“Do not go to a shameful country until its fate is over.” How orientalist Nikolai Nevsky paid for his return from emigration
Nevsky family On February 18, 1892, Nikolai Nevsky was born, the scientist who was the first to decipher the writing of the Tanguts, whose state existed on the border of China and Mongolia and disappeared about 800 years ago. His discovery returned the voice of civilization destroyed by the troops of Genghis Khan, but Nevsky himself did not live to see recognition: in 1937 he was shot in Leningrad. End of 1937. An overcrowded cell in the Leningrad DPZ of the NKVD.
