Danilevsky biography

After studying in a private boarding house in Moscow, he was admitted to the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum, after which he was a freedom at the Natural Department of St. Petersburg University for the years. At the University, N. Danilevsky met N. Insurance, who became his friend, admirer and defender of his teachings, publisher of his book “Russia and Europe”. Here is how N. Strakhov describes their first meeting and acquaintance: “There was a talk between the students:“ Danilevsky, Danilevsky!

Everyone eagerly listened to what he was saying; The closest to him asked questions, and he answered and gave explanations. It was about the being of God and the Fourier system. ” The fascination with the teachings of Fourier brought Danilevsky closer to M. after Danilevsky defended his master's dissertation at the Botanika department in the year, he went to scientific practice to the Tula province, where he was suddenly arrested and sent to St.

Petersburg. He was held accountable for belonging to the revolutionary group of Petrashevsky. The investigation proved that Danilevsky interpreted Fourier’s teachings not as revolutionary, but as an economic one. After sitting for a hundred days in prison, he was sent first to Vologda, and then to Samara, where he worked in the office of the governor. Since the year, the Russian government Danilevsky was repeatedly sent on expeditions to study the state of fish reserves and fishing in the lower Volga, on the Caspian Sea, and subsequently in the White Sea and north of Russia.

In total, nine expeditions were committed, as a result of which a study of all waters of European Russia was conducted. For his activities, he was awarded the gold medal of the Russian Geographical Society, became part of the Council of the Ministry of State Property, where he took an active part in the development of laws that regulated the state of fish wealth in the country. In the year, Danilevsky, along with his family, moved to the southern coast of Crimea, having bought in a Mshatka, near the Baidara station, an estate with a huge garden and ruins burned by the French in the Crimean War of the Barsky House.

Most likely, it was in Crimea N. Danilevsky that worked on the book “Russia and Europe”, the first chapters of which were published in the journal “Dawn” in the year. The book “Russia and Europe” was completely published in the year, and its fifth edition was already published in the year. In the last years of his life, N. Danilevsky worked on two -volume labor “Darwinism”, which is criticizing the teachings of Charles Darwin.

Refuting and rejecting Darwin’s teaching about natural selection, the theory of the evolution of organisms, Danilevsky finds an explanation of their origin in the activities of the highest mind.

Labor remained incomplete. Danilevsky suddenly died of heart disease, which he suffered from the last years of his life. His body was transported to a mshatka, where he was buried. The main works of N. Danilevsky “On the movement of the population in Russia” “Climate of the Vologda province”