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Zirkoff, Boris

Escayrac de Lauture, Count Stanislas d’. French traveller and anthropologist, b. March 19, 1826; d. at Fontainebleau, Dec. 20, 1868. Travelled widely in Africa and Syria, recording his experiences in several works, among them: Le Désert et le Soudan, Paris, 1853, and Voyage dans le grand désert et au Soudan, Paris, 1858. Made a journey to China, 1860, on a scientific mission for the French Government, where he experienced great misfortunes and hardships which shortened his life. He relates them in his Mémoires sur la Chine (in Magazin pittoresque, 1865).

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 3, p. 505