Auction 59 Part 1
FIELD of MIRACLES with a psychiatric bias
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Minov V. the Results of anthropological researches among the Mordvins - Erzya. Notes of the Russian geographical ...
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Minov V. the Results of anthropological researches among the Mordvins - Erzya. Notes of the Russian geographical society on the Department of Ethnography; Vol. XI
Saint Petersburg. Tip. A. S. Suvorina. 1883. [2], IV, 559 p. In the font publishing cover. Size 16.5 x 26 cm. The copy is not split apart from the table of contents. Good condition. Pre-revolutionary press of The library of the scientific Committee of the Ministry of agriculture and state property. Minor losses of covers, seals, lettering on the cover and flyleaf.
Measurements were carried out in Nizhny Novgorod, Knyagininsky, Arzamas, Ardatovsky, Saransk, gorodishchensky, Korsunsky, Ardatovsky, Samara and Stavropol counties. From the content: Height, skin Color, Build, Color, density, appearance of hair, Color, shape and strength of vegetation of eyebrows and beard, eye Position, bridge of the Nose and brow, bulge, Mouth, Lips, Teeth, Nose, Forehead, Chin, face Shape, Ears, Hands, Legs, Weight, width of the cheekbones, Zygomatic index, Smallest frontal diameter, Head index, width of the nostrils, width of the bone, size of the trunk, double-Diagonal chord, etc.
Vladimir Nikolaevich Mainov (1845-1888) - Russian teacher, ethnographer, geographer, and writer.
From a noble family.
In 1865, he graduated from the Alexander Lyceum. He attended a course of lectures at the faculty of history and Philology of Saint Petersburg University.
He worked in the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of education.
He taught at the Helsingfors University, in the 2nd St. Petersburg cadet corps.
In 1875, he participated in the compilation of the "Ethnographic map of European Russia".
Full member of the Russian geographical society (RGS), Secretary of the RGS ethnographic Department.
As a popularizer of scientific knowledge and fiction Writer, V. N. Mainov is known under the pseudonym V. kornievsky.
He is the author of more than 40 scientific papers of historical and geographical content.
He was buried in the Usman district of Tambov province in the family estate.
