Cheboksarov Biography

Cheboksarov in science and in life source: ethnographic review. Maybe he said his mother Evgenia Nikolaevna, maybe I heard him from Irina Abramovna, the wife of Nikolai Nikolayevich. This happened two or three times, no more. Nevertheless, the intimate -domestic name “Kolya Cheboksarov” sounds significant and determining - as a purpose of fate, as an intending to the capable boy and young man to develop his abilities and give his name and surname a socially significant meaning - to become a scientist.

In any case, this name gives some opportunity to create an image to us - this is a guiding thread, which is necessary in order to present the fate of a person. Kolya Cheboksarov. His parents are Russian intellectuals, it seems, merchant from the Volga region. Evgenia Nikolaevna, after marriage, lived with her husband there. She knew the French who taught me perfectly.

She spent her childhood and early youth in Yalta. Chekhov knew her and asked to fulfill some small issues several times. There was still an older brother Boris, who became an engineer. Kolya Cheboksarov was surrounded by family tenderness and attention of the elders. Once I expressed Evgenia Nikolaevna my attitude to the magnificent speech of Nikolai Nikolaevich, oral and written.

I then called his gift “speech artistry”, bearing in mind that this gift was striking to everyone and was unexpected in comparison with the stoop and obese, “not visible” appearance. Evgenia Nikolaevna answered me that in the development of this talent of Nikolai Nikolaevich, children's performances in which he participated played a large role. Such home theaters were indeed very fashionable at the beginning of the century.

Recall the youthful hobby of them Alexander Blok. Once at the end of the x. Closely contacting Nikolai Nikolaevich in E GG. The first is characterized by the fact that he goes from the image to the word. Everyone knows the speaker and lecturer of Cheboksarov, who, with a shuffling gait, concentratedly tilting his head, approached the tribune - and transformed. His huge erudition, processed into scientific images, splashed out in an amazing speech addressed to listeners.

Such Cheboksarova was well presented in his publication about him Vladimir Vladimirovich Pimenov, who illuminated his activities at the Department of Ethnography in E GG. It was less visible in the work of Cheboksary theoretic. For example, there is a Vedda people on Sri Lanka, which differs from the surrounding population with anthropological features: more dark -colored skin, etc.

Nikolai Nikolaevich called this type “Wedid”. As an ethnographer, he often in the distribution of features saw “Slavic”, “Finno-Ugric” or “Indonesian” features. The ethnonym word directed his thinking. In memory, indeed, Nikolai Nikolaevich possessed amazing. I will give at least such an example. Once, in a playful competition, he more fully called the list of Roman emperors than an anti-war specialist.

There is another path from the past, according to which the name Kolya Cheboksarov reached me. In the city, people were transferred to a specially created ethnological faculty. Sergei Pavlovich Tolstov went there. But Nikolai Nikolaevich nevertheless graduated from the agricultural fiber, having received a diploma with the specialty "Rasovede". Even before the graduation, he began to work at the Museum of Pionerterakh under the leadership of the anthropologist Mark Solomonovich Plisetsky, the uncle of the famous ballerina.

There, Nikolai Nikolaevich prepared, in particular, the exposition on races and in the forms of development of economics among the peoples of the world. His brother Boris and Anthropologantipine, who later left for Frunze, participated in the expedition. It may be permissible to say a few words about the attitude of Nikolai Nikolaevich to the two closest women for him, for I firmly convinced, observing large scientists, in the fact that in the life of any of them a woman plays a very large role.

This applied to Nikolai Nikolaevich to a special extent. Evgenia Nikolaevna as a person with her special tact and wisdom, undoubtedly, directed the path of Nikolai Nikolaevich in his young years. In his character there was one weakness - indecision, sometimes growing almost into a fright before the circumstances. So, Evgenia Nikolaevna said that in the city of Evgenia Nikolaevna we owe the fact that she retained in Nikolai Nikolaevich after all the experience of life and in the favorite business.

But in his fate Irina Abramovna appeared. They met on October 16, left institutions. I think that fate sent Nikolai Nikolaevich at this difficult moment the friend he needed. Irina Abramovna was very strong, even cool. By this, she always compensated for the indecision of Nikolai Nikolaevich. In the defense of the doctoral dissertation in the city of Nikolai Nikolaevich, he suddenly refused to go to the rostrum.

Irina Abramovna took his hand. Sometimes it got from it, the employees of the Asian Foreign Affairs sector. Now, after time, it became better how they were necessary for each other. When, as it turned out, the last time I had seen Nikolai Nikolaevich in the hospital before his death and was already going to the door, Nikolai Nikolaevich suddenly said: “You know, I really love Ira.”It must have been a special attitude towards women in general, Cheboksarov.

In this, Boris Nikolaevich was a perfect romantic. At one meeting at the table, he uttered the following words: "Russia holds on women." Of course, they contain the truth. He refused to visit the churches or Catholic churches in the Baltic states, although he was interested in: "They will say that the Anthropologist Cheboksarov goes to church." In general, Nikolai Nikolaevich spoke little about religion.

Once I saw a big announcement that scientists will speak in the Polytechnic Museum with a statement of their views on religion. There was the name of Nikolai Nikolaevich. He did not appear at this meeting, but to my question “Why? In the last years of his life, Nikolai Nikolaevich often found himself in the hospital of either a fracture of the bone, then the disease of the eyes and liver.

In one of his visits in the hospital, I saw that he was reading the Bible, taken from a neighbor in the ward. It was an occasion to talk about religion. Household Russian superstitions, like a ban on greeting the threshold, etc. Many facts allow me to say that Nikolai Nikolaevich was religious and superstitious. Once in Novosibirsk in E GG. I immediately connected this with the memory of how Malchisheki was inquisitive Alexei Pavlovich when I invited me to look with me to Moscow with the Ostankino television tower just open to visitors.

And with the fact that he could write an article on the expedition, lying under a truck, hiding from the scorching sun, and not to notice that drops of lubricating oil fall on his back. I think that the boy is at the heart of interest in the knowledge of Russian scientists, which was pronounced in Ivan Petrovich Pavlov and Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov. Vavilov spoke to me in Andre Adrikur, the largest French agricultural historian and a linguist, who was in the beginning of the 20th, spoke to me.

With the Odricur, we botanized the wastelands of Khabarovsk during the Pacific Congress. Odricu himself had a boyfriend in his eyes. I recall the eyes of large scientists with whom they are boyish - tortured, persistently, with incredulity and enthusiastically looked at the world. I can’t help but mention Yakov Yakovlevich Roginsky, "Jew, so to speak, from the Jews." He himself told Cheboksarov that in the evacuation, when he was written out a passport, they asked about nationality, he resumed, or something, after loss, I did not remember.

He answered like this: "Jew." The passportist was recorded by India. Yakov Yakovlevich corrected her: "Yes, not an Indian, but a Jew." It was not necessary to make corrections to an important document and the passportist added “Jewish” to the word “Indei”. So the eyes of Yakov Yakovlevich shone with some kind of good expectation of a miracle from science, life, man. When his article on the connection of the constitution of the human body with his character entered the “science and life”, I read it before he saw the article.

So much is written about the boys! There is also pride in it that Charles Snow notes in the characters of scientists analyzed by him in the novel “The Case”. But the envy of the black snake lies in the dark corners of the soul. And nearby Debets was engaged in science. ” Nicholas Nikolaevich was undoubtedly fewer ambition than his friends, comrades. He said about his position as the head of the sector that at the Academy she was not so big.

You can’t compare this with the reaction of S. Tolstov, who, when he was elected a corresponding member, and not an academician, congratulated one employee of the institute, he indignantly replied: “Are you kidding me?! In the formation of the thinking of Nikolai Nikolaevich, his work in the traditions of the Moscow Anuchin Ethnographic School played an important role. Here I would like to talk about some meetings with its founders, which belonged to Viktor Valerianovich Bunak.