Tales of the Gypsies
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Tales of the Gypsies
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Based on folklore records, the book "Tales of the Gypsies" by the famous historian, writer, and educator Nikolai Albetovich Kun was first published in 1922. Since then it has not been reprinted and has become a bibliographic rarity. This edition includes both parts: "Beliefs of the Gypsies" and "Tales of the Gypsies". The text is preceded by a short introduction "An Evening in a Gypsy Tabor". The book reproduces drawings by L. M. Alexeevskaya, which decorated the 1922 edition.
In 1903 in Tver, in the women's teacher's seminary, there was a new teacher. A stately handsome man with a high forehead and chiseled profile told the future teachers about ancient history, about the gods of Olympus, about the heroes of Troy. He told them so enthusiastically, as if he himself had sat in the Greek amphitheater more than once, catching every word of another tragedy by Euripides. It seemed that Nikolai Albertovich Kuhn lived not in the early XX century, but at the time when the pythia of the Delphic oracle predicted the heroes of their future. The historian's granddaughter recalled that in her grandfather's apartment all the walls were hung with images of ancient gods and heroes. For Kuhn, these were not the shadows of the past, but bright living characters living somewhere near, nearby. To tell about them to his contemporaries and was the main thing in the life of Nikolai Albertovich. The future teacher and writer was born in Moscow in 1877. His mother Antonina Nikolayevna was a pianist, a pupil of Rubinstein and Tchaikovsky; his father Albert Frantsevich had a fine library. In 1903 Kuhn graduated with flying colors from the History and Philology Department of Moscow University, and he was offered to stay on to teach. Kuhn's freedom-loving nature prevented him - he participated in student speeches, and this was enough to close the doors of the capital's university for him. After working in Tver, Nikolai Albertovich returned to Moscow, where he began to lecture at various educational institutions. From 1911 to 1912 he taught classes on the history of ancient art for future Russian teachers abroad - in Roman museums. Soon after the revolution, Kuhn began teaching cultural history at the First Moscow Pedagogical Institute. He could also lecture on astronomy - Kuhn knew the starry sky perfectly well. From 1935 until the end of his life, Nikolai Albertovich was a professor at the Moscow Institute of Philosophy, Literature and History.
In 1903 in Tver, in the women's teacher's seminary, there was a new teacher. A stately handsome man with a high forehead and chiseled profile told the future teachers about ancient history, about the gods of Olympus, about the heroes of Troy. He told them so enthusiastically, as if he himself had sat in the Greek amphitheater more than once, catching every word of another tragedy by Euripides. It seemed that Nikolai Albertovich Kuhn lived not in the early XX century, but at the time when the pythia of the Delphic oracle predicted the heroes of their future. The historian's granddaughter recalled that in her grandfather's apartment all the walls were hung with images of ancient gods and heroes. For Kuhn, these were not the shadows of the past, but bright living characters living somewhere near, nearby. To tell about them to his contemporaries and was the main thing in the life of Nikolai Albertovich. The future teacher and writer was born in Moscow in 1877. His mother Antonina Nikolayevna was a pianist, a pupil of Rubinstein and Tchaikovsky; his father Albert Frantsevich had a fine library. In 1903 Kuhn graduated with flying colors from the History and Philology Department of Moscow University, and he was offered to stay on to teach. Kuhn's freedom-loving nature prevented him - he participated in student speeches, and this was enough to close the doors of the capital's university for him. After working in Tver, Nikolai Albertovich returned to Moscow, where he began to lecture at various educational institutions. From 1911 to 1912 he taught classes on the history of ancient art for future Russian teachers abroad - in Roman museums. Soon after the revolution, Kuhn began teaching cultural history at the First Moscow Pedagogical Institute. He could also lecture on astronomy - Kuhn knew the starry sky perfectly well. From 1935 until the end of his life, Nikolai Albertovich was a professor at the Moscow Institute of Philosophy, Literature and History.
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