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See also:PEESEMSKY, ALEXEY FEOFILACTOVICH (182o-1881) , See also:Russian novelist, was See also:born on his See also:father's See also:estate, in the See also:province of See also:Kostroma, on the loth/22nd of See also:March 1820. In his auto-See also:biography he describes his See also:family as belonging to the See also:ancient
Russian See also:nobility, but his more immediate progenitors were all very poor, and unable to read or write. His grandfather ploughed the See also:fields as a See also:simple See also:peasant, and his father, as Peesemsky himself said, was washed and clothed by a See also:rich relative, and placed as a soldier in the See also:army, from which he retired as a See also:major after See also:thirty years' service. During childhood Peesemsky read eagerly the translated See also:works of See also:Walter See also:Scott and See also:Victor See also:Hugo, and later those of See also:Shakespeare, See also:Schiller.,
See also:Goethe, See also:Rousseau, See also:Voltaire and See also:George See also:Sand. From the I facture of See also:felt, boots and See also:- METAL
- METAL (through Fr. from Lat. metallum, mine, quarry, adapted from Gr. µATaXAov, in the same sense, probably connected with ,ueraAAdv, to search after, explore, µeTa, after, aAAos, other)
metal wares.
gymnasium of Kostroma he passed through See also:Moscow University, See also:Pegau See also:grew up See also:round a monastery founded in 1o96, but does and in 1884 entered the See also:government service as a clerk in the not appear as a See also:town before the See also:close of the 12th See also:century. See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of the See also:Crown domains in his native province. Between Markets were held here and its prosperity was further enhanced 1854 and 1872, when he finally quitted the See also:civil service, he by its position on a See also:main road See also:running See also:east and See also:west. In the occupied similar posts in St See also:Petersburg and Moscow. His monastery, which was dissolved in 1539, a valuable See also:chronicle See also:early works exhibit a profound disbelief in the higher qualities was compiled, the Annales pegavienses, covering the See also:period of humanity, and a disdain for the other See also:sex, although he appears
to have been attached to a particularly devoted and sensible wife. His first novel, Boyarstchina, was forbidden for its unflattering description of the Russian nobility. His See also:principal novels are Tufak (" A See also:Muff "), 185o; Teesicha doush (" A Thousand Souls "), 1862, which is considered his best See also:work of the See also:kind; and Vzbalomoucheneoe more (" A Troubled See also:Sea "), giving a picture of the excited See also:state of Russian society about the See also:year 1862. He also produced a See also:comedy, Gorkaya soudbina (" A See also:Bitter See also:Fate "), depicting the dark sides of the Russian peasantry, which obtained for him the Ouvaroff See also:prize of the Russian See also:Academy. In 1856 he was sent, together with other
See also:literary men, to See also:report on the ethnographical and commercial I obtained See also:general See also:acceptance, and has been extended by many See also:condition of the Russian interior, his particular See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field of inquiry authors to include vein-rocks of similar structure and See also:geological having been See also:Astrakhan and the region of the See also:Caspian Sea. relationships, which occur with syenites, diorites and gabbros. His See also:scepticism in regard to the liberal reforms of the 'sixties Only a few of these pegmatites have graphic structure or mutual made him very unpopular among the more progressive writers intergrowth of their constituents. Many of them are exceedingly of that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time. He died at Moscow on the 2nd of See also:February 188r coarse-grained; in See also:granite-pegmatites the feldspars may be (See also:Jan.
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