Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufman (Константин Петрович фон Кауфман)
1818–82
Russian military officer and adminstrator. Graduated from the Central Engineering College in 1839. Served thirteen years in the Caucasus, fighting rebels. During the Crimean War, negotiated the conditions for surrendering Kars to Russian troops with the British General W. Fenwick Williams. Governor-general of Vilna, 1865–6; of Turkestan, 1867–82. Sponsor of the Tashkent branch of the Society of Enthusiasts of Natural Science, Anthropology and Ethnography, set up in 1870.
Sources
Brower 1997, p. 124
Creese 2015, p. 71
GSE
Mackenzie 1967.
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Brower, Daniel R. 1997. Islam and ethnicity: Russian colonial policy in Turkestan. In Russia’s Orient: Imperial border lands and peoples, 1700–1917, edited by Daniel R. Brower and Edward J. Lazzerini. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.
Creese, Mary R. S. 2015. Ladies in the laboratory IV: Imperial Russia’s women in science, 1800–1900. A survey of their contributions to research. With contributions by Thomas M. Creese. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield.
GSE: Great Soviet encyclopedia. Edited by Jean Paradise et al. 31 vols. (Translation of the 3d edition of Bol’shaya Sovetskaya entsiklopediya (Большая советская энциклопедия), edited by A. M. Prokhorov.) New York: Macmillan. London: Collier Macmillan. 1973–83.
Mackenzie, David. 1967. Kaufman of Turkestan: an assessment of his administration 1867–1881. Slavic Review 26: 265–85.
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