Tan-Bogoraz

[Henny van der Groep <tijgervink...>]

Dear listers,
I've a question about Natan Mendelevich Bogoraz.

Firstly some  history of Bogoraz

He was an anthropogist, etnologist and linguist. Under the Tzars sent to 
Siberie were he wrote some poems. Studied the people of Siberia and was the 
first who set up a plan to teach analphabatic people in the North. He even 
wrote a primer. In the time he had to spend in Siberia he studied 
thoroughly Shamans and their habits, costums etc. He also wrote many books 
about Northeast Siberian people.
He was famous in the Soviet and America were he did go for a while but he 
got homesick so he returned. He set up Ïnstitut Narodov Severa (Leningrad?).
Bogoraz also set up a Museum about the inhabitants of Siberia (I'm not sure 
but I think in Leningrad). He was very famous in those days.

He also had a couple of pseudonyms: Nat)an Mendelevich Bogoraz, Waldamar 
Bogoraz and Tan Bogoraz to keep his Jewish background on the background. 
Although later on he converted to Christian  religion, he always kept his 
origin high. One might even think he changed from religion due to the 
pogroms (actually I'm almost sure about that)
He was a rebel and several times (about twenty)  back in prison. He wrote 
and translated revolutionary poems.
He  translated a Song by Walt Whitman " Pesnja" freely ((and about this I'm 
not sure) in Russian. Shostakovich used this translation. In his opus 88 
Revolutionary Poems etc no 10.

I'm doing some research about any connection between Bogoraz and 
Shostakovich or Eisenstein and Trauberg.
I would appreciate any help on this. Thanks in advance  Henny van der Groep

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