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Matehina, Tatiana S., Kozintcev, Mark A. “An Ottoman Travel Permit to a ‘Gymnastics Instructor’: On the History of Alexander L. Lipovsky’s Journey through the Middle East in 1893”. Pis’mennye pamiatniki Vostoka, 2025, vol. 22, no. 4 (iss. 63), pp. 243–251 (in Russian). DOI: 10.55512/WMO679014.
The article investigates a travel permit given to a “gymnastics instructor” from St. Petersburg, Russia, and two sons of the Russian consul in Aleppo, whom the teacher accompanied to Odessa. The document is now kept at the Roerich Family Museum and Institute, where it was received as a gift in 2021. During the research, the authors have been able to trace the provenance of the travel permit and identify the persons mentioned in it. They are: Alexander L. Lipovsky (1867– 1942), a teacher at Karl May’s Gymnasium and Real School; Ivan and Vasily, the sons of the Russian consul in Aleppo Mikhail I. Yakimansky (d. 1897); the Ottoman governor of Aleppo Topal Osman Nurî Paşa (1840–1898). The source, together with some newly revealed archival materials, adds new data to the history of Lipovsky’s journey through the regions of the Ottoman Empire (Syria, Palestine) in the summer of 1893, which is—until recently—virtually unknown in historiography. PDF-files
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Consul Mikhail Yakimansky
Karl May Gymnasium
Ottoman travel permit
Russian Consulate in Aleppo
Russian travelers
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