Vsevolod Ivanovich Roborovsky

Vsevolod Ivanovich Roborovsky (26 April 1856 – 23 July 1910[1][2]) was a Russian army officer, explorer, artist, and natural history collector in central Asia.

The family owned a farm in the village of Taraki in Tver province north of Moscow.

He studied at the Vilensky classical gymnasium and joined the 145 Novocherkassk infantry regiment in 1876, becoming a non-commissioned officer in 1877, trained in Helsinki and then became an ensign in 1878.

On the second expedition, he was in charge of photography and assisted Przewalski and Pyotr Kozlov in collecting birds and insects.

He failed to enter the officers academy, and on the next expedition in which Przewalski died, Roborovski took over command.