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Kokand khan of the Ming dynasty (ruled 1845–75). Son of Shir Ali Khan, who was slain in 1845.Khudayar was repeatedly overthrown by rebellious feudal lords. The advance of Russian troops into Middle Asia forced him to declare the Kokand Khanate, in a treaty signed in 1868, a vassal of Russia. Khudayar was overthrown for the last time during the Kokand Rebellion of 1873–76 and fled to the ...

Born about 1806; died 1860. King of Cambodia from 1841. He waged war against Vietnam with the support of Siam from 1841 to 1845. In 1845 he reached an agreement with Siam and Vietnam providing for joint Siamese-Vietnamese guarantees for Cambodia. In 1847 he was officially crowned in the presence of representatives of both states. In 1860 he fought unsuccessfully against the Vietnamese over the ...

1800–1865, American Episcopal bishop, b. Near Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Ordained a priest in 1824, he served (1826–31) as rector of St. Paul's Church in Boston. In 1831 he became professor of philosophy and political economy at Union College; he was its vice president from 1838 to 1845. As bishop of Pennsylvania (1845–65), he founded in Philadelphia an Episcopal hospital (1860) and a divinity ...

Born 1819; died 1889. Russian engraver.Bernardskii studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (1838–43). In his wood engravings based on the drawings of A. A. Agin (illustrations done in 1846–47 for N. V. Gogol’s Dead Souls, and in 1846 for I. S. Turgenev’s poem The Landlord), G. G. Gagarin (illustrations done in 1845 for V. A. Sollogub’s story Tarantass), and others, he gave ...

Born 1819; died 1889. Russian engraver.Bernardskii studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (1838–43). In his wood engravings based on the drawings of A. A. Agin (illustrations done in 1846–47 for N. V. Gogol’s Dead Souls, and in 1846 for I. S. Turgenev’s poem The Landlord), G. G. Gagarin (illustrations done in 1845 for V. A. Sollogub’s story Tarantass), and others, he gave ...