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Tumanskiy, Aleksandr Grigor’evich (Russian: Туманский, Александр Григорьевич) (1861–1920) – Russian orientalist, military interpreter, Major General of Imperial Russian Army, belonging to an ancient aristocratic family, which had originated from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. == Biography == Aleksandr Grigor’evichTumanskiy (Toumanskiy) was born on 23 September 1861. From 1888–1891 Tumanskiy, then an officer in the Imperial Russian Army, received his Oriental education at the Officer’s Courses of Oriental Languages organized by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He studied Arabic, Turkish and Persian language; at all he spoke eleven languages. From 1891–1895 Tumanskiy was stationed in Central Asia. In 1894 he was responsible for establishing communications with Persia. Between 1900 and 1905 he served as the Russian vice consul in Van, Turkey. From 1908 and 1909 years he was ordered to Persia again to resume his diplomatic duties. In 1911 he was appointed the head of the officers’ Oriental language preparatory school in Tiflis (Tbilisi), which functioned under the Headquarters of the Caucasian Military Command. In March 1917, Tumanskiy retired from the military service at the rank of General-Major.〔М.К. Басханов, "Русские военные востоковеды до 1917 года: библиографический словарь", Москва, 2005, ISBN 5-02-018435-7 стр. 242 - 243.〕 He left Russia after the October Revolution in 1917 and died in Constantinople (Istanbul) on 1 December 1920.〔‘Худуд аль-алам‘: рукописи Туманского , введение и содержание В.В. Бартольда, Ленинград, 1930 (факсимиле. издание).〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alexander Tumansky」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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