Petr Badmaev — doctor with roots in the Russian Empire
Petr Badmaev was a Buryat-Russian physician, diplomat, and entrepreneur who converted from Buddhism to Russian Orthodoxy, studied at the St. Petersburg Military Medical Academy, and became a personal adviser to Tsar Alexander III and Nicholas II. He practiced Tibetan medicine at the Russian court and played a major role in Russian imperial geopolitics in Central Asia.
Tracing the roots — Russian Empire Siberia
Born in Siberia as a member of the Buryat people — the Mongolian-speaking Buddhist community of Lake Baikal — Badmaev represents the extraordinary multicultural reach of the Russian Empire. His career brings together Siberian Buddhism, Russian imperialism, Tibetan medicine, and great power politics in a way that could only have happened in Tsarist Russia.
Influential in tsarist court.[web:61]
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Russian Empire Siberia. At the time, this region lay within the Russian Empire, which spanned from Poland to the Pacific.