Ivan Timofejewitsch Savenkow

Student Ivan Timofejewitsch Savenkow ( IJ Repin , around 1870)

Ivan Timofeyevich Savenkov ( Russian Иван Тимофеевич Савенков * June 20 ^{. Jul} / 2. July  1846 ^greg. In Mariupol , † September 1 ^jul. / 14. September  1914 ^greg. In Krasnoyarsk ) was a Russian physics teacher , archaeologist and chess players .

Life

Savenkow came from a merchant family. In the late 1850s the family moved to Irkutsk . After attending the Irkutsk City Gymnasium, he began studying at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics at the University of St. Petersburg in 1865 , which he graduated in 1871.

Savenkov returned to Siberia and taught mathematics, physics and natural history at the Irkutsk grammar school. After the opening of the Krasnoyarsk Teachers' College in 1873, he became its director and headed it for 20 years. The experiences in his educational work have been the subject of several books. Savenkov's educational work was not printed in Soviet times. With his students, he carried out excursions in the vicinity of Krasnoyarsk, including what is now the Stolby nature reserve on the north-western edge of the Sayan Mountains . He created a topographic map of the area around Krasnoyarsk, which was then the basis for the later geologists of Siberia. During archaeological investigations on the Basaicha (tributary of the Yenisei ) in 1883 and 1884, he found Stone Age tools .

For Gennady Wassiljewitsch Yudin, Savenkov arranged together with Nikolai Nikitowitsch Bakai Yudin's extensive archive . When Judin had a special wooden building built for his huge library next to his dacha in Tarakanowka on Afontowa Mountain in Krasnoyarsk in 1884 , a kurgan was discovered. Savenkow examined the Kurgan intensively and checked 1500 Stone Age objects. For the first time he found tools for working with scrapers . He was excommunicated because of his archaeological research .

In 1884 Savenkov became a member of the East Siberian Department of the Russian Geographical Society and received 100 rubles for investigations into sites in the vicinity of Krasnoyarsk and rock art on the Mana and the Kolbe . In November 1884 he reported to the Geographical Society in Irkutsk, whereupon his research money was doubled. The main problem was the lack of skilled workers and books. The District Museum in Minusinsk sent him books on archeology. In July 1885 Ivan Dementjewitsch Tscherski came from Irkutsk for examinations on Mount Afontowa. In the same year Sawenkow carried out a 500 km research trip on the Yenisei and its tributaries. Savenkov presented the results of his research at the international anthropology congress in Moscow in 1892 , which made Afontowa Mountain famous worldwide.

In 1893 Sawenkow was transferred to Warsaw as an elementary school inspector . In 1901 he took a leave of absence and moved to Moscow. He then began to work as a manager for the gold industrialist Ivan Ignatievich Nekrasov in Kansk . From 1907 to 1911 he headed the district museum in Minussinsk and carried out archaeological studies in Khakassia and in Minussinsk Ujesd . In 1912 he returned to Krasnoyarsk because of the illness of his wife Ekaterina Ivanovna, nee Baturina. In Krasnoyarsk, Ekaterina Ivanovna was the first woman in civil service. Savenkov published a book on the performing arts on the Yenisei, for which he was elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences . In 1913 his wife died and he fell ill with typhus . The Russian Committee of the Academy of Sciences transferred him 800 rubles for studies in North and Central Asia. In the summer of 1914 he began further excavations on Mount Afontowa. He suffered a heart attack while working and died in hospital.

Savenkov had founded the Society for Dramatic Art in Krasnoyarsk . He was an actor and director at the Krasnoyarsk Theater. He played the city governor in Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol's auditor and the unfortunate in Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrowski's forest . He was a master at reciting and creating poems and songs for children.

During his studies in St. Petersburg, Savenkov founded a chess group in Krasnoyarsk in 1868. Within 4 years he had developed a telegraphic chess code to be able to hold chess tournaments of the groups in St. Petersburg and Krasnoyarsk. From November 1886 to May 1888 he organized such a tournament, which the Krasnoyarsk won with 1.5: 0.5. He had a lively correspondence with Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin . In 1893, Savenkov's proverbial statements on chess were published in Schachmatnoye Obosrenije . Through the mediation of the gold industrialist AP Kuznetsov, Savenkov received information from the ethnographer JK Jakowlew about chess playing among the small Soyot people in Buryatia , and the wholesaler GP Safyanov procured an incomplete set of chess pieces. Savenkow wrote a large essay on the game of chess among the Soyotes and other peoples in North and Central Asia, which appeared in 1905 in No. 1 of the Etnografitscheskoje Obosrenije . Some of Sawenkov's chess games were published in the International Chess Magazine , directed by Wilhelm Steinitz .

Savenkov had played sports : he was a swimmer , gymnast and the best marksman in town, so he made a significant contribution to the development of sports in Krasnoyarsk.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Штенберг Л. Я .: Иван Тимофеевич Савенков . In: Сборник Музея антропологии и этнографии. Т.3 . Petrograd 1916.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Enziklopedija Krasnojarskogo Kraja: Савенков Иван Тимофеевич (accessed on November 26, 2018).
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Memorialnye Doski Krasnojarja: Савенков Иван Тимофеевич (accessed on November 26, 2018).
4. ↑ Ауэрбах Н. К .: Первый период археологической деятельности И. Т. Савенкова . In: Ежегодник Государственного музея им. Н. М, Мартьянова . tape VI , 1928.
5. ↑ Юдин (Геннадий Васильевич) . In: Brockhaus-Efron . tape XLI , 1904, pp. 286–287 ( Wikisource [accessed November 26, 2018]).
6. ↑ Крогиус Н .: К истории шахмат в Сибири . In: Сибирские огни . No. 5 , 1961.