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Sergey Vasilevich Maksimov
Сергей Максимов
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Born in Moscow. He studied at Moscow University and Medical and Surgical Academy. In 1850-1851 he published a number of translations and compilations anonymously. In 1855, Maximov walked around the Vladimir province, then visited the Nizhny Novgorod and Vyatka provinces, making one of the first experiments of direct study of folk life. The result was a series of essays that later compiled the book “Forest wilderness” (1871). When the naval department organized a number of ethnographic expeditions
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Born in Moscow. He studied at Moscow University and Medical and Surgical Academy. In 1850-1851 he published a number of translations and compilations anonymously. In 1855, Maximov walked around the Vladimir province, then visited the Nizhny Novgorod and Vyatka provinces, making one of the first experiments of direct study of folk life. The result was a series of essays that later compiled the book “Forest wilderness” (1871). When the naval department organized a number of ethnographic expeditions (1855), Maksimov got the North; he went to the White Sea, reached the Arctic Ocean and Pechora and published in magazines a number of articles that then made up the famous book “Year in the North” (1859). The Maritime Department instructed Maximov to go to the Far East, to explore the newly acquired Amur region. This journey was the subject of a new series of articles included in the book “To the East, a trip to the Amur in 1860-61 years” (1864). In 1861 he published the book “Stories from the history of the Old Believers.” “Prisons and exiles” (secret ed.), “Siberia and hard labor” (1871). Commanded by the Geographical Society to the north-western region, Maximov traveled to the Smolensk, Mogilev, Vitebsk, Vilna, Grodno, Minsk provinces and published his observations in the book "Walking Russia for Christ's sake" (1877).In 1873, Maximov published a book: "The Kul of Bread and Its Adventures", in 1890 a great work "Winged Words" was published; in 1899 the book "Unclear Power" appeared. In 1900, Maximov was elected to honorary academicians. In 1908-13, a collection of works by Maximov was published in 20 volumes.