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Letters of Khan Ayuka and Their Russian Translations: Revisiting Religious Terms [PDF]

Oriental Studies, 2023
Introduction. Religious vocabulary is a means to express a special view of the world, a special value system. Goals. The work aims to identify some specific patterns in the functioning of religionyms in seventeenth-eighteenth century Kalmyk official ...
Galina M. Yarmarkina
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Ayuka’s Title of Daichin Khan: Examining Tibetan-Language Sources [PDF]

Oriental Studies
Introduction. Data from Tibetan-language sources on Ayuka’s full title ― Daichin Khan Ayuka ― have never been introduced into scientific circulation, nor have those been subject to any essential analysis. Goals.
Bembya L. Mitruev
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Number in Official Kalmyk Texts, 17th–18th Centuries: Letters of Khan Ayuka and Their Russian Translations Analyzed [PDF]

Oriental Studies, 2022
Introduction. A number with peculiar symbolism is closely associated with the shaping of a certain linguistic worldview, and can articulate essentials of material and spiritual culture.
Galina M. Yarmarkina
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‘Only You, Our Subject, and Kalmyk Vassals of Yours Should Restrain Yourselves from Seeking Quarrels with Turkish Liegemen for the Sake of Peace’: A 1718 Letter Missive of Peter I of Russia to Khan Ayuka of the Kalmyks

Oriental Studies, 2023
Introduction. Recent historiographic studies show an increasing interest in the figure of Khan Ayuka and the whole of written heritage pertaining to seventeenth-eighteenth century Russian-Kalmyk relations.
Tepkeev Vladimir T., Kamandzhaev Narma A.   +1 more
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Letters of Khan Ayuka and Their Russian Translations: Anthroponyms Revisited. Preliminary Analysis

Монголоведение, 2020
Introduction. Anthroponyms contain valuable insights into the history of ethnic language and culture. The historical aspect of anthroponymy needs further research to reconstruct a wider panorama of the ethnos-specific anthroponymic system. Goals.
Galina M. Yarmarkina
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The 1722 Meeting of Emperor Peter the Great and Kalmyk Khan Ayuka on the Volga: Myths and Reality

Монголоведение, 2022
Introduction. The article deals with an understudied — though essential — episode in the history of the Kalmyk Khanate — the 1722 meeting of Peter I of Russia and Khan Ayuka of Kalmyks on the banks of the Volga.
Vladimir T. Tepkeev
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Military Terminology in Official Letters of Khan Ayuka and 1714 Russian Translations

Монголоведение, 2019
Introduction. Vocabulary in the ethnolinguistic aspect is considered as a verbal manifestation of the national culture. A special layer of the lexical system of the Kalmyk language, the formation of which is associated with the conditions of the socio-
Galina M. Yarmarkina
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The Techniques of Influencing the Addressee in the Business Letters of Khan Ayuka on “Todo Bichig” (“Clear Letter”) and their Reflection in the Synchronized Russian Translations of the 17th–18th Centuries. Part 1

Монголоведение
Introduction. Business letters addressed by the Kalmyk Khan (before 1690, Taisha) Ayuka (1642–1724), written in todo bichig (“clear letter”), are polythematic multifunctional texts that implement, among other things, informative and influencing functions.
Galina M. Yarmarkina
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‘The Messenger to Articulate an Oral Order of Mine’: A Comparative Study of Khan Ayuka’s Oirat-Language (Clear Script) Correspondence Texts and Their Synchronic Russian Translations

Oriental Studies
Introduction. The archived Oirat-language (in Clear Script) letters by Khan Ayuka are also available in their synchronic Russian translations. The seventeenth-eighteenth communication practices could involve oral messages to be transmitted to the ...
Galina M. Yarmarkina
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Three Seals of Khan Ayuka [PDF]

Бюллетень Калмыцкого научного центра Российской академии наук, 2021
Introduction. Recent years have witnessed some publications of letters signed by Kalmyk Khans, nobility, and containing samples of Kalmyk sphragistics. The seals are of great interest for Kalmyk historical political studies and have never been explored before.
Vladimir T. Tepkeev, Evgeny V. Bembeev
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