BOGOSLOVSKIJ, Vasilij Alekseevič. Moscow 20.1.1932 — 25.4.1986. Russian Tibetologist. Son of a public servant. Studies at the Hist. Faculty of Moscow University, graduated 1954. Kand. ist. nauk 1961. Naučnyj sotrudnik at the Oriental Institute 1957-67, from 1968 at the Institut Dal’nego Vostoka in Moscow.

Publications: At least 30 items, i.a.: kand. diss. Social’no-èkonomičeskie i političeskie otnošenija v Tibete v VII–IX vv. Manuscript of 279 p. M. 1961.

– Očerk istorii tibetskogo naroda (stanovlenie klassovogo obščestva). 192 p. M. 1962, French tr. Essai sur l’histoire du peuple tibétain ou la naissance d’une société des classes. 185 p. P. 1972.

– Politika XIII Dalaj-Lamy v Tibete. 139 p. M. 2002; also wrote on Chinese history.

Sources: Miliband 1977 & 1995.