To a Mongol emperor who had imported tigers from India and created a The great Manchurian tigers, according to Yuri, owed their existence Like the Yankovsky name, the Manchurian tiger's Region but it was the Manchurian tiger that reigned with a mixture ofĪwe and fear.
Visitors' accounts and photographsĪttest to the abundance of birds, deer, boars, bears and leopards in the Who made excursions to nearby Mount Baekdu during the summer and huntedĭuring the fall and winter. It was this steady income thatĮnabled the family to build and expand their hunting enclave.īy the 1930s, Novina had become quite popular with Russian tourists To supply their military with fresh meat. In Korea, Yuri managed to secure a contract with the Japanese government Hunting that was the main source of theirĪccording to historian Donald N. Vegetables, raised deer and supplemented their diet with the abundance We do know that the Yankovskys established orchards, fields of Tree kept their abode from falling into the abyss a and kept a dragon Lived in a castle perched on the edge of a deep chasm a only a single Their home was surrounded by fantastic legends. Life by cutting out her appendix with his hunting-knife." Even Steaks and vodka" and that Yuri had "saved his wife's
The family was rumored to live on nothing more than "tiger Novina and the Yankovsky family were bigger than life a theirĮxploits legendary and, to some degree, exaggerated. Yuri and his family fled Russia just after the Russian RevolutionĪnd settled on the east coast of modern North Korea, where they built anĮnclave of hunters known as Novina a "The New Place". Korea has long been famed for its tiger hunters but did you know thatĪrguably one of the greatest in Korean history was not a Korean but a The greatest tiger hunter." Retrieved from