Nikolai Petrovich Rychkov (1746–1798) - Russian traveler and geographer, organizer of Russian sericulture . Adjunct of the Imperial Academy of Sciences , member of the Free Russian Assembly and the Free Economic Society . The second son of academician P.I. Rychkov .
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In 1769 and in 1770, Captain Rychkov took part in the Pallas expedition, traveled to most of the provinces of Kazan, Orenburg, Ufa, Vyatka and Perm and compiled their description, printed in 1770–72. academy under the title: “Journal or daily notes of Captain Rychkov’s travel to different provinces of the Russian state” [1] . In 1772, the Academy of Sciences also published another work by N. P. Rychkov: "Daytime notes on a trip to the Kirghiz-Kaysak steppe in 1771."
Since 1772, N. P. Rychkov was "the chief director of the newly-built silk factories there on Akhtuba." In 1780 he received the rank of court adviser, in 1784 he was a college adviser and the next year he handed over the directorship to I. I. Ogarev. In 1787, he participated as an adviser and expert in the case of bribery of the Saratov governor Polivanov .
In 1793, academician Pallas found his friend Rychkov in the same rank as a college adviser on his estate near Tsaritsyn . Rychkov, like 20 years ago, was a company to an academician on the study of the Akhtuba Valley. In 1797, it was planned to appoint him again the director of the Akhtubinsk silkworm , but death interrupted his activities somewhere at the turn of 1797-1798. Instead, Moscow satirist Nikolai Ivanov Strakhov went to Akhtuba.
Notes
- ↑ History of the Orenburg Region: primary sources Archived May 12, 2014 on the Wayback Machine , copyrighted by Sergei Rakovsky, with reference to the scanned version Archived on July 2, 2013. provided by Alexander Iskovsky
Sources
- A.A. Klushin. “The History of Akhtuba Sericulture” (2012).