Arsenyev, Konstantin Ivanovich

Konstantin Ivanovich Arsenyev was born in the Kostroma province into the family of a rural Orthodox priest .

In 1799 - 1806 he studied at the seminary, then went to St. Petersburg . After graduating from the Pedagogical Institute in 1810, Konstantin Ivanovich Arsenyev remained in it as a teacher of Latin and geography .

In November 1812, he came to Petrozavodsk together with other teachers and students of the Pedagogical Institute who were evacuated from the capital in connection with the Patriotic War of 1812 . Engaged in the history of the Olonets mountain factories .

Mason , in 1820, is dedicated in the St. Petersburg box of the “Chosen Michael”.

In 1819, Konstantin Ivanovich Arsenyev was appointed associate professor in the Department of Geography and Statistics at St. Petersburg University , but two years later he was dismissed from there by Runich because of his liberal views. Having reviewed the lectures of Arsenyev, published under the title “Inscription of Statistics of the Russian State”), and highlighting from them “harmful places” in which free labor exalts over labor of serfs, freedom of crafts is glorified, regrets the absence of codification of laws (there was no code yet) , denouncing the punishment of judges, etc., Runich found that these lectures constitute "a deliberate system of disbelief and rules malicious and destructive in relation to morality, thinking and the spirit of students", and ordered the rector of the university versity immediately suspend Arsenyev lectures. Together with other professors who had been subject to the same fate, Arsenyev was committed to a specially established “university court”. The matter could have ended very sadly for a scientist, but Arsenyev was saved by the high patronage of Grand Duke Nikolai Pavlovich . Konstantin Ivanovich Arsenyev was able to continue his teaching career at the Main Engineering and Mikhailovsky Artillery Schools, and soon he was even allowed to devote his “History of the Nations and Republics of Ancient Greece” named after the emperor ^[4] .

In 1824–28, Konstantin Ivanovich Arsenyev was the editor of the Commission for the drafting of laws. In 1828–1837, Arsenyev taught statistics, geography, and history to the future Tsar Alexander II , and in 1837 accompanied him on a trip to Russia and, together with V. A. Zhukovsky, petitioned him for the exiled A. Herzen ; "Incredibly good" was with Herzen in the future. In the same years (from 1832), Arsenyev was a member of the Council of the Ministry of the Interior , managed the work of the statistical committee of the Ministry of the Interior (1835-1853). Published the fundamental work "Statistical Essays on Russia" (1848). ^[5] Privy Councilor .

In 1845, he was among the founders of the Russian Geographical Society .

Konstantin Arsenyev retired in 1853 . In June 1864, he was seriously ill transported to Petrozavodsk - to the eldest son Yu. K. Arsenyev , who held the post of Olonets governor and lived with him until his death on November 29, 1865 . He was buried in Petrozavodsk, in Holy Cross Cathedral ^[6] .

The younger son of a scientist, K. K. Arsenyev ( 1837–1919 ), is a well-known Russian lawyer and public figure.

Konstantin Arsenyev is one of the creators of the Russian statistical system, based on statistical data they were offered several economic regionalization grids, reflecting the level of agricultural development in various regions of Russia (including depending on the proportion of free labor in relation to serf ). His experience in this field was used by many geographers of the 2nd half of the 19th - early 20th centuries. The textbook “Brief universal geography” written by Arsenyev remained the main textbook for this discipline for over thirty years and withstood 20 reprints. The historical works of Arsenyev on the beginning of the 18th century were written using previously closed archival materials to which he, thanks to his proximity to the imperial family, had access.

In the Holy Cross Cathedral of Petrozavodsk, on May 20, 2015, a memorial tablet of K. A. Arsenyev ^[7] was installed above the commemorative slab. In his honor in 1966, Arsenyev rocks were named on Queen Maud Land in Antarctica (coordinates: ), discovered and marked on the SAE map in 1961 ^[8] .

• The highest government officials since the time of Tsar Mikhail Feodorovich . - [ SPb. ], 1857. - [4], 40 p.
• Historical papers collected by Konstantin Ivanovich Arsenyev: with a portrait of K. I. Arsenyev / put in order and published by academician P. Pekarsky . - Printing house of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1872. - 507 p.
• The history of the peoples and republics of ancient Greece, set out by Konstantin Arsenyev. Part 1. The time from the first news of the Greeks to the end of the Peloponnesian War . - SPb. : Type of. Honey. dep. M-VA Int. Affairs, 1825.
• Brief universal geography. - 1818
  • Ed. 3rd, rev. and add. With four drawings depicting the systems of the world. - SPb .: Printed at the Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1823–1824
• Inscription statistics of the Russian state. Part 1: On the state of the people. . - SPb. : In the printing house of the Imperial Educational House, 1818. - [10], XXIII, [1], 245, [5] p.
• Inscription statistics of the Russian state. Part 2: On the state of the government. . - SPb. : In the printing house of the Imperial Educational House, 1819. - [4], 286, [2] p.
• Description of Olonets mining plants with a brief description of Olonets province // Proceedings of the Mineralogical Society. SPb., 1830. T. 1
• Hydrographic-statistical description of the cities of the Russian Empire // Journal of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. 1832-1834
• Hydrographic description of Russia // Journal of the Ministry of Internal Affairs., 1836
• Statistical essays of Russia . - SPb. : type of. Imp. Acad. Sciences, 1848. - [10], 503 p. - the essay was awarded the Zhukov Prize in 1849
• The reign of Catherine I. - SPb. : Type of. Imperial Acad. Sciences, 1856. - 91, [2] with.
• The reign of Peter II . - SPb. : type of. Imp. Grew up Acad., 1839. - 150, [1] p.
• On the control unit in Russia from the XV to the end of the XVIIIth century.
• Historical and statistical review of monetary affairs in Russia: Article by K. I. Arsenyev.
• Historical-statistical essay of popular education in Russia / [Soch.] (Acad. K. I. Arsenyev).

• Adrianov S. Arsenyev, Konstantin Ivanovich // Russian Biographical Dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.
• Arsenyev, Konstantin Ivanovich // Encyclopedic dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : in 86 tons (82 tons and 4 extra). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
• Arsenyev Konstantin Ivanovich // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 t.] / Gl. ed. A. M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978.
• Pekarsky P.P. On the Life and Works of K.I. Arsenyev // Collection of the Department of the Russian Language and Literature of the Academy of Sciences. - SPb., 1872. - T. IX
• Nikitin N. P. K. I. Arsen'ev and his role in the development of economic geography in Russia // Geography Questions. - Sat. 10. - Moscow, 1948
• Pashkov A.M.K.I. Arsenyev in Petrozavodsk // “North” . - 1997. - № 2-3.
• Serkov A. I. Russian Freemasonry. 1731-2000 Encyclopedic Dictionary. - M .: Russian Political Encyclopedia, 2001. - 1224 p. - 3 000 copies - ISBN 5-8243-0240-5 .
• Russian writers 1800-1917: Biographical dictionary / Editor-in-Chief: P. A. Nikolaev. - M .: The Great Russian Encyclopedia, 1989. - T. 1. - p. 107-108. - 672 pp., Ill. with.
• Kirikova O. A. Arsenev Konstantin Ivanovich // Scientists - founders of the St. Petersburg branch of the Archives of the Russian Academy of Sciences: A Brief Biographical Reference: A — B / Sc. ed. and comp. E. Yu. Basargina, I. V. Tunkina. - SPb. : Renome, 2018. - pp. 29-31. - 196 s. - (Ad fontes. Materials and studies on the history of science; v. 13). - ISBN 978-5-00125-105-7 . - DOI : 10.25990 / ze0m-ca72 .

• Scientist and teacher
• Biography on the St. Petersburg State University website
• Biography
• Privy Councilor Arsenyev - the symbol of Petrozavodsk
• Arsenyev readings
• Zhukovskaya, T. N., Rostovtsev, E. A. Arsenev, Konstantin Ivanovich // The Network Biographical Dictionary of Historians of St. Petersburg University of the XVIII — XX Centuries.