ALEXEY FEOFILACTOVICH See also:PEESEMSKY (182o-1881)
, See also:Russian novelist, was See also:born on his See also:father's See also:estate, in the See also:province of See also:Kostroma, on the loth/22nd of See also:March 1820
.
In his auto-See also:biography he describes his See also:family as belonging to the See also:ancient
Russian See also:nobility, but his more immediate progenitors were all very poor, and unable to read or write
.
His grandfather ploughed the See also:fields as a See also:simple See also:peasant, and his father, as See also:Peesemsky himself said, was washed and clothed by a See also:rich relative, and placed as a soldier in the See also:army, from which he retired as a See also:major after See also:thirty years' service
.
During childhood Peesemsky read eagerly the translated See also:works of See also:Walter See also:Scott and See also:Victor See also:Hugo, and later those of See also:Shakespeare, See also:Schiller.,
See also:Goethe, See also:Rousseau, See also:Voltaire and See also:George See also:Sand
.
From the I facture of See also:felt, boots and See also:- METAL
- METAL (through Fr. from Lat. metallum, mine, quarry, adapted from Gr. µATaXAov, in the same sense, probably connected with ,ueraAAdv, to search after, explore, µeTa, after, aAAos, other)
metal wares
.
gymnasium of Kostroma he passed through See also:Moscow University, See also:Pegau See also:grew up See also:round a monastery founded in 1o96, but does and in 1884 entered the See also:government service as a clerk in the not appear as a See also:town before the See also:close of the 12th See also:century. See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of the See also:Crown domains in his native province
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Between Markets were held here and its prosperity was further enhanced 1854 and 1872, when he finally quitted the See also:civil service, he by its position on a See also:main road See also:running See also:east and See also:west
.
In the occupied similar posts in St See also:Petersburg and Moscow
.
His monastery, which was dissolved in 1539, a valuable See also:chronicle See also:early works exhibit a profound disbelief in the higher qualities was compiled, the Annales pegavienses, covering the See also:period of humanity, and a disdain for the other See also:sex, although he appears
to have been attached to a particularly devoted and sensible wife
.
His first novel, Boyarstchina, was forbidden for its unflattering description of the Russian nobility
.
His See also:principal novels are Tufak (" A See also:Muff "), 185o; Teesicha doush (" A Thousand Souls "), 1862, which is considered his best See also:work of the See also:kind; and Vzbalomoucheneoe more (" A Troubled See also:Sea "), giving a picture of the excited See also:state of Russian society about the See also:year 1862
.
He also produced a See also:comedy, Gorkaya soudbina (" A See also:Bitter See also:Fate "), depicting the dark sides of the Russian peasantry, which obtained for him the Ouvaroff See also:prize of the Russian See also:Academy
.
In 1856 he was sent, together with other
See also:literary men, to See also:report on the ethnographical and commercial I obtained See also:general See also:acceptance, and has been extended by many See also:condition of the Russian interior, his particular See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field of inquiry authors to include vein-rocks of similar structure and See also:geological having been See also:Astrakhan and the region of the See also:Caspian Sea. relationships, which occur with syenites, diorites and gabbros
.
His See also:scepticism in regard to the liberal reforms of the 'sixties Only a few of these pegmatites have graphic structure or mutual made him very unpopular among the more progressive writers intergrowth of their constituents
.
Many of them are exceedingly of that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time
.
He died at Moscow on the 2nd of See also:February 188r coarse-grained; in See also:granite-pegmatites the feldspars may be (See also:Jan
.
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