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Ukraine. It is an ancient country which was a part of the
Soviet Union. Vladimir Ivanovich Dal
Vladimir Ivanovich Dal was born in 1801 in Lugansk. His father was Dane, mother was French and German by origin. In youth Iogan Hristian Dal was called out from Denmark to Russia by the emperor Ekaterina II because he was gifted in languages. He was the tsars librarian. he knew 7 languages. But he disliked his service at the court, he moved to German and joined the medical department. Later he came back to Russia. He was called in a Russia manner Ivan Matveivich. He had many jobs, he was a doctor at the plants in Lugansk, the chief army doctor of Black Sea Fleet. Then he moved to Nicolaev with the Family, where his son Vladimir Ivanovich Dal spend his childhood. At the age of 14 his brother Karl and he were sent to navel cadet college. There he had made friends with Paul Nahimov (out standing Russian admiral, one of the chiefs of the heroic Sevastopol defence, 1854-1855)Dmitry Zavalishin (last of December, has died at the age of 89). There he had made the first dictionary of cadet slang. At 17 he finished his studying. In 1819 he went to a place of a service and heard a word which has become the first word in his explanatory Dictionary of our great Russian language. At the fleet he wrote an epigram about the admiral Grake, and the admiral complained about him to the court. Dal had been sitting in the prison for almost two years. He was sent to Kronshtadt, in 1826 he entered Derpt University. At that time there was no anaesthetic. The success of the operation depends on the time it takes. Dal could make operations with both hands, that is why he was considered the best surgeon. His family moved to Derpt. There he was a member of literary circle, where he got acquainted with Zhukovsky (the Russian poet and translator), Pirogov (a Russian scientist and surgeon). In 1828 the Russian-Turkish war began. Dal was dispatched to work as a doctor. In 1829 he was appointed a main surgeon . After the war he moved to Kamenets-Podolsk. and in 1832 got a poor little flat in Peterburg. There he wrote the first his book of tales and signed as a Lugansk's Kossak. He was wanted to be put into a prison. The tsar read his book. But somebody remembered about one of the first in the world pontoon bridge which was built by Dal during the war (types of such bridges are used now). He was sent to Orenburg Gubernia. There he married Ylia Andrea. He built a pedestrian bridge across the Ural (which is situated there), opened the museum of zoology and botany, wrote textbooks of zoology and botany. His first wife had died and in 1840 he married Ekaterina Sokolova. In that time he was published in newspapers. The Academy of Sciences included him to correspondents. He moved to Peterburg and lived in architect Rossy street( nowadays there is a museum). He became a member-founder of scientific works. Then he was transferred to be chief of the department in Nizhy-Novgorod. At that time he became the trustee of prisons and founded a hospital for peasants. Dal finished his Commentary
dictionary of Russian language in 1862 in Moskow but he
had no money to publish this dictionary. The friends had
collected money(3000 rubley), but he had been deceived
and the dictionary was not published. Isar had given
money and the dictionary was published in 28 volumes. Up
to now there is no other dictionary like this in the
world, it contains more then 200 thousands words with
their explanations. 1. His father knew 7 languages. Jukov, Vanchenko, Eskov, Ignatovich, Mechnev. The Stone Statues I'd like to tell you a little about fate if stone statues. These statues stand in the open air museum near the Pedagogical University. They are over 700 years old. They are the oldest historical monuments in Lugansk region." The fate of stone carved images in the past and at present" The destruction of the images began almost simultanously with their mounting.
1. The invasion of the
Mongol-Tatars into south-european steppes. With this letter we send you images of stone idols (you can view it by some viewers). ANCIENT STONE COWERING ART OF LUGANSK REGION Stone is a firm difficult
destroying material that becomes a guide of creative plans usually
with metal and ceramics, through years and centuries. Stone played the
main part in the history of material and spiritual culture. The story
will be about the direction of a large human art – Polovetsc
"stone women". Scientists supposed that statues are
connected with different ethnoses. In 1885 scientists came to the
conclusion that the statues are stone – cowed heritage of ancient
Turks. Polischuk A. Statues were found behind old
bridges, not far from villages, in rivers and other places. All these
statues have been collected at the park-museum. This work took more
then 25 years. There are about 70 sculptures in this park now. All
this statues were found in Lugansk’ region. Melnik Cyril The "stone –women "
had their own features in clothes, coiffure and so on. Knives,
daggers, swords purses were attached to the belt. The woman’s
sculptures usually have beautiful heads attire. Very popular are cups
with water in hands near stomach. Centuries passed, names disappeared
from the pages of historical works, their customs were forgotten but
silent lolls still stand there is an opinion of the statues in
steppes. Many elements of luxurious dresses on them look exactly like
remnants of dresses from ancient gravers. Many gravers belong to the
bronze epoch. Menshikov V. Portrait of the head: Ollyashvily Nana Statues had different names. In ancient times they were called "balbans". Scientist discovered that "balbans" means "warier - hero". The stone women came from the old – Turkish word "human". It means forefather "father – grandfather "almost 60% of all statues are women. It is difficult to differentiate sex in statues who have both male and female signs. In the thirteenth century it was very important to show the idea if the immortality before Tatar- Mongols. That’s why they represented on the male’s statues female signs. And the brave women who were fighting in the battles had male signs. Polykov Denis In XIII – XIV centuries "stone women" continue to lose significance with Christianity Slav population. Period of XVIII – XIX centuries is the time of their destruction. In the XIX century a new mass destruction of the statues can be seen "Idols" were turned into stone ruins. In December 1843 by the Emperor Academy was issued decree for keeping sculptures. Yefimov Jane Editor in chief Gavrushenko Tania. Hotel Octovber Hello! Here is the picture of this hotel.
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