 2), assembled all available at that time data about kurgan obelisks, and illustrated them with drawings of 44 statues.Later in the 19th century, data about these statues was gathered by A.I.Kelsiev, and in Siberia, Turkestan and Mongolia by Potanin, Pettsold, Poyarkov, Vasily Radlov, Ivanov, Adrianov and Yadrintsev, in Prussia by Lissauer and Gartman.