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Unique photos taken by British lieutenant Gerald Charles Beansteed 100 years ago during his trip to Mongolia are displayed in the National Museum of Mongolia. The first part of travel notes written by the younger lieutenant has been translated and published recently. This work also became generally available at the exhibition held on 25-30 of June.
The exhibition entitled “British traveler’s tour to Mongolia” with an interesting displays and photos featuring life and welfare of Mongolians 100 years ago was organized by the Mongolian Academy of Science in collaboration with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Embassy of the United Kingdom of the Great Britain and Northern Ireland and National Museum of Mongolia.
Beanstead’s photos wre kept in the British Geographic Society. He was very interested in Mongolia, when he studied in Russia in 1911. During his traveling through Mongolia in 1912 and 1913 the younger lieutenant wrote a lot of attractive notes portraying the religious ritual, lifs of dignitaries and Buddhist lamas, situation of women, organization of monasteries, as well as nature and geography of the country and enriched them with many photos. Undoubtedly, these exhibits will make much more contribution to the studies of modern Mongolian history, highlighted Mongolia’s historians.
Beanstead wrote in his notes “I wish to write a book about this insufficient known country and its people”. Unfortunately, he was killed in 1915 in Belgium at his 30, thus his willing to write a book about Mongolia was interrupted. However, compilation of his interesting travel notes left their indelible traces in the history of Mongolia and some of them came already to the hand of the readers.

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