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Mikhail Mikhailovich Berezovsky (1848 - 5 April 1912) was a Russian Empire ornithologist and ethnologist who explored central Asia and other region as part of Russian Empire expeditions. He made numerous collections of natural history and anthropological interest. A number of species described from his collections have been named after him.
Berezovsky was born in a family of nobility, he was educated at the 2nd St. Petersburg Gymnasium before joining the technical institute. Being associated with the circle of
Biography (in Russian)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Berezovsky, Mikhail Orientalists from the Russian Empire Archaeologists from the Russian Empire Explorers of Asia Explorers of Tibet 19th-century explorers from the Russian Empire 1912 deaths 1848 births
Mikhail Mikhailovich Berezovsky (1848 - 5 April 1912) was a Russian Empire ornithologist and ethnologist who explored central Asia and other region as part of Russian Empire expeditions. He made numerous collections of natural history and anthropological interest. A number of species described from his collections have been named after him.
Berezovsky was born in a family of nobility, he was educated at the 2nd St. Petersburg Gymnasium before joining the technical institute. Being associated with the circle of Sergey Nechayev
Sergey Gennadiyevich Nechayev (; – ) was a Russian anarcho-communist, part of the Russian nihilist movement, known for his single-minded pursuit of revolution by any means necessary, including revolutionary terror.
Nechayev fled Russia in 18 ...
led to his arrest in December 1871 but he was not prosecuted due to lack of evidence. He went to study natural sciences at St. Petersburg
Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city had a population of 5,601, ...
and then participated in expeditions with G.N. Potanin and V.L. Bianchi into parts of Mongolia (1876–77), Tibet and China (1884-86, 92–93), largely involved in natural history collections. He also documented his travels, sketching monuments, and photographing during expeditions. Along with Bianchi, he described the nightingale species '' Luscinia obscura'' in 1891. In 1895 he received the Przewalski award for his research in China. He also made collections of Buddhist literature in Sanskrit and other languages.
A number of taxa have been named after him including ''Ithaginis cruentus berezowskii, Anthus hodgsoni berezowskii, Cyanistes flavipectus berezowskii,'' '' Moschus berezovskii, Paeonia berezowskii, Pterostichus berezowskii ,'' and ''Anabaena berezowskii.''
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Berezovsky, Mikhail Orientalists from the Russian Empire Archaeologists from the Russian Empire Explorers of Asia Explorers of Tibet 19th-century explorers from the Russian Empire 1912 deaths 1848 births