Andrey Beketov Biography

The new Beketovka was born in the Penza estate of Alferievka, where he spent the first 8 years of his life. An early dead mother was replaced by a governess from Lausanne Elizaveta Ivanovna Furnier, who died in the Beketov’s house. Under her and paternal leadership, Andrei Nikolaevich mastered the works of Russian writers and historians from the home library. In the winter, the Beketovs moved to Penza.

In the city of Russian literature in the boarding house, Mikhail Borisovich Chistyakov taught, physics and mathematics - Karl Fedorovich Kessler, Latin - Grigory Ivanovich Lokhnin, whose pedagogical skill was valued in the northern capital. Beketov is enrolled in the Eastern Department of St. Petersburg University. In the second year, he is disappointed in the choice and moves to military service in the Life Guards Jaeger Regiment.

The service was not quite successful, and Nikolai Alekseevich takes his son to the Penza village for the whole year. From here he left for Kazan, where he entered one of the best the Physics and Mathematics Department of Kazan University in Russia. Beketov went to Tiflis for 4 years, where he took the position of senior teacher of the gymnasium. He spent the first lesson in his life in the presence of the trustee of the gymnasium and governor of the Caucasus Prince Mikhail Semenovich Vorontsov and his retinue.

Beketov went to St. Petersburg, where he received a master's degree in botany. One of the four of their daughters, Alexander Andreevna, was in his first marriage with the lawyer and publicist Alexander Lvovich Blok, from whom the poet, playwright and publicist Alexander Alexandrovich Blok was born the best years of his life, spent the poet in the Beketov family, where they knew and respected their ancestors and thirstyly guarded and supported the continuity of generations of this wonderful family.

Andrei Nikolaevich defends the doctoral dissertation "On the morphological relations of the leaf parts with each other and with the stem." Cooperation with the “Moscow Vedomosti” and “Russian messenger” enriched A. Beketov’s communication with journalists, scientists, writers, officials, but did not bring much earnings: they had to give private lessons paid for 70 kopecks.

For a short time, he lectured at the Department of Botany of Kharkov University, and in the city Andrei Nikolaevich acted as the organizer of the first botanical magazine "Botanical Notes" in Russia. The efforts of Beketov at the University in Milyutin and Academician M. Voronin; Further development was received by the university herbarium, which also included the Karelian herbarium.

In gg. The scientist’s scientific merits were worthy of the election of A. Beketov in the city of Beketov was his vice president, and with G. two directions determined the activities of society: agriculture and house-building. Beketov “The historical outline of the twenty -five -year activities of the Imperial Free Economic Society in G. in the scientific sphere, the interests of A.

Beketov lay in the field of morphology and botanical geography. He actually created a domestic school of botanical geographers. Andrei Nikolaevich held a high and honorary position of the rector of St. Petersburg University. His merits are great in the creation in the city of higher female courses, named after a professor of Russian history, academician Konstantin Nikolayevich Bestuzhev-Ryumin.

As the biographer A. Beketova A. Selivanov: "Courses can be called with the same right Beketovsky as they are now called Bestuzhevsk." The initiative of A. Beketov, the creation of the highest female courses found the understanding and support of the Minister of Education of Count Dmitry Andreyevich Tolstoy, who knew Penza well and entered the city of Andrei Nikolaevich, who determined the prospects for the development of botany, marked by the title of Honored Ordiner, a member of the Correllant, and in the city of Blok reflected the image of Andrei Nikolaevich in the poem "Retribution".

Beketova, an encyclopedist scientist, a member of many academies and scientific societies Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev acquired a small estate of Boblovo in the suburbs. According to his urgent councils, Andrei Nikolaevich in the city in Shakhmatov was the t prests of the land, most under the forest, the estate occupied 2.45 tithes. There was a one -story wooden house on the estate, and at the entrance there was a small outbuilding.

Here, in natural splendor and home comfort, the whole numerous relatives of Andrei Nikolayevich often gathered, from 6 years old Alexander Blok will be brought here. Of the 40 years, 36 he spent in Shakhmatov, who turned out to be a creative nest for him: from above the works was created in this beloved by Bekete and Mendel Poetic Parnas. The friendly duet of Beketov and Mendeleev can be supplemented with a third party.

In the apartment of the first in Russia and Northern Europe, the women-professional member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences Sofia Vladimirovna Kovalevskaya met Andrei Nikolayevich with an outstanding biologist Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, awarded the Nobel Prize. This acquaintance grew into close friendship. Moreover, Ilya Ilyich married A. Beketov’s niece Lyudmila Fedorovna.

Source: Tyistin, A. Penza Personia. The fame of Penza multiplied.