The English translation of "Lhasa and Central Tibet" by <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/en:Author:Gombojab_Tsybikov" class="extiw" title="s:en:Author:Gombojab Tsybikov">G. Ts. Tsybikoff</a> in the "Annual report of the Smithsonian Institution" in 1903. The original report had been published in "Izvestia" of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society. The report provides an account of the journey made by G. Tsybikoff to Tibet in 1900 and 1901. G. Ts. Tsybikoff, a Mongolian Buriat and an alumnus of St. Petersburg University, went on pilgrimage to Lhasa at the time when no foreigners were allowed in Tibet. Tsybikoff wrote his report for the Imperial Russian Geographical Society. The report was accompanied by 50 photographs. Some of the photographs were taken by Tsybikoff, while others by Ovshe (O. M.) Norzunoff, the Kalmyk who visited Tibet at approximately the same time, arriving in Lhasa several months later.
G. Ts. Tsybikoff
1903
Smithsonian Institution