| Pierre Alexandrowitsch De Tchihatcheff |
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He was born at Gatchina , near St Petersburg . He entered the diplomatic service and was ( 1842 -44) attached to the embassy at Constantinople ; whence he visited Asia Minor , Syria and Egypt . In 1844 , he was charged with a scientific mission to the Altai Mountains . He died at Florence . His publications include: ''Voyage scientifique dans l'Altai oriental et les parties adjacentes de la frontiere de Chine'' (with atlas, 1845); ''Asie Mineure; description physique, statistique et archeologique de cette contree'' (4 vols. with 3 atlases, 1853-69); ''Le Bosphore et Constantinople'' (1864, another ed. 1877); ''Considerations geologiques sur les lies Oceaniques'' (1878); and ''Espagne, Algerie et Tunisia'' (1880). REFERENCES |
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