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Ta'rikh-i Badakhshan ("Istoriia Badakhshana"). Faksimile rukopisi. Izdanie teksta, perevod s persidskogo A. N. Boldyreva pri uchastii S. E. Grigor'eva, vvedenie A. N. Boldyreva i S. E. Grigor'eva, primechaniia i prilozheniia S. E. Grigor'eva. Moskva: Vostochnaia Literatura, 1997, 142 str. (vvedenie, perevod, primechaniia, prilozheniia), 256 str. (tekst pamiatnika).

Ta'rikh-i Badakhshan ("The History of Badakhshan"). Facsimile of the text. Edition of the text, translation from the Persian by A. N. Boldyrev with the assistance of S. E. Grigoryev, introduction by A. N. Boldyrev and S. E. Grigoryev, notes and appendices by S. E. Grigoryev. Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura Publishing House, 1997, 142 pp. (introduction, translation, notes, appendices), 256 pp. (text of the original).
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V. L. Uspensky. Prince Yunli (1697-1738). Manchu Statesman and Tibetan Buddhist. Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, 1997, VIII, 140 pp.
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