page_title: Dogsomyn Bodoo
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Dogsomyn Bodoo / Early life
caption_attribution_description: Consulate of the Russian Empire in Urgoo (modern day Ulaan Baatar)
context_page_description: Dogsomyn Bodoo was a prominent early 20th century Mongolian politician who was one of the founding members of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party. He was elected leader of the provisional revolutionary government and following the Outer Mongolian Revolution of 1921 became the country's first Prime Minister from July 1921 to January 1922. A power struggle led to his resignation on January 7, 1922. He was subsequently charged with treason for conspiring to overthrow the government, and was executed on August 31, 1922.
context_section_description: Bodoo was born in 1885 in Mandshir Hutagt in present-day Töv Province. He obtained his elementary education at the Manjusri Monastery and then studied at the Mongolian Language and Literature School in Khüree (present-day Ulan Bator). He later became a scribe at the Shaviyn Yaam (religious affairs office) and then a Mongolian Language teacher at the Russian-Mongolian School for Translators.  He was literate in Mongolian, Tibetan, Manchu and Chinese. He became the Khüree representative of the Harbin newspaper Mongolyn Sonin Bichig and, under the pseudonym Bold or Bo, correspondent and editor of Shine Tol' and Niislel Hüreeniy Sonin Bichig newspapers.
caption: The Russian Consulate in Niislel Hüree where Bodoo taught and headed the Consular Hill group
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