Jebtsundamba Khutuktu
Little is known about Badamdorj's early life, however, from 1900 to 1911 served as an administrator, or "Erdene Shanzav" of the Bogd Gegeen's estates. He was a close confidant, advisor, and tutor to the Khalkha spiritual leader, the Jebtsundamba Khutuktu, (later to become the Bogd Khan) who, in 1895 dispatched him to St. Petersburg as the first Mongolian envoy to meet with the newly enthroned Czar Nicholas II and probe Russian willingness to support Mongolian aspirations for independence from Manchu rule. The Russians responded positively and suggested the Mongolians work secretly with Russia's envoy in Niislel Hüree.