Nikolai Grigoryevich Pissarewski

Nikolai Grigoryevich Pissarewski

Nikolai Grigoryevich Pissarewski ( Russian: Николай Григорьевич Писаревский ; * November 1, ^July / November 13,  1821 ^{greg. In} the Podolia Governorate ; † June 20, ^July / July 2,  1895, ^greg. In St. Petersburg ) was a Russian officer and electrical engineer .

Life

Pissarewski came from a noble Podolian family . He graduated from the Polotsk Cadet School with honors and then studied at the Constantine Artillery School . He then served as a Praporschtschik in the 13th Artillery Brigade. 1843-1847 he studied in St. Petersburg at the General Staff Academy in the Department of Geodesy and Telecommunications . After graduation, he became assistant to the head of the geodesy department for military topography in the Army General Staff . Under his leadership, a group of officers produced the first military topographical maps of the strategically important western provinces for the Russian army, for which he was promoted and received several awards. In 1855 he became head of the photography department of the General Staff and organized the training of photographers . In 1858 he was sent abroad for further training in photographic art. He visited Berlin , London , where he Alexander Herzen met, and Paris , where he Physics - lectures at the Sorbonne heard. He also studied artistic photography . On his return he introduced photography to the military, for which he was honored and promoted to colonel in 1859 .

In 1860 Pissarewski organized the sociopolitical publishing cooperative Der Soccial Benefit , of which he was one of the directors. In 1861 he was commissioned to publish the War Ministry's official newspaper Russki Invalid , which became an important press organ and campaigned for reforms in the army and navy . In 1862 he spun off the unofficial section of the Russki Invalid in the form of the independent newspaper Gegenwartswort . His activities in this newspaper found resonance in Alexander Herzens Kolokol (The Bell) and in Nekrasov's satirical poems Two Publishers and Song of Argos . In 1863 Pissarewski was dismissed from the service, which led to a public outcry. In 1864 he returned to the military and resumed his journalistic activities.

In 1868 Pissarewski became inspector of the Russian Post Telegraph Office . He visited almost all provinces of the empire including Siberia . He headed the Telegraph Technical Committee. He dealt with questions of domestic production of cables . From 1877 he began to publish his thorough knowledge of electrical engineering , telegraphy and telephony and his more than ten years of experience in the form of articles and books. He placed particular emphasis on electrical measurements, for which he wrote the first Russian book. He directed the laying of the first submarine cable in Russia from Baku through the Caspian Sea to Krasnovodsk (1879) and from St. Petersburg to Kronstadt .

In 1886 Pissarewski organized the first technical college for the postal telegraph system in the Russian Empire and became its first director. In 1891 it became the St. Petersburg Imperial Electrotechnical Institute (ETI) Alexander III. with Pissarewski as director. After his death, Nikolai Nikolaevich Katschalow the Elder succeeded him.

Pissarewski was buried in the St. Petersburg Novodevichy Cemetery.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Писаревский Николай Григорьевич (accessed January 13, 2017).
2. ↑ Brockhaus-Efron : Русский инвалид (accessed January 13, 2017).
3. ↑ Санкт-Петербургский государственный электротехнический университет «ЛЭТИ» им. В.И. Ульянова (Ленина) (СПбГЭТУ "ЛЭТИ"): История СПбГЭТУ (accessed January 11, 2017).