Berezin, Ilya Nikolaevich

Ilya Berezin was born on July 20, 1818 ^[4] at the Yugovsky State-owned factories ^{[4] of the} Perm district of the Perm province (now the village of South Perm district of the Perm region) in the family of a college secretary ^[4] . After home education, he received his initial education at a district school in Yekaterinburg , from where he was transferred by the auditor Professor G. S. Surovtsev to the Perm gymnasium for official maintenance ^[5] .

At Kazan University

At the end of the course, he entered Kazan University (1837) in the department of Oriental literature, which he graduated as a candidate , not yet reaching the age of 19 ^[5] . At the university, he worked diligently in the Arabic - Persian language under the guidance of Professor Fyodor Ivanovich Erdman .

At the end of the course in 1837, he was left with a candidate’s degree in the Eastern Department of the Faculty of History and Philology to prepare for the professorship, after which he made a trip to Astrakhan to get to know the life of the Persians and Tatars , and on his return to Kazan he defended his dissertation on the topic: "What contributes to the development of enlightenment and stops its progress in the Mohammedan powers."

In 1841 he received a master 's degree in oriental literature.

In 1842, I.N. Berezin, according to the plan and instructions of Professor Alexander Kasimovich Kazembek ^[3], was sent on a scientific trip for three years in Dagestan and the Caucasus , Arabia , Turkey , Persia and Egypt , where he studied languages, studied the modern life of peoples, literature and antiquities of eastern states.

Reports on his studies in the East during this time were published in the "Scientific Notes" of Kazan University for 1845-1846.

Returning to Kazan, Berezin from March 19, 1846 holds the position of professor at the Department of Turkish Language. Over the nine-year period of his work, he wrote a number of scholarly treatises and articles in Russian and French.

In the 2-volume “Library of Oriental Historians” (1850-1851), Berezin published the classic works “ Sheybani-name ” and “ Jami-et-Tevarih ”.

At Petersburg University

When at the beginning of the Crimean War, in 1855, the Faculty of Oriental Languages ​​was opened at St. Petersburg University , Berezin, together with A.V. Popov and V.P. Vasiliev , was invited to the post of full professor in the department of Turkish-Tatar literature. In 1870-1873, he served as dean of the faculty, and since 1871 he was an honored professor. On August 30, 1863, Berezin was promoted to full state councilor , and on January 1, 1885 - to privy councilor .

With the move to St. Petersburg, Ilya Nikolaevich took a direct part in journal literature, actively supplying it with popular articles about the East, mainly “Essays” from his travels of 1842–1845.

In addition to his Essays, he also placed many reviews and major critical articles on essays relating to the East, mainly in the Proceedings of the Eastern Branch of the Imperial Russian Archaeological Society , the Journal of the Ministry of Public Education , Herald of Europe , Domestic Notes and others ^[6] .

In 1864, Berezin defended his dissertation, "An Essay on the Internal Structure of the Dzhuchiev Ulus," which he submitted for the degree of Doctor of Oriental Literature. In the years 1872-1879. Berezin undertook the publication of the 16-volume " Russian Encyclopedic Dictionary " ^[7] . In 1883-1884 published two volumes of the New Encyclopedic Dictionary, which he wanted to make publicly available in price and brevity.

Ilya Nikolaevich Berezin died on March 22 (April 3), 1896 in St. Petersburg. He was buried in St. Petersburg at the Novodevichy Cemetery ^[8] .

• Order of St. Stanislav 2nd degree (1856).
• Order of St. Anne of the 2nd degree with the imperial crown (1867).
• Order of St. Vladimir 3rd degree (1871).
• Order of St. Stanislav 1st degree (1874).
• Order of St. Anne 1st degree (1878).

• Persian Order of Leo and the Sun , 2nd degree (1863).

In Kazan

• Turkish Grammar (1847)
• Description of Turkish-Tatar manuscripts stored in St. Petersburg libraries (1846-1849)
• Système des dialectes Turcs (1849)
• Traveling in Dagestan and Transcaucasia (1850)
• Library of Oriental Historians (1850-1851, 2 volumes)
• Khan labels (1850-1852)
• Traveling in the East (1849-1852, 2 volumes)
• Library of East Turks (1849-1854, 3 volumes)
• Traveling North Persia (1852)
• Recherches sur les dialectes persans (1853)
• Grammar of the Persian language (1853)
• Monograph of the Bulgar on the Volga (1853)
• About the Batu invasion of Russia (1853)
• Catalog des mémoires et des médailles du cabinet numismatique de l'université de Casan (1855)

In Petersburg

• Folk proverbs of the Turkish tribe (1856)
• Guide du voyageur en Orient. Dialogues arabes d'après trois principaux dialectes: de Mésopotamie, de Syrie et d'Egypte (1857)
• Collection of Oriental Chronicles (1858-1869, 6 volumes)
• The internal structure of the ulus of Dzhuchiev according to Khan labels, doctoral dissertation (1865)
• Turkish reader (1857-1878, 3 volumes)

Together with these separately published works, I.N. Berezin published many articles on the East in various periodicals. Especially vivid his essays appeared in the Moscow Gazette , as well as in the Russian Herald , where articles were printed:

• Ramadan in Istanbul (1856)
• Beiram (1856)
• Desert Scenes (1856, 1858, 1860)
• Underworld (1857)
• The Bliss of a Muslim (1867)

Among the latest works by I. H. Berezin, the Russian Encyclopedic Dictionary (1873-1882, 16 volumes) occupies a prominent place. ^[3]

• Berezin Ilya Nikolaevich // List of civilian ranks of the first three classes. Corrected on October 1, 1894. - SPb. : Printing House of the Governing Senate , 1894. - S. 344.
• Berezin, Ilya Nikolaevich // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
• Berezin // Small Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : in 4 volumes - St. Petersburg. , 1907-1909.
• Berezin, Ilya Nikolaevich // New Encyclopedic Dictionary : In 48 volumes (29 volumes were published). - SPb. , Pg. , 1911-1916.
• commons: File: Biographical Dictionary of ISPbU-1.pdf Biographical Dictionary of Professors and Teachers of the Imperial St. Petersburg University for the past third quarter of a century of its existence, 1869-1894]. - St. Petersburg: Printing house and lithography of B. M. Wolf, 1896. - T. I (A – L). - S. 47-48. - 419 p.
• Verkholantsev V.S. City of Perm, its past and present. - Perm, 1913

• Gusterin P.V. Ilya Nikolaevich Berezin - representative of the Kazan School of Oriental Studies
• Berezin, IN (Ilia Nikolaevich), 1818-1896 - books of I. Berezin in the Internet Archive
• Shaginyan A.K. Berezin Ilya Nikolaevich // Network biographical dictionary of historians of St. Petersburg University of the XVIII — XX centuries