Agvan Dorzhiev
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Agvan Lobsan Dorzhiev was a Russian-born monk of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism, sometimes referred by his scholarly title as Tsenyi Khempo. He was popularly known as the Sokpo Tsеnshab Ngawang
Tsenyi Khempo, Tibetan Buddhist monk, c. 1900
Agvan Dorzhiev coming out of the Great Palace in Peterhof after his audience with the Tsar, June 23, 1901 (Andrey Terentiev Collection)
Agvan Dorjiev
Great Game
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The Great Game was a rivalry between the 19th-century British and Russian empires over influence in Central Asia, primarily in Afghanistan, Persia, and Tibet. The two colonial empires used military in
Agvan Dorzhiev
…Among Tibetans he earned a legendary status, while raising the British Empire's significant anxiety of Russian presence in Tibet at the final stage of the Great Game. He is also remembered for building the Buddhist temple of Saint Petersburg in 1909 and signing the Tibet-Mongolia Treaty in 1913. He left home in 1873…
Silk and spice festival in modern-day Bukhara, Uzbekistan
Russians constructing the Trans-Caspian Railway, from the Black Sea across Merv to Herat and India, drawing by Charles Thomas Marvin (1854–1890)
General Mikhaïl Annenkov in Paris, 1891, supervisor of Russo-Indian railway operation
Siberian Cossack c. 1890s