Alexei Ouvarov – Wikipedia
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The count Alexei Sergeevitch Ouvarov (in Russian : Count Alexey Sergeevich Uvarov ), born the in Saint Petersburg and deceased the In Saint Petersburg, is a Russian archaeologist, honorary member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of Saint Petersburg (1857), who was at the origin of the archaeological congresses and one of the founders of the Archaeological Society of Moscow (1857 ) and from the Moscow Historical Museum.
Alexei Ouvarov is the son of Count Sergei Semionovitch Ouvarov and his wife, born Comtesse Iekaterina Ivanovna Razoumovskaïa (1783-1849).
In 1859, he married Princess Praskovia Sergueïevna Chtcherbatova (1840-1924), daughter of Prince Sergei Alexandrovitch Chtcherbatov (1804-1872) and his wife, née Praskovia Borissovna Sviatopolk-Tchetvertinskaïa. The Countess Ouvarova made her husband an archaeologist career as her husband.
Seven children were born from this union:
- Alexei Alexeïevitch Ouvarov (1859-1913), he married Anna Ivanonva Stenberg, of whom he had two children: Nadine Alexeïevna Ouvarova and Sergei Alexeïevitch Ouvarov, voluntary committed to the preobrajenky regiment on 25/07/1914, then transferred to the regiment of tartares The native cavalry of the Caucasus (1915-1917). He organized the first evacuation train to Sofia (Bulgaria) in the fall of 1917. Then he emigrated to France. He married Nina L. Smirnova (1895-1987).
- Prague Alexezvna Oouvarova: (1860-1834).
- Sergei Alexeïevitch Ouvarov: (1862-1888).
- Iekaterina Alexeïevna Ouvarova: (1863-1863)
- Iekaterina Alexeïevna Ouvarova: (1864-1953)
- Fiodor Alexeïevitch Ouvarov: (1866-1954), president of the Council of the district of Mojaïsk, member of the Council of State of the Assembly of the Zemstvos of Moscow, he married Princess Iekaterina Vassilievna Goudovitcha (1848-1948), sister of Alexandre Borissovitch Goudovitch. After the Russian revolution, the couple emigrated to France.
- Igor Alexeïevitch Ouvarov: (1869-1934), marshal of the nobility of Belski, he married Ielizaveta nikolaïevna khomiakova [ first ] .
Count Alexei Sergueïevitch Ouvarov came from a family of the Russian nobility of distant Tatare origin.
Childhood [ modifier | Modifier and code ]
As a child, he received a solid education in family property, his father personally ensuring his studies, and himself teaching him the human and social sciences. In the literary department of the Imperial University of Saint Petersburg, Alexei Ouvarov has as professor F.B. Grefe, one of the founders of the school of classical philology in Russia [ 2 ] , who teaches him Greek literature. Nikolai Guéramissovitch Oustrialov (1805-1870) teaches him Russian history. In 1845, Ouvarov Comte entered the University of Berlin, then at the University of Heidelberg to perfect his training. Back in Russia, he held a post at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, then to the Ministry of the Interior [ 3 ] .
The archaeologist [ modifier | Modifier and code ]
In 1848, the count received authorization to conduct studies on antiquity, as well as excavations which take place in Rostov, Vladimir, Chernigov and in the feudal city of Souzdal. The results of these scientific investigations are published in Russian and French. Between 1851 and 1854, he visited the cities of Vladimir, Iaroslavl, Ivanovo east of Moscow), and also other places in the history of the history
Kievian Russia. In 1854, back in the province of Souzdal, Alexei Sergueïevitch Ouvarov undertook to study the people of the Meyrias (Finno-Ugrian tribe), for whom he carried out excavations in Sarskoïe Gordichtche (Fort-Sara), a fortified medieval village built on the Rive of the Sara River in the Iaroslavl oblast). The result of his excavations is published under the title of: Meryans and their lifestyle as shown by the excavations of Kourganes (Turkish term to designate a tumulus) [ 4 ] .
Other scientific investigations bring him to Olbia du Pont, in the Tauride government and Neapolis Scythe [ 5 ] , [ 3 ] .
During the following years, his scientific activities ceased, because painful events come to disturb his work, as the death of his father which occurred . In order to honor his memory, the count dedicates to his father the Ouvarov Academy of Sciences Academy Founded in 1857 [ 5 ] . Prize awarded to historians and writers. At the same time, it is placed at the head of Russian and Slavic archeology society.
In 1864, he founded the Archaeological Society of Moscow, of which he was elected president for life. Under the chairmanship of Count Ouvarov, the Academy meets every three years in one of the six ancient cities of Russia. On his advice, a brochure intended for excavations carried out in the tumulus is published. On the initiative of the count, excavations are carried out in the Krivitchi tumulus located in Carelia of the North and in Tver. He showed a great interest in Ivan Fedorov (1520-1583), one of the first founders of the printing in Russia, including with other personalities, he worked in the development of biography [ 5 ] .
In 1881, the count had two titled volumes published Russian archeology in prehistoric times [ 5 ] .
Between 1872 and 1884, Alexei Sergueïevitch Ouvarov worked at the Foundation of the Historical Museum, of which he developed the regulations and the program. He held the position of director from 1881. The work of the completed building, a first exhibition about the excavations of Ouvarov is organized [ 3 ] .
The works of Alexei Sergeevitch Ouvarov made it possible to greatly advance the knowledge of the pre-Slavian cultures which lived in the European part of the Russian Empire.
Death and burial [ modifier | Modifier and code ]
Count Alexei Sergueïevitch Ouvarov dies the in Moscow and is buried at the Novodievitchi convent in Moscow [ 3 ] .
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