Vasnetsov Mikhail Viktorovich General data:
27.10.1884 - 30.01.1972
Place of birth: Moscow City
Studied in: Imperial Moscow University (since 1940 M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University) (1908);
Key interests: solar physics, astronomy, meteorology
Biography:
He was born on October 14, 1884 (in the Julian calendar, according to Gregorian calendar 27) in Moscow City (according to other sources - in the Knyazhevo village in Moscow province of the Russian Empire, now - Yegoryevsky district, Moscow region of the Russian Federation) in the middle-aged family of an artist of the genus of a hereditary priest. He grew up in Vasnetsov's Moscow House and the famous Abramtsevo village.
After completing the 4th Moscow Gymnasium with a gold medal, I entered the first year of the Imperial Moscow University. In 1908 he graduated from the mathematical faculty of the Imperial Moscow University, specializing in astronomy.
Having left the military service, Mikhail Viktorovich Vasnetsov taught in private gymnasiums. Worked as a teacher and with heavy, "street teens" 12-16 years in an institution called "Child Labor and Recreation", where he equipped his own observatory.
He was a member of the Moscow Society of Amateur Astronomers, which was founded in 1910.
Conducted observations of Halley's comet in the Crimea in April 1910.
In 1912 he and his wife moved to Odessa city, receiving a job at the Astronomical Observatory.
Since the beginning of the First World War in 1914 he was mobilized. At first he was in the reserve regiment in Odessa, and then he managed to get a place for a meteorological teacher at the Aviation School in Kyiv City. In August 1917, the School of Observatory pilots was transferred to Crimea, to Evpatoria, and in 1918 the school was closed. Considering himself demobilized, the astronomer and his wife returned to Odessa. In 1920, he was again called into the army (White Guards), and subsequently, among the remnants of the regiment was evacuated abroad, stopped in Gallipoli, and in the end of 1921 he moved to Bulgaria.
In October 1922, he found in Sofia city the work of a teacher of mathematics in the Technical Courses, which are held by Americans. But for this he had to leave the staff of the Engineering School.
While still a member of the Observatory of the Imperial Novorosian University of Odessa City (until 1918), he was studying solar activity, observing solar eclipses in Yalta in 1910, as well as August 8, 1914, which was observed from Scandinavia to the North Caucasus.
He was a member of the Russian Academic Group in Bulgaria; Secretary of the Gallipool Academic Group. Since 1924 (according to some data since 1920) he lived in Prague (Czechoslovakia), where he conducted pedagogical and scientific activities. He was member of Russian Academic Group.
He taught at the University of Prague astronomy.
Since 1925 he was the secretary of the engineering and construction department of the Academic Board, a member of its physics and mathematics department.
At the same time, he became more and more deeply involved in spiritual life, and in 1932 he was ordained a deacon, and in 1933 he received a priest from the Orthodox Church of Prague or, more precisely, the Church of St. Nicholas, subsequently organized a home church in the apartment where he lived since 1924 with his wife and son than his wife has obtained permission to go abroad.
During 1946 - the end of the 1960's he was the rector of the Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas in Prague.
In 1945, the Red Army burst into Prague and their son disappeared, grieving parents, believed that he was killed, or was arrested and sent to his homeland, where he was taken to a concentration camp. Many years have passed until the news came from the USSR that the son lives in Kyiv City...
In 1957 he visited his relatives in the USSR.
He died on January 30, 1972 in the Prague city and buried in Olshansky cemetery.
Sources:
1 Íåèçäàííûé Èâàí Ëàïøèí./Ë. Ã. ÁÀÐÑΠ— ÑÏá.: Èçäàòåëüñòâî ÑÏáÃÀÒÈ, 2006. —424 ñ.-Ñ. 71
2 Ìîñêîâñêèé êðóæîê ëþáèòåëåé àñòðîíîìèè — Ìîñêîâñêîå îáùåñòâî ëþáèòåëåé àñòðîíîìèè
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