02785nkm a22003973i 4500 22136963 20250607110329.3 cr ||||||||||| 210708s1874 xx nnn |o inund 22136963 0 ibc orignew u ncip 20 y-gencatlg LCAP batch update 2025-06-02-04:00: LCAPM-999 2021669705 (WDL)02123 DLC eng DLC 726 951 The Temple of Heaven Complex (Tian Tan). Beijing, 1874. [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1874. 1 online resource. still image sti rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Title devised, in English, by Library staff. Original resource extent: 1 photo : albumen paper, black and white ; 19.6 x 26.8 centimeters. In 1874-75, the Russian government sent a research and trading mission to China to seek out new overland routes to the Chinese market, report on prospects for increased commerce and locations for consulates and factories, and gather information about the Dungan Revolt then raging in parts of western China. Led by Lieutenant Colonel Iulian A. Sosnovskii of the army General Staff, the nine-man mission included a topographer, Captain Matusovskii; a scientific officer, Dr. Pavel Iakovlevich Piasetskii; Chinese and Russian interpreters; three non-commissioned Cossack soldiers; and the mission photographer, Adolf Erazmovich Boiarskii. The mission proceeded from Saint Petersburg to Shanghai via Ulan Bator (Mongolia), Beijing, and Tianjin, and then followed a route along the Yangtze River, along the Great Silk Road through the Hami oasis, to Lake Zaysan, back to Russia. Boiarskii took some 200 photographs, which constitute a unique resource for the study of China in this period. Most of the photographs are included in this album, which later became part of the Thereza Christina Maria Collection assembled by Emperor Pedro II of Brazil and given by him to the National Library of Brazil. Original resource at: National Library of Brazil. Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions. 1874 Buddhist temples Exterior walls Gates Memory of the World Tian Tan Boiarskii, Adolf-Nikolay Erazmovich Photographer. China Beijing Beijing Russian Scientific-Commercial Expedition to China, 1874-75 gdcwdl wdl_02123 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.wdl/wdl.2123 wdl/wdlpartner/wdlbrazil s-Online Electronic Resource