Academic Mongolian studies in Russia

Abstract

The relevance of the problem under study is conditioned by the coverage of Russian Mongolian studies, including Buddhism study phenomenon formation and development during the late 18th - early 19th centuries. The article is aimed at the study of Mongolian and Buddhism study origins at the St. Petersburg Academy and Kazan Imperial University, the fate of orientalists, the main stages in the formation and the development of educational and scientific disciplines and trends devoted to the history and culture of Mongolian-speaking peoples. The leading methods of this problem study are the basic principles of modern historical science - historicism, problem-chronological, structural-functional, retrospective, anthropological method, etc. The main results of the article include a variety of materials devoted to the historical and scientific study of Russian Mongolian study formation and development, the evaluation of the scientific heritage concerning the founders of Mongolian studies at the Academy, the University of Kazan and other educational centers of Russia. The main materials of the article can be useful for further study of Russian and European Mongolian study history, the development and the reading of university courses on the history of the East, the history of Oriental studies in Russia and Europe.