Alexander Tumansky

Tumanskiy, Aleksandr Grigorevich (Russian: Туманский, Александр Григорьевич) (1861–1920) was an orientalist, military interpreter, and Major General of the Imperial Russian Army, belonging to an ancient Ukrainian aristocratic family.

In 1911 he was appointed the head of the officers' Oriental language preparatory school in Tiflis (Tbilisi), which functioned under the Headquarters of the Caucasian Military Command.

[2] Tumansky is one of the first Russian-language scholars to investigate the Bábí movement in Persia in the middle of the 19th century and the first followers of the Baháʼí Faith in the East.

[8] During his research of the Bábí movement Tumansky corresponded with E.G. Browne[9] through Baron Victor Romanovich Rosen.

Another of his discoveries was a lost work of Ulugh-Beg, an ancient manuscript entitled "Olus-e-Arbaʻa", part of which, "Hudud ul-ʻalam", was published in 1930[10] and in 1937.

Russian State Archive of Literature and Art, case 777, dos'e 87, sheets 7, 8 2.

Full service record of Colonel A.G. Tumansky in March 1917, Russian State Military-Historical Archive, fond 409, opis' 1, case 148-610 (1917 year) 1.

Кузнецова К истории изучения Бабизма и Бахаизма в России, Иранский сборник 6, Москва, 1963 г., стр.

Идем (Рай), Иран в период революции XIX века, 1983 г., стр.

Абу'ль-хази Бахадор Хан, Родословная Туркмен (Генеалогическое древо туркменского народа), перевод А.Г.

Басханов, "Русские военные востоковеды до 1917 года: библиографический словарь", Москва, 2005, стр.