P Goullart

Peter Goullart was born in Moscow at the beginning of the twentieth century. During the Russian Revolution he escaped from Moscow with his mother through Vladivostok to Shanghai. There he learnt Chinese and at a moment of personal crisis went to study at the Taoist Monastery near Hangchow. It was during his own travels that he first penetrated to Likiang in the south-west Chinese province of Yunnan. He realised immediately that here ... was where he wished to work and live.