Kaygorodov Dmitry Biography
Kaigorodov Dmitry Nikiforovich in the beginning he followed the path of a military career, but in 20 years he came across a book by A. In the fall of G. Returning from abroad in the city of the country, D. Kaygorodov as a professor of forest technology little. In the city of Kaygorodov was not a member of any environmental societies of Russia in the early twentieth century. As he himself admitted, he suffered in every possible way any public or administrative work.
At the same time, its influence on the development of the environmental movement in the Russian Empire is huge. He is one of the authors of the first articles in Russia in the defense of birds published, as a rule, in popular newspapers and magazines. Repeatedly raised the scientist and the issues of preserving the forest. But the main significance of his activity, of course, is that he revealed the beauty of his native nature to the Russian public public, lit interest, curiosity in it.
Kaygorodov is one of the founders of the ethical and aesthetic direction in the domestic environment. At the turn of the two centuries, probably, there was no scientist-symbol in Russia who would have paid the attention of their readers and listeners to natural aesthetics. One of his first lectures, given in the city, he is the author of several popular articles where he explores the issue of displaying a beautiful landscape in painting.
But the top of the work of D. Tchaikovsky shows what a great role in human life a strongly developed sense of nature can play. This feeling, along with a religious sense with which it is closely related, is born to every person, at least sometimes in an infancy, like any other feeling, it can be educated and developed. One of the first in Russia D. Kaygorodov raised the question of the need to drive schoolchildren instead of sitting in stuffy classes in natural science lessons on excursions to nature.
The excursion method proposed by him, as well as the upbringing of natural beauty, had a great influence on Russian pedagogical thought in particular, on B. Kaygorodov, a compiler of many reader for reading about nature. As an outstanding phenologist, D. Kaygorodov created a huge network of correspondents in Russia, attracting a large number of diverse people to observations of nature, which also contributed to the manifestation of interest in their native nature.
Kaygorodov was an opponent of materialistic ideas, an anti -Darvinist, a deeply religious person, specially engaged in the study of theological literature. He was involved in the compilation of the natural science program for three elementary grades by the personal desire of King Nicholas II, who appreciated him as a tsarist family educator. Turning away from nature, we lost health - physical and spiritual.
It is necessary to bring the overgrown generations in nature, cultivating in them love for it. It is necessary to cultivate at school not a dead science of nature, but a living love of nature and God's creations that constitute it. However, due to the fact that the scientist was related to the education of the royal family, his views in Soviet times were recognized as reactionary, and the books were not reprinted.
Another reason was that many works of D. Kaigorodov, especially his anthology for reading about nature, contained the idea of God in nature, which contradicted a materialistic approach to nature. D. Kaygorodov died on February 11, Literature Kaygorodov D. Krasnolesye, St. Petersburg. Chernolesyse, St. Petersburg. Forest Journal, Prince. New Time, January - February?
New time, April. The benefits and harm of birds, table, 1 p. Bulletin of gardening, fruiting and gardening, April, p. Toy, December -?
New time January -? New time, October -? New time September -? Explanatory text and tables of Fürst, 8 pp. Tchaikovsky and nature. Biographical essay, St. Petersburg, 46 pages of Kaygorodov, on different topics, mainly pedagogical, St. Petersburg, pp. New time May -? Friendship with nature, St. Petersburg. Memory of D. Kaigorodov,, Leningrad, 37 pp. Acceleration L.