Biography of the daughter of Mendeleev

Mendeleev’s branch: Family stories from the biography of the great scientist Mendeleevsky branch: Family stories from the biography of the great scientist in the family of the director of the Tobolsk gymnasium Ivan Mendeleev son Dmitry was the last, seventeenth child, as they said, “last to the last”. However, neither the early death of the parent, nor the complex financial situation of the orphaned family prevented the youngest to receive a university education and become a world -class science.

In Rus', from time immemorial, they paid attention to what family a person gets out of or has already come into an independent life and what he carries in his “family code”. Hence the well -known proverbs: “Do not expect a good tribe from a thin seed”; "What is the root, such is the offspring." Although, on the other hand, heredity in our society has never been absolutized: "And a flaw lives from good seed." The history of Mendeleev in this sense is indicative from all sides.

The original family name of the family is the Sokolovs. She was worn by the grandfather of the paternal line, a priest of the village of Tikhmandritsa, Vyshnevolotsky district of the Tver province. At the end of the seminary, the three sons of Pavel Maksimovich, as was customary among the Bursaks, received different “nicknames”. One of the Sokolov brothers, Ivan, became Mendeleev because those who lived near his native village of Tver landowners wore such a surname.

And the illustrious son explained her origin as follows: "Given to his father when he exchanged something, as the neighboring landowner Mendeleev changed horses." At the end of Bursa, Popovich Ivan entered in St. Petersburg at the philological department of the Main Pedagogical Institute. Having graduated from the year among the best, he was determined by the “teacher of philosophy, elegant arts and political economy” in Tobolsk, where he taught gymnasium students Russian literature and German, the logic and law of God, interpreted philosophical works and foundations of political economy.

One of the students of Ivan Pavlovich was Pyotr Ershov, later the famous author of the “Humpbacked skate” later he himself taught the younger Mendeleevs. In the year, a young teacher married Maria Kornilieva, who came from an old family of Siberian merchants and industrialists. This wonderful woman, who did not receive any education, herself, along with the brothers, went through a full gymnasium course, studied foreign languages, mastered the game on the piano.

According to her testimony, the ancestor of the Korniliev clan was the baptized Kalmyk Yakov Vasilievich, who brought a certain merchant to Russia from Dzungaria. Grandfather Dmitry Mendeleev for his mother had a craving for enlightenment, published magazines in which, among other things, the local history and ethnographic articles written by him were printed.

The early illness of the Iznik researcher interrupted his active scientific activity, and the lack of money led to the estate “reduction”: from merchants-in the bourgeois. The mother of the future opener of the periodical table inherited a small, built in the 18th century, a glass-chrystal factory in the village of Aremzyansky near Tobolsk and a unique tribal library.

From the end of the Go, Ivan Mendeleev was the director of the schools of the Tambov province and received a very decent salary. Friends characterized "him as an active and active man, who cares for the fate of his pupils, unusually honest and religious." With GO Mendeleevs lived in Saratov, where the head of the family was appointed director of the gymnasium. Due to the machinations of the trustee of the Kazan training district, Ivan Pavlovich was forced to return to Tobolsk, where, however, he received a similar position as the director of the classical gymnasium.

They lived, as they said in those years, an “open house”. On Sundays, after the church service, Mendeleevs gathered a local “good society”. Played, read poetry, played cards. There were also exile Decembrists, and one of them, Nikolai Basargin, marries, years later, the daughter of Ivan Pavlovich Olga.

The son of Governor Tobolsk, the future famous composer Alexander Alyabyev also came to this house and played here in four hands with his wife’s wife on the piano. Maria Dmitrievna gave birth very often. Many brothers and sisters of Dmitry Mendeleev died or three babies did not even have time to give names, or very young. In those days, a high level of mortality - especially the children - was not only in poor peasant families.

In m - seven and a half years before the birth of a brilliant “lasting” - from the consumption, the beloved daughter, the first -born of the Mendeleevs, the summer Masha died. Her sister Catherine recalled: “Mother was in despair to the point that she could not see other children. We all had long hair that the mother curled up for the night, and during the day they lay behind long curls - so it was with Mashenka, and Olenka, and I had it.

They buried Mashenka, Mamenka told us to cut our hair and could not curl us. ” And in M ​​in the family two significant events occurred at once - very bad for parents and their children and very good for all of mankind.In the Metric Book of the Tobolsk Epiphany Church, an entry appeared: "The general of the twenty -seventh day of the Tobolsk gymnasium, the director of the court adviser Ivan Pavlov Mendeleev from his legitimate wife, Marya Dmitrieva, was born the son of Dimitri." In the same year, the father of the family, due to the developed cataracts, almost blinded.

I had to retire, which was much less than the director's salary. Catherine took him to Moscow, where, after a successful operation, the head of the family was returned to vision. However, there was no return to the previous work: due to the aggravation of other ailments, Ivan Pavlovich became incapable of work. All worries about the family lay on his wife's shoulders. The brother of Maria Dmitrievna, who was in charge of the affairs of the princes of Trubetskiy, gave her a power of attorney to the glass factory in Aremzyan, and the mother -in -law decided to take the enterprise management into her own hands.

For her, the wife of a disabled person, it was truly a non -trivial move! She managed to story about the case so that none of his subordinates dared her to deceive her, and the factory peasants completely fell in love. Maria Mendeleeva resurrected the stalled production, built a school and a temple in the village. Dmitry Ivanovich recalled: “There, at the glass factory, ruled by my mother, I got my first impressions from nature, from people, from industrial affairs.” In the year, Ivan Pavlovich died, a factory burned out a year later, but it was required at all costs to provide younger children, including the summer graduate of the primary gymnasium Mitya, and a serious education.

Maria Dmitrievna committed a real maternal feat: turning all the things and selling property in Tobolsk, she, along with Dmitry and daughter Elizabeth, went on Brichichi in Belokamennaya to determine her son to Moscow University. In Russian expanses, they drove two thousand kilometers, crossed the Ural mountains, great rivers. The teenager Mendeleev then saw with his own eyes, realized the immense and power of his native country, which undoubtedly affected his worldview.

He was not accepted to the university - the Siberians had to enter Kazan, and then the mother moved with him to the capital, where she achieved the capable young man to be taken to the university that his father was graduated, the main pedagogical. Having reached the goal, as if exhausting all the power given to her by God, she died in the same year. Devoting his first major scientific work under the name “Research of aqueous solutions by specific gravity”, Dmitry Mendeleev wrote with piercing gratitude: “Your last fifteenth of the seventeenth of those born, you lifted to your feet, nurtured your labor after the death of the priest, conducting the factory business, you taught you to love nature with its truth, the science with her truth, the other children of Maria Dmitrievna They did not show themselves outstanding, and the sister of Dmitry Ivanovich Olga voluntarily or involuntarily played a negative role in the fate of the Russian genius, introducing him to her friend Feozva Leshcheva: taking advantage of his brother’s fleeting enthusiasm, she actually arranged their marriage.

He, alas, turned out to be unhappy: the young scientist soon discovered that he did not like his wife, mentally distant from him, she was also six years older. Nevertheless, the couple lived for 15 years, giving birth to three children in the marriage: Maria died in infancy, the son Vladimir and daughter Olga remained. Vladimir Dmitrievich, who graduated with honors from the Marine Cadet Corps, became an officer.

His fate is quite remarkable. Having fallen in love with actress Maria Yurkovskaya in marriage to Andreev, later - the civil wife of Maxim Gorky, he received a deep emotional trauma. Saving his son from depression, his father achieved his appointment to the Fregat team “Memory of Azov”, who went to the “semicircle”. In the country of the rising sun, Vladimir had the Japanese “wife” Taka Hidesim, who later gave birth to his daughter atfuji.

Dmitry Ivanovich recognized his granddaughter and periodically sent her mother money. Having resigned, Vladimir was developing a “project to raise the level of the Sea of ​​Azov’s Sea of ​​the Kerch Strait of the Kerch Sea,” but suddenly died of pneumonia, which caused his father severe mental pain. The story of Olga Dmitrievna is perhaps not so dramatic.

Early widowed, she was carried away by the breeding of thoroughbred hunting dogs in her husband’s estate. This estate was defeated in the revolution, and she moved to Moscow, where, according to the patronage of Dzerzhinsky, she got a job in the nursery of the service dogs of the NKVD. Having lived for 82 years the longer all of the children of the great scientist, in M, she published the book "Mendeleev and his family." The second wife of Dmitry Ivanovich is 26 years younger than his daughter of the Don Cossack from Uryupinsk.

With Anna Popova, Mendeleev had four children. About the first -born - the companion of life and the beautiful lady of Alexander Blok, who almost caused his duel with Andrei Bely - a lot is known. Less “lucky” with the glory of the two sons of the scientist from this marriage - Ivan and Vasily. The first Dmitry Mendeleev called his “friend and adviser”. This young man, a graduate of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of St.

Petersburg University, actively helped the parent, performing calculations for his economic works.After the death of Dmitry Ivanovich, Ivan Dmitrievich prepared the last work of the great scientist for the publication “Addition to the knowledge of Russia”. In years, a variety of gifted son wrote two philosophical books, and after the revolution he worked in the main chamber of the measures and weights of the USSR, exploring the thermostats and the properties of heavy water.

Living in the summer in a bath of burned, buried by peasants of the Mendeleev estate in Boblovo, he organized a school for peasant children in the village. In the year, at the age of 53, he also died there suddenly under strange circumstances. The fate of the younger offspring, Vasily, is even more bizarre. Having graduated from the Marine Technical School in Kronstadt, he worked at the St.

Petersburg shipbuilding plant, designed submarines and minefields. Before the German war, he developed a model of no analogues in the world of a superheavy tank. After the death of the famous father, Fenya Vasily Dmitrievich, who chose in the narrowed girl, was “cursed” by his mother. Throwing everything, he settled with a hift in the Alexander Sloboda. He fled with his wife from hunger to Kuban, where both died of typhoid.

The youngest daughter of the Russian genius, the twin of Vasily Maria, like her older sister Olga, was carried away by the breeding of cops and became a dog handler. In Soviet times, she taught in technical schools, and after the Great Patriotic War, when the name of the great scientist as opposed to the "Bezrodny Cosmopolitans" was glorified in every possible way, Maria Dmitrievna was appointed head of the museum-Arkhiv Mendeleev at the University of Leningrad.

Now, alas, none of the successors of the clan is left, unless, of course, the hypothetical offspring from the Japanese granddaughter of Dmitry Ivanovich will not take into account. Grandchildren-assitants could also appear as a result of his first premarital novel with the German actress Agnes Foykhtman. Upon learning of the birth of their daughter Rosamunda, Mendeleev regularly paid child support until the girl’s adulthood, although he doubted his paternity.

Remembering the famous metaphor, we can say: on the generic apple tree of the falcon-melody, the fruit of such a size rose once that after this natural forces there was only a few apples of smaller and more left. Well, the more serious reason for the universal and not of a single kind of degeneration lies in the fact that the attitude of Russian society, primarily formed by its formed part, to traditional, family values ​​throughout the 19th century, more and more subsequent centuries, has been steadily changed.

It was believed - for the sake of "social liberation", but a total degeneration turned out.