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Tekst-kentavr o sibirskikh samoedakh = The text-centaur on Siberian Samoyeds / Andrei Pliguzov.

By: Pliguzov, Andrei Ivanovich
Contributor(s): Herberstein, Sigismund, Freiherr von
Language: Russian Publisher: Moskva; Newtonville : "Arkheograficheskii TSentr", 1993.Description: ii, 157p. ; 20cm.ISBN: 5861690049Other title: The text-centaur on Siberian Samoyeds
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In Russian, with one chapter in English; English summary. - "The book analyzes the first written information on Siberia, ie Iugorian itinerary, reported by Sigismund von Herberstein, who had visited Muscovy in 1517 and 1526, and the Permian itinerary compiled at the end of the 15th century ... To the same early period belongs the story "On unknown people in the eastern land", which was copied in fourteen medieval manuscripts dated from the end of the 15th century till the 18th century ... ", English summary, p. 157. - Richard Johnson reported the story On unknown people in Hakluyt, Richard: The principal navigations, voiages and discoveries of the English nation, London 1589, p. 389. - Half title: IUgorskii Aktsionernyi Bank, Oriental Research Partners.

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