Pisarevsky, Nikolai Grigoryevich

From the nobility of Podolsk province . After graduating with honors from the Polotsk Cadet Corps , he continued his studies at the Noble Regiment , then served in the 13th artillery brigade with the rank of ensign. From 1843 to 1847 he studied at the Department of Geodesy and Communications of the Military Academy of the General Staff .

After graduating from the Academy, he was appointed to the General Staff of the Army as an assistant to the chief of the geodesic department of military topographic affairs. Under his leadership, a group of officers for the first time in the history of the Russian army made military topographic surveys of the area of ​​a number of strategically important western provinces of the Russian Empire, topographic maps were compiled. For the successful completion of tasks he was promoted in rank and received a number of awards and highest thanks.

In 1855 N. Pisarevsky was appointed head of the photographic department of the General Staff of the army. He was engaged in organizing the training of specialist photographers. In 1858 he was sent abroad "to collect information on photographic art . " Visited London , Paris , Berlin ; He attended a lecture course in physics at the Sorbonne , met in London with Herzen , studied photography . After returning to Russia, he began to actively introduce photography into military affairs, for which he was awarded. In 1859 he was awarded the rank of colonel .

N. Pisarevsky was well known in the literary world. In 1860, he organized the Public Benefit Educational Publishing Partnership and was one of its first directors, and in 1861 received permission to publish the official newspaper of the Russian Ministry of War military department. The newspaper began to appear on April 11, 1861 under his editorship as a socio-political publication. "Russian disabled person" occupied a prominent place among the press of Russia. The idea of ​​the need for comprehensive reforms in Russia, especially in the army and navy, was widely propagated on the pages of the newspaper, and warm sympathy was expressed for peasant reform. Under the leadership of N. Pisarevsky, the newspaper acquired a pronounced bourgeois-liberal character.

In 1862, the Pisarevsky unofficial department of the Russian Disabled singled out the Modern Word newspaper as an independent newspaper. Pisarevsky’s activities in this newspaper found a response in Herzen’s “ Bell ” and in the satirical poems of N. A. Nekrasov “Two Publishers” and “Song of Argus”.

In 1863, Pisarevsky was dismissed from service, which provoked a public outcry. In June 1864 he returned to the army and resumed active journalistic activities.

In 1868-1885 - Inspector of the Telegraph Office. He visited almost all the provinces of the empire, including Siberia , headed the Technical Committee of the Telegraph Department, and was engaged in the production of domestic cable . In-depth knowledge in the field of electrical engineering , telegraphy, telephony and the engineering experience gained over 10 years enabled Pisarevsky, beginning in 1877, to regularly publish his articles and practical manuals on telegraphic and telephone affairs, as well as to prepare a number of books and articles on physics, where Its role in telegraphy is shown. He paid special attention to electrical measurements (the first book in Russia on electrical measurements was written precisely by N. G. Pisarevsky).

N. G. Pisarevsky wrote about his work this way:

He audited state-owned telegraph departments of almost the whole of Russia, published a manual on the installation of a telegraph line, got acquainted with telegraph affairs in Paris, London, supervised the work on laying the cable from St. Petersburg to Kronstadt and from Baku to Krasnovodsk

In 1886-1895, he was the organizer and director (1886-1891) of the Technical School of the Postal and Telegraph Office, transformed into the Electrotechnical Institute, the first director of ETI (now St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University "LETI" ) (1891-1895). ^[one]

The author of a number of textbooks and scientific and technical manuals.

• "Comprehensible Physics" (1852, the second, corrected and supplemented edition in three parts in 1854 (part 1), in 1856 (part 2) and in 1858 (part 3))
• "Textbook of Physics for Gymnasiums" (et al. 1859)
• "Comprehensible mechanics applied to agriculture, industry and home economics, compiled at the rate of Delon with changes, additions and notes" (1854)
• "Guide to the installation of overhead telegraph lines" (1878)
• "Phones and their practical application", (8 editions, 1881)

He was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery in St. Petersburg.

• Pisarevsky Nikolay Grigorievich (1821-1895)