Materials for the BIography of Waldemar Jochelson

Compiled by Nikolai Vakhtin

This book is a collection of materials for a (future) biography of Waldemar Jochelson (1856-1937) collected and compiled from various sources, mostly Russian and US archives. Jochelson’s was a long and turbulent life: he was a revolutionary and a terrorist, a prisoner and an exile, an ethnographer and journalist; he was known under several names, he was married twice, but had no children; he lived in Russia and France, Germany and the United States. He took part in three famous ethnographic expeditions: the Sibiryakov expedition (1894-96), the Jesup expedition (1899-1901), and the Ryabushinsky expedition (1909-1911). He authored several ethnographic books on indigenous Siberian minorities: Yukaghirs and Evens, Koryaks and Yakuts; these books are now considered classical.

The book begins with an extensive introduction where many new archival sources are described and analyzed, allowing to considerably augment and refine details of Jochelson’s biography. The main section of the book presents a complete annotated list of Jochelson’s correspondence (around 350 letters, originally in three languages: Russian, German, and English). A preliminary chronology of Jochelson’s many travels and addresses follows, based on Jochelson’s letters that usually have dates and return addresses carefully indicated. The next section of the book presents an index of archival materials on Jochelson in several Russian and US archives, with exact references to specific collections and funds. The last two sections of the book provide a complete bibliography of Jochelson’s works (from his first article published in 1893 to posthumous editions of his books), and a separate list of research works about Jochelson. In the appendix, a shorter version of an earlier article is reprinted which describes the story of Jochelson’s failed return from the United States to the Soviet Russia in 1927.

Materials for the biography of Waldemar Jochelson, compiled by Nikolai Vakhtin
2024, Fürstenberg: Kulturstiftung Sibirien 
155 pp., 16 x 22,5 cm
ISBN: 978-3-942883-93-1
Euro 34; Hardcover

Владимир Ильич Иохельсон – материалы к биографии

Materials for the BIography of Waldemar Jochelson

Compiled by Nikolai Vakhtin

This book is a collection of materials for a (future) biography of Waldemar Jochelson (1856-1937) collected and compiled from various sources, mostly Russian and US archives. Jochelson’s was a long and turbulent life: he was a revolutionary and a terrorist, a prisoner and an exile, an ethnographer and journalist; he was known under several names, he was married twice, but had no children; he lived in Russia and France, Germany and the United States. He took part in three famous ethnographic expeditions: the Sibiryakov expedition (1894-96), the Jesup expedition (1899-1901), and the Ryabushinsky expedition (1909-1911). He authored several ethnographic books on indigenous Siberian minorities: Yukaghirs and Evens, Koryaks and Yakuts; these books are now considered classical.

The book begins with an extensive introduction where many new archival sources are described and analyzed, allowing to considerably augment and refine details of Jochelson’s biography. The main section of the book presents a complete annotated list of Jochelson’s correspondence (around 350 letters, originally in three languages: Russian, German, and English). A preliminary chronology of Jochelson’s many travels and addresses follows, based on Jochelson’s letters that usually have dates and return addresses carefully indicated. The next section of the book presents an index of archival materials on Jochelson in several Russian and US archives, with exact references to specific collections and funds. The last two sections of the book provide a complete bibliography of Jochelson’s works (from his first article published in 1893 to posthumous editions of his books), and a separate list of research works about Jochelson. In the appendix, a shorter version of an earlier article is reprinted which describes the story of Jochelson’s failed return from the United States to the Soviet Russia in 1927.

Materials for the biography of Waldemar Jochelson, compiled by Nikolai Vakhtin
2024, Fürstenberg: Kulturstiftung Sibirien 
155 pp., 16 x 22,5 cm
ISBN: 978-3-942883-93-1
Euro 34; Hardcover

Nikolai Vakhtin

Nikolai Vakhtin

Владимир Ильич Иохельсон – материалы к биографии

Николай Вахтин

Эта книга — сборник подготовительных материалов к биографии Владимира Ильича Иохельсона (он же Вениамин Иосельсон, он же Владимир Голдовский) — незаурядного человека с интереснейшей судьбой. Революционер-народоволец, арестант, ссыльный, знаменитый этнограф, участник трех крупнейших этнографическиx экспедиций начала ХХ в., автор классических описаний народов северо-востока Сибири, успевший за свою долгую жизнь пожить в десятке стран и скончавшийся в Нью-Йорке... В книге приводятся многочисленные ранее не публиковавшиеся материалы из архивов России и США, полная библиография трудов Иохельсона и список литературы о нем, а также редкие фотографии. Книга позволяет существенно уточнить некоторые обстоятельства жизни Иохельсона и может стать основой для его будущей биографии.

Владимир Ильич Иохельсон – материалы к биографии, Н. Вахтин (сост.)
2024, Fürstenberg: Kulturstiftung Sibirien 
155 pp., 16 x 22,5 cm
ISBN: 978-3-942883-93-1
Euro 34; Hardcover

Vakhtin, Nikolai