Basil Nikitin (1 January 1885 – 7 June 1960) was a Russian orientalist and diplomat.
Basil Nikitin was born in Sosnowiec, a town in Poland, then part of the Russian Empire. Nikitin's family had several Orientalists. Therefore, he developed an interest in the subject as a boy. He took trips to the Black Sea region and the Caucasus. After graduation from high school in 1904, Nikitin traveled to Russia, where he enrolled at the Lazarev Institute to learn Persian and Turkish. In 1908, Nikitin applied for a job at the Foreign Ministry in Saint Petersburg. He was hired, and his first posting was to the Russian Embassy in Afghanistan. He served at the embassy for a year, returning to Paris and marrying.[1]
In 1911, Nikitin once again found himself in a Russian Embassy. This time it was as Vice-Consul in Rasht, Gilan. Here he studied the agrarian question noting that landlords collected both state taxes and exacted a rent whose magnitude varied according to their greed. This situation had given rise to many peasants abandoning their villages.[2]
In 1915, he was promoted to consul and based in Urmia. It was here that he arranged a meeting with Shimun XIX Benyamin, the Assyrian Patriarch who had agreed for Assyrian troops to join the Imperial Russian Army. Nikitin promised that after the First World War the Assyrians would be offered national community land in Russia. However, the matter was not pursued as the 1917 Revolution prevented further meaningful discussions.[2] He served as ambassador for three years. During this term, Nikitin saw the outbreak of the First World War and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. When the October Revolution broke out and Zarens was ousted, Nikitin decided against returning to Russia, and emigrated instead to France. After settling in France, he retired from politics and began writing books. He published several books, writing mostly about the Kurds and other people of the Middle East.[1]
The time spend in the Middle East had endowed Nikitin with a deep insight into the Kurdish problem. He was, therefore, in a unique position to identify and understand the awakening of Kurdish nationalism. He closely studied the development of the Kurdish nationalism, classifying it in three phases. The first phase, which was marked by rioting, he referred to as the unorganized and directionless phase. The second phase, according to Nikitin, was the one that showed the first signs of organization. This phase was between 1880 and 1918. It was also the period during which the first Kurdish political parties and associations came into being. The third phase was the phase when the Kurds appeared as a political force on the international political scene, as demonstrated by historic agreements like the Treaty of Sèvres in 1920.[1]
^ abc"Basil Nikitin". Retrieved 8 June 2016.
^ abCosroe Chaqueri (1994), The Soviet Socialist Republic of Iran, 1920-21: Birth of the Trauma, University of Pittsburgh Press, OCLC 831417921, OL 25431986M
BasilNikitin (1 January 1885 – 7 June 1960) was a Russian orientalist and diplomat. BasilNikitin was born in Sosnowiec, a town in Poland, then part of...
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was the University of St. Petersburg. Żaba and other diplomats like BasilNikitin collected Kurdish manuscripts and recorded oral histories. Among other...
by Sergey Nikitin and poetry lyrics by Boris Pasternak. The film was released by Mosfilm studios. Old Style and New Style dates St. Basil (Macedonian:...
Göktürk, Soysal & Türeli 2010, p. 146 Göktürk, Soysal & Türeli 2010, p. 165 Nikitin, Nikolaj (6 March 2012). "Golden Age for Turkish Cinema". Credit-Suisse...
1830–1930. Routledge, 10 October 2018. ISBN 1351805223, 9781351805223. p. 267. Nikitin, Vasiliĭ Petrovich (1956). Les Kurdes: étude sociologique et historique...
(Marumakkathayam). Abdur Razzak (1442–43), Niccolò de' Conti (1445), Afanasy Nikitin (1468–74), Ludovico di Varthema (1503–1508), and Duarte Barbosa witnessed...
10. HEPHTHALITES IN BACTRIA Alram 2008, coin type 47 and 48. Chegini & Nikitin 1996, pp. 38ff Rezakhani 2017, pp. 125–156. Zeimal 1996, p. 130. Zeimal...
the wooden Pogodinsky Cottage [ru] in Devichye Pole, Moscow, by Nikolai Nikitin (1856). The Emancipation reform of 1861 and subsequent reforms of Alexander...
(soloist V. Nikitin). B1: Ich Freue Mich, Ihnen Mein Lied Zu Singen (soloist V. Nikitin): not a song, but a spoken introduction by Nikitin to his performance...
Zotov (by Nikolai Nevrev, 1903) Peter I by the favorite court painter Ivan Nikitin The city will be laid here by ru:Nikolay Dobrovolsky (1880), Central Naval...
(portrait by Viktor Vasnetsov, 1926) Gury Nikitin (1620/25–1691) fresco and icon-painter, illustrator Ivan Nikitin (1690–1742) painter, portraitist Aleksandr...
of Papua New Guinea and Pacific islands, prominent anti-racist Afanasy Nikitin, one of the first Europeans to travel and to document his visit to India...
priest, having prepared a tray with the cross placed on a bed of fresh basil leaves or flowers, covered with an aër (liturgical veil), places it on the...
Nevelskoy] (in Russian). People.ru. Retrieved 2011-12-17. Dr. Jyotsna Kamat. "Nikitin – The first Russian traveler to India". Kamat's Potpourri. Retrieved 2011-12-17...
96–98 Basil 1983, p. 30 Wade 2017, pp. 82–84 Basil 1983, p. 61 Roobol 1976, p. 121 Figes 1996, p. 387 Roobol 1976, p. 124 Roobol 1976, p. 129 Basil 1983...
María Teresa Miras Portugal, 73, Spanish biochemist, cancer. Vladilen Nikitin, 84, Russian politician, Soviet minister of agriculture (1985) and first...
India and Southeast Asia and, later in 1466–1472, Russian merchant Afanasy Nikitin of Tver travelled to India, which he described in his book A Journey Beyond...
ruling family Mana Vikrama the Great – the Russian merchant of Tver Afanasy Nikitin (1468–1474) visited Kozhikode during his reign Mana Vikrama III – the expulsion...
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