John Frederick Baddeley (July 1854 – 16 February 1940) was a British traveller, writer and journalist, best known by his works on

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and the

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region. He was a

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, 1902–1940. He was educated at

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. After visiting Russia for seven months in 1879, Baddeley became the

St. Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

correspondent for the London Standard, and began a lifelong relationship with that country, travelling widely and writing several important books on its history. In the summer of 1900 he made his first of several journeys to

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and the

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. His most outstanding work was ''Russia, Mongolia, China; being some record of the relations between them from the beginning of the XVIIth century to the death of the Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, A.D. 1602–1676; rendered mainly in the form of narratives dictated or written by the envoys sent by the Russian tsars, or their voevodas in Siberia, to the Kalmuk and Mongol khans & princes, and to the emperors of China; with introductions, historical and geographical; also a series of maps showing the progress of geographical knowledge in regard to northern Asia during the XVIth, XVIIth & early XVIIIth centuries. The texts taken more especially from manuscripts in the Moscow Foreign Office Archives; the whole by John F. Baddeley''; a monumental work, published in 1919 in two volumes as a

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of only 250 copies, with an elaborate frontispiece ("the book epitomised in a series of pictures", said Baddeley) drawn by

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and engraved by

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. It bore a dedication ''To my friend of many years The Right Honourable Sir William Mather'', stating that the production of the book was ''due to his generosity alone''. It earned Baddeley the Victoria Medal of the Royal Geographical Society, and has been later republished as facsimile. Other Baddeley's works are ''The Russian Conquest of the Caucasus'' (1908), ''Russia in the 'eighties', sport and politics'' (1921) and ''The rugged flanks of Caucasus'' (1940); this posthumous work is dedicated to the

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, Natural history, and

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of the Caucasus, including the oil fields of Baku and some pages on

Nadir Shah Nader Shah Afshar ( fa, نادر شاه افشار; also known as ''Nader Qoli Beyg'' or ''Tahmāsp Qoli Khan'' ) (August 1688 – 19 June 1747) was the founder of the Afsharid dynasty of Iran and one of the most powerful rulers in Iranian ...

Bibliography

* Baddeley, John F. ''The Russian conquest of the Caucasus 1720—1860''. London, New York, Bombay, Calcutta: Longmans, Green and Co., 1908. Reprinted Mansfield Centre, Conn.: Martino Pub., 2006. . * Baddeley, John F. ''Russia, Mongolia, China ...''. London: Macmillan and Company, 1919. Reprinted Mansfield Centre, Conn.: Martino Pub., 2006. .

External links

''The Russian Conquest of the Caucasus'' onlineAcross the Caucasus: Photographs and Manuscripts from the John F. Baddeley Collection
{{DEFAULTSORT:Baddeley, John Frederick 1854 births 1940 deaths English male journalists English male non-fiction writers Explorers of the Caucasus Victoria Medal recipients

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