A Buriat. With sponsorship from the Russian Geographic Society he headed an expedition to Tibet which lasted from 1899 through 1902. His travel account was only published in 1919. Anya Bernstein, Pilgrims, Fieldworkers & Secret Agents: Buryat Buddhologists and Eurasian Imaginary. A paper placed on the internet in PDF format.
Alexander Andreyev, Russian Buddhist in Tibet from the End of the Nineteenth Century-1930, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, series 3, vol. 11, no. 3 (2001), pp. 349-362.
