On the waves of life. Volume II
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In 1922, the Bolsheviks sent about two hundred representatives of the intelligentsia from the USSR. On board the so -called "philosophical ship" was the author of this book - astronomer, professor of Moscow University Vsevolod Viktorovich Stratonov (1869-1938) In the first years of Soviet power, Stratonov achieved considerable successes in the role of the organizer of scientific research, was among the founders of the first Astrophysical Observatory in Russia, and the famous State Astronomical Institute named after it then grew out of it. P.K. Sternberg. At the same time, Stratonov was an irreconcilably conflict person - he not only brought to himself the disgrace of the Bolshevik party, but also quarreled with many scientists -scientists. Stratonov’s memoirs transfer the reader to different corners of pre -revolutionary and early Soviet Russia - to the Kuban and the Caucasus, in Central Asia, in Moscow, Tver, Murom and Petrograd. The author describes how they studied, took exams and rebelled, how the astronomers observed the starry sky and the military topographers and geodesists went on expeditions, how the Cossacks, Caucasian highlanders and the peoples of Turkestan lived, as the bureaucratic world was arranged on the outskirts of the empire, how the revolution was accomplished and how the revolution and how was the revolution and how The Moscow professor fought for the highest school. In the memoirs of Stratonov, the reader will find not only valuable historical evidence, but also a fascinating narrative
Author:
Author:Stratonov Vsevolod Viktorovich
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Biographies & Memoirs
Series:
Series: Russia in memoirs
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-448-112-2
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