlets and monographs upon
Siberian subjects, among which were The
BeRln0lnG OF Oeu6ubdTy L4lles u toGuuJ III
Primitive Culture': The Black Tatars of
the Altai, . ''The Progressive Dessication of
the Aralo-C Caspian Basin" and Culture and
Industrial State of Siberia" In 1891 and
1892 Mr.. Yadrintsef made two long and
difficult explorations in Mongolia, in the
course of which he discovered south OF
Irkutsk the ruins of the ancient and extern
sive capital OF the latarkhans and made
archaeological collections of the highest in
terest and value.
In 1898 he made his first visit to the United
States, but after spending a fortnight at the
Exposition in Chicago he was forced by ill
health to return to Russia. He died sud
denly from heart disease at the little town
town of Barnaul, in the Altai, on the 18th OF
June. 1894. aged fifty-three. He will long be
remembered in Russia, and particularly
in Asiatic Russia, as deep
and sincere lover of his country,
a careful and competent scientific ingesti-
gator, an opponent of the exile system and
an indefatigable friend and promoter of uni
versal education. governmental reform, hon
esty in public and private life and every
GOOD cause.