Nikolai Petrovich Ostroumov (Russian: Николай Петрович Остроумов; 1846–1930) was an imperial Russian orientalist, ethnographer and educationalist in Turkestan.
Nikolai Ostroumov | |
|---|---|
| Николай Остроумов | |
| Born | 15 November 1846 |
| Died | 17 November 1930 (aged 84) |
He studied under Nikolai Il'minskii at the Kazan Theological Seminary, where he studied Arabic and Turkic languages as well as Islam.[1]
He was editor of Turkistan Wilayatining Gazeti from 1883 to 1917.[1]
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- ^ a b Islam in the Russian Federation and the Post Soviet Republics: a Historical perspective by Spyros Plakoudas, p 31