Melissa Chakars is a professor of History at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, USA. She specializes in Eurasian history with a focus on the Mongolian and Siberian peoples of Russia. She has published numerous articles, an edited volume, and the monograph The Socialist Way of Life in Siberia: Transformation in Buryatia in English with Central European Press (2014) and in Russian with Academic Studies Press (2022).Nikolay Tsyrempilov is an associate professor of History at Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan and a historian of Inner Asia, specializing in the religious and political history of the Russian and Qing empires. He is the author of numerous works, including Under the Shadow of White Tara: Buriat Buddhists in Imperial Russia (Brill 2021). His research explores Buddhism, empire, and identity among Buryat, Mongolian, and Tibetan communities in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

• Introduction. I. Scholars, Explorers, and Literati 1. Orientologists, Countrymen, and Lamas: The Many Lives of Gombozhab Tsybikov’s Tibetan Photographs 2. Soldier, Explorer, Merchant, Spy?: The Lifeworlds of Tsogto Badmazhapov and the Challenges of Knowledge Production in the Imperial Situation 3. Buryat Identity, Buddhism, and Cultural Pan-Mongolism in Agvan Dorzhiev’s New-Script Buryat Writings 4. Skillful Means, Romantic Visions: Petr Dambinov Maps and Photographs II. Political Activists 5. Buryat Deputies and the Imperial Transformations of 1905–1918: Bato-Dalai Ochirov, Mikhail Bogdanov, and Bayarto Vampilon 6. Mikhail Bogdanov among the Khakas of Southern Siberia 7. Buryat Intellectuals and a “New Mongolia”: Representatives of the Mongolian Government in Germany from 1925 to 1930 8. Elbek-Dorji Rinchino and the Buryat-Mongolian National Revolutionary Project 9. Unrooted, But Grounded: Trajectories of the Indigenous Cosmopolitanism of Maria Sakhyanova

Melissa Chakars is a professor of History at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, USA. She specializes in Eurasian history with a focus on the Mongolian and Siberian peoples of Russia. She has published numerous articles, an edited volume, and the monograph The Socialist Way of Life in Siberia: Transformation in Buryatia in English with Central European Press (2014) and in Russian with Academic Studies Press (2022).Nikolay Tsyrempilov is an associate professor of History at Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan and a historian of Inner Asia, specializing in the religious and political history of the Russian and Qing empires. He is the author of numerous works, including Under the Shadow of White Tara: Buriat Buddhists in Imperial Russia (Brill 2021). His research explores Buddhism, empire, and identity among Buryat, Mongolian, and Tibetan communities in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

• Introduction. I. Scholars, Explorers, and Literati 1. Orientologists, Countrymen, and Lamas: The Many Lives of Gombozhab Tsybikov’s Tibetan Photographs 2. Soldier, Explorer, Merchant, Spy?: The Lifeworlds of Tsogto Badmazhapov and the Challenges of Knowledge Production in the Imperial Situation 3. Buryat Identity, Buddhism, and Cultural Pan-Mongolism in Agvan Dorzhiev’s New-Script Buryat Writings 4. Skillful Means, Romantic Visions: Petr Dambinov Maps and Photographs II. Political Activists 5. Buryat Deputies and the Imperial Transformations of 1905–1918: Bato-Dalai Ochirov, Mikhail Bogdanov, and Bayarto Vampilon 6. Mikhail Bogdanov among the Khakas of Southern Siberia 7. Buryat Intellectuals and a “New Mongolia”: Representatives of the Mongolian Government in Germany from 1925 to 1930 8. Elbek-Dorji Rinchino and the Buryat-Mongolian National Revolutionary Project 9. Unrooted, But Grounded: Trajectories of the Indigenous Cosmopolitanism of Maria Sakhyanova

Melissa Chakars is a professor of History at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, USA. She specializes in Eurasian history with a focus on the Mongolian and Siberian peoples of Russia. She has published numerous articles, an edited volume, and the monograph The Socialist Way of Life in Siberia: Transformation in Buryatia in English with Central European Press (2014) and in Russian with Academic Studies Press (2022).Nikolay Tsyrempilov is an associate professor of History at Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan and a historian of Inner Asia, specializing in the religious and political history of the Russian and Qing empires. He is the author of numerous works, including Under the Shadow of White Tara: Buriat Buddhists in Imperial Russia (Brill 2021). His research explores Buddhism, empire, and identity among Buryat, Mongolian, and Tibetan communities in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

• Introduction. I. Scholars, Explorers, and Literati 1. Orientologists, Countrymen, and Lamas: The Many Lives of Gombozhab Tsybikov’s Tibetan Photographs 2. Soldier, Explorer, Merchant, Spy?: The Lifeworlds of Tsogto Badmazhapov and the Challenges of Knowledge Production in the Imperial Situation 3. Buryat Identity, Buddhism, and Cultural Pan-Mongolism in Agvan Dorzhiev’s New-Script Buryat Writings 4. Skillful Means, Romantic Visions: Petr Dambinov Maps and Photographs II. Political Activists 5. Buryat Deputies and the Imperial Transformations of 1905–1918: Bato-Dalai Ochirov, Mikhail Bogdanov, and Bayarto Vampilon 6. Mikhail Bogdanov among the Khakas of Southern Siberia 7. Buryat Intellectuals and a “New Mongolia”: Representatives of the Mongolian Government in Germany from 1925 to 1930 8. Elbek-Dorji Rinchino and the Buryat-Mongolian National Revolutionary Project 9. Unrooted, But Grounded: Trajectories of the Indigenous Cosmopolitanism of Maria Sakhyanova