Nikolay Przhevalsky, Russian geographer and explorer (died 1888)

Nikolay Przhevalsky

Polish-Russian explorer (1839–1888)

Nikolay Mikhaylovich Przhevalsky was a Russian geographer and a renowned explorer of Central and East Asia. Although he never reached his ultimate goal, the city of Lhasa in Tibet, he still travelled through regions then unknown to Westerners, such as northern Tibet, Amdo and…