Brief biography of Mozhaisky

Ivan Ivanovich Rolzunov Civil activity was outside the usual maritime service, Mozhaisky finally arranged his personal life. He retained the military rank, but in the civil service he began his career as a candidate of a world mediator in Gryazovts, Vologda Oblast. For some time he lived here, but after the death of one of his brothers he moved to Vinnitsa, to manage his estate.

For the first time left without a senior position, Mozhaisky began to look for a hobby. And he found him in aircraft industry. Dreaming to create his own aircraft, he studies drawings and engineering. Conducts a study of the anatomy of birds, buying up shot game by local peasants. In Vinnitsa, Alexander’s civil career continued. He received the position of district justice of the peace.

And here, again feeling the power, began to actively abuse it. A stream of complaints about Mozhaisky himself, from peasants and servants, outraged by his severe disposition, did not run out of the court. But, when considering cases, Alexander Fedorovich invariably declared complaints to the slanderers. The first experiments of the launch of Mozhaisky aircraft began the first experiments of the launch of aircraft in Vinnitsa.

He constructed unusual air snakes, covering them with feathers of birds in the hope of improving aerodynamics. True, the desired effect did not achieve. But rabbit skins helped to improve the flight properties of snakes. The first successful launch took place from the top of Mount Kumovskaya. And the designed aircraft already had a fuselage, acceleration wheels, and a pilot sitting.

True, he was not designed for a long flight. But a couple of tens of meters could spend, breaking away from the ground. During the second launch, the device crashed. And Mozhaisky temporarily postponed his aircraft design planes, which were impossible to implement in the village. In the year, Alexander Fedorovich returned to Petersburg. And then he entered the naval service again, but already as a teacher in the Sea Cadet Corps.

At the same time, in private, Mozhaisky continued his experiments. True, with miniature models equipped with motors. They were quite successfully tested. They came off from the ground even with a load.

Based on these experiments, Mozhaisky made engineering calculations for the construction of a real prototype. The drawing of the first Mozhaisk aircraft for the implementation of further intentions, Alexander Fedorovich turned to the military ministry for allocation. Having examined its calculations, the responsible persons issued an approving verdict. Rules were allocated for experiments.

Mozhaisky spent them in 2 years, but in his work he did not advance too much. He requested additional funds, but did not receive them from official sources. But I found private sponsors. But there were simply no mechanisms needed in the power of mechanisms in the Russian Empire. It was necessary to order compact steam engines in Germany. By the year, Mozhaisky was finally resigned with the rank of captain 1 rank, and was able to surrender to his unusual hobby.

In the military field in the Red Selo, near the Duderhof station, large -scale construction was launched. In the year, the aircraft was assembled. Its dimensions made a strong impression - a fuselage 15 m long crowned 2 twelve meters. This makhina kg weighed, and great doubts arose in her ability to break away from the earth. The tests of the year only confirmed this. During acceleration, the aircraft tilted, breaking the wing according to some evidence, this happened after separation from the ground.

Mozhaisky did not find new experiments anymore. But he managed to go down in history as one of the world's first creators of a field aircraft. There is not so much personal life about the personal life of the famous sailor. He entered into marriage in the year, married Lyubov Kuzmina, a seventeen -year -old girl of noble descent. The couple settled on the estate of the wife, in the Vologda region.

In the year, the couple had a first -born, son Alexander, named after his father. The second child, Nikolai, was born in the light. A month after the extremely heavy birth, the wife of Alexander Mozhaisky died. He remained a widower with two small children in his arms. The death of Alexander Mozhaisky died in April, from pneumonia, at the age of 65. Rear Admiral was buried in the Smolensk cemetery in St.

Petersburg. His sons tried to sell the monument to Alexander Mozhaisky to sell the aircraft from his father to the military department. But they were not interested in such an acquisition. As a result, the device went to the scrap metal when it was required to hastily remove it from the flight field.