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Academician, Mongolist and ethnographer, linguist,
translator using and translating in 14 foreign languages, founder of the
Mongolian news agency Moncame, the last academic authority struggling
against politically motivated replacement of Mongolian traditional script
by a variety of Russian Cyrilic. |
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| With his inseparable cigarette and
slightly ironical smile discussing some of his favorite topics |
Above: Me and my brother in the
grandfather's house. The photo was taken by another renomous Mongolist and
an advisor on Asian issues to the American presidents J. Kennedy, Mr. Owen
Lattimore. |
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Son of a scholar, interpreter and
businessman, Rinchen himself seemed to have a bright future ahead... Who
could know that he will soon be sentenced to death and later, after the
World War II, be known around the world as an excellent scholar but still
treated in his own country as an "enemy of nation" for
decades... |
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With Indira Gandhi in 1972 on a Congress
to which she had to send him a personal invitation, based on Rinchen's old
time friendship with her father J. Nehru, as the Mongolian regime of that
time did not want to allow him to participate... |
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With his wife (to his left) - one of the bravest and
toughest women I have ever known. |
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| In one of his ethnographic
expeditions to Mongolian countryside in the late 1950-ies |
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Thanks to grandpa Rinchen I (standing)
have been by that time already been in my final grade of one of the
world's best art schools. These were my last winter holidays with him in
1977... |
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