On June 17, 2011, Ksenia Gerasimova, Doctor of Historical Sciences, the oldest employee of the Institute of Mongolian Studies, Buddhology and Tibetology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, died at the age of 93. She was a scientist of great scientific talent, a versatile talented and bright personality. K. M. Gerasimova graduated from two higher educational institutions in Leningrad: in 1942 from the Museum Faculty of the N. K. Krupskaya Library Institute and in 1947 with honors from the Mongolian Department of the Eastern Faculty of Leningrad State University. She studied Mongolian and Tibetan languages, Buddhism, Buddhist art, and sources on the history of Buddhism in Old Mongolian. The years of postgraduate study at the Faculty of Oriental Studies turned out to be very difficult. Prominent orientalists J. B. Radul-Zatulovsky (1903-1987) and E. M. Zalkind (1912-1980) were removed from the scientific leadership. A young graduate student chose a topic on the history of Lamaism in Buryatia, and she had to work independently and master a huge amount of material. K. M. Gerasimova continued to work on the topic at the Buryat-Mongolian Research Institute of Culture (BMNIIK). The dissertation is written using unique, previously unknown material in the Mongolian language and rare archival documents. In 1953. Ksenia Maksimovna successfully defended her PhD thesis at the Academic Council of the Eastern Faculty of Leningrad State University. In 1990. he defended his doctoral dissertation at the Institute of Ethnography of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Miklukho-Maklaya majoring in ethnography. The range of research interests of K. M. Gerasimova is very wide, and the degree of study is extremely deep. Her works are distinguished by a new and original approach to the subject of research, an independent vision of the material under study, and a thorough and scrupulous analysis. page 228 She was an amazing person with all the high qualities inherent in a tr ... Читать далее