Leon Barszczewski (February 20, 1849 in
Warsaw – March 19, 1910 in
Częstochowa
Częstochowa ( , ; german: Tschenstochau, Czenstochau; la, Czanstochova) is a city in southern Poland on the Warta River with 214,342 inhabitants, making it the thirteenth-largest city in Poland. It is situated in the Silesian Voivodeship (admin ...
) was a Polish soldier, topographer, explorer of the Central Asia culture, naturalist, and glaciologer.
At the Paris exposition of 1895, he won a gold medal for his photographs of minerals.
[Perrie, Maureen; Lieven, D. C. B.; and Suny, Ronald Grigor (2006). ''The Cambridge History of Russia: Imperial Russia, 1689–1917''. Cambridge University Press. p.180. .]
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1849 births
1910 deaths
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