Peter Draganov Biography

Pyotr Draganov is a scientist, a teacher, a bibliographer for the summer of death, a significant contribution to the history of culture and education of Moldova of the late 19th - early 20th centuries. Draganov, author of historical, ethnographic, philological, biblological and critical works, he is the author of many works dedicated to Russian writers - L. Tolstoy, M. Lermontov, I.

Krylov, A. did not lose its significance by the scientific heritage of the scientist today. Speaking about the life and activities of P. Draganov, I would like to bring the words of the famous Moldavian writer and researcher Yu. Kolesnik: “The aforementioned author had the misfortune of being an encyclopedist, an unsurpassed scientist, a Slavic philologist, an ethnographer, a historian of literature- a phenomenon, and an extremely rare romantic peoples.

Apparently, this is the secret of oblivion P. Draganov, the one who in the city of Sobolevsky, that he “reads in almost all Western European languages, except for English, Finnish and Hungarian; On all twelve Slavic dialects, in the Romanian language and, of course, in Greek and Latin. ” It should be noted that the life and activities of the scientist are still poorly studied and covered in the scientific literature.

Recently, Gagauz scientists - S. Kuroglo, S. Bulgar, P. Pashaly, I. Kozmala, P. Chebotar, as well as some Moldovan researchers engaged in the study of his activities. And this is not by chance, P. Draganov was one of the first to study the origin of the Gagauz’s writing in the writings “Starting of the Gagauz literacy and writing in Bessarabia” and “Primary sources for the languor of the Bessarabian and Black Sea Gagauzes and their tasks on the Balkan Peninsula and in Malaya Azia”.

Both of these articles, unfortunately, who have not reached us, dated G. Scientific heritage of Peter Draganov is more scientific works, some of which remained in the manuscripts. Pyotr Danilovich Komrat was born, lived here certain periods of his life, was engaged in scientific and pedagogical activities. His daughter Angelina wrote: “By origin - Bulgarian, Russian education and education.

According to his father- from the settlers, the former colonists of the Novorossiysk Territory, in the mother- spiritual title. " In the city, he enters the Chisinau state gymnasium, at the end of the course in which he was accepted without exams in the 5th grade, the only Chisinau provincial gymnasium for the entire Bessarabia then. Continues to study at Kharkov, and then at St.

Petersburg University. The Bulgarian scholarship helped him to complete his education, which he received by contacting the Ministry of Education in Sofia at a critical moment. The Council of St. Petersburg Imperial University recognized Draganov as a worthy scientific degree of candidate of Slavic philology. Soon he leaves for work in the male gymnasium of the Bulgarian exarch in Soloniki Macedonia, where he also teaches at pedagogical courses.

Young, unusually erudite, he immediately plunged into the abyss of various classes ” - taught a number of disciplines: universal history, Old Slavonic and Bulgarian languages, Latin, geography. During the summer holidays, he travels a lot in Greece, Bulgaria, visited Athos and in Constantinople. Being in the Macedonian villages, he collected a rich linguistic and ethnographic material that he used to write work about Macedonia.

He is constantly overcome by the desire to settle in any scientific center. Supplies about the librarian transfer to the University Library of Novorossiysk, then he asks to transfer it to Odessa, then he is sent to the teacher of the real school to Sevastopol. Draganov submits to the director of the public library in St. Petersburg academician A. Bychkov with a request to hire him.

Soon he receives the place of the assistant librarian of the manuscript department, where he monitors the receipts of the literature “Galician -Russian, as P. himself writes here and his work“ Bessarabian ”was written - the first serious and scientifically based bibliography of literature on Bessarabia, published in Chisinau in the city, widely known to us in Moldova and Gagauzia, the scientist’s work available to us was the work of the scientist.

A rarity was stored in the department of a rare book of the National Library of the Republic of Moldova. Hajdeu with a circulation of specimens. During the work in St. Petersburg, P. Draganov also wrote a number of valuable works about Macedonia, marked by the Russian geographical society with a silver medal. The high authority of P. Draganov as a scientist proves his election in the city, he actively collaborated with periodicals of his time.

The works of the scientist were published in many leading Russian scientific and socio-political journals and newspapers-“New Time”, “Journal of the Ministry of Education”, “Historical Herald”, “Russian Herald”, “Literary Herald”, “St. Petersburg Vedomosti” and many others. Numerous life difficulties forced G. Draganov returned to Komrat, which was natural after countless wandering around the world.

It should be noted that Komrat is often mentioned in the work of the scientist, which is very important for studying the history of our city.In his work “Brief characteristics of administrative persons, honorary hereditary nobles and Bessarabia officials” The National Archive of the Republic of Moldova mention the “album of the views of Komrat” by S. Milkanov, which lists the city administrative institutions: the Komrat Zemstvo Hospital, the Komrat Prochik-School, the Komrat Silkovarian School, the Komrat Hospital for contagious to them.

There is also a mention of the Komrat millionaire of the Zanko-father, who made major donations to the local real school. During the period of work in one of the Chisinau gymnasiums, P. Draganov instituted a petition to the Council of the Geographical Society on the need to streamline the writing of the name Komrat. Draganov insisted on the option of writing through "o".

The Council of the Geographical Society on the question raised by Draganov, decided "to recognize the transcription of Komrat the only right." According to scientists involved in the study of his activities, as well as eyewitnesses, P. Draganov in Komrat was the richest library, archive and museum at that time, which are considered lost. Since he led a nomadic life, ligaments of books and manuscripts wandered from the city to the city.

There were millions of bibliographic cards in a systematic order and in all sectors of historical and philological sciences. There was a very rich museum that contained paintings, icon painting, engravings, reamps, watercolors, notes, albums and much more. In a difficult post-war period, due to a lack of paper, documents from the scientist’s archive were distributed to city institutions for conducting documentation.

I had to make sure that in E years collecting material about the work of cultural institutions for gg. In the funds of the Comrat archive, I managed to find 12 documents related to the archive of P. Draganov, most of which are Pyotr Danilovich’s personal correspondence with his children who lived in St. Petersburg. From them we see that children with great reverence and love treated their father and each letter invariably begins with the words "Dear Daddy ...".

Valentine wrote to his father weekly. Basically, the children informed his father about their studies, shared their impressions. In one of the letters, Valentine tells his father about the death of Mendeleev. Often the son sent his father the number of the newspaper "New Time", "Friend". With great excitement, I read letters written more than a hundred years ago. One of them was dated August 24.

Partially preserved a memorandum addressed by Draganov, Draganov, the director of public education and cults in which he writes: “Girlfriends prompted me, the lower signature will appeal to the Directorate of the Bessarabia with a respectful petition about permission to open a private secondary educational institution in my name, as the establishment of a completely new and so far in the same time.

Romania type ". Draganov proposes to open a private Russian gymnasium and with it the evening courses of foreign and local Bessarabian languages ​​for minorities of the population. The note was dated January 25, the percentage of the competent population in those years was quite low and this small sheet, which, by a happy chance, came into my hands, talks a lot about the efforts of Draganov aimed at developing education in our region.

Now these documents are stored in the National Archive of the Republic of Moldova. Many of these letters were published by Yu. Kolesnik in an article about P. Draganov, which was included in the collection “Actual Problems of the theory and Practice of Library Science” Chisinau, g. The Macedonian Academician Bolier Ristovsky, who corresponded with the Gagauz scientist S.

Kurollo and sent him a copy of the work of P. Draganov “On Macedonisms”, S-Petersburg, g. It was B. Ristovsky that has been preserved an interesting publication - one copy of the catalog with a description of the archive and the Draganov Museum. The idea to describe and release such an edition in the city of Bolgrad in the printing house of D. Shor called “Archive. The bookstore and the Draganov Museum in Comrat.

” In Komrat for many years there was a house where Draganov lived and in which his library was located, containing many rare and few printed books on the culture of the Balkan Slavs. In the 90s - the great -granddaughter of the scientist Lucia Matushevich Romania, who provided 6 sheets with a list of books from the Draganov library, visited Komrat.

Traces of the library itself are lost in the distant g. In the article “From the past city of Komrat”, the magazine “Viata Basarabiei” G.