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Duff was the son of Colonel James Duff, a retired army officer living in Aberdeenshire, and Jane Bracken Dunlop.
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Years of Childhood Serge Aksakoff Translated from the Russian (Classic Reprint)
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Serge A ksakoff, the author of this autobiography, was born at Ufa, in the district of Orenburg, on September 20, 1791. His father held some office in the law-court of the town, and his grandfather lived in the country as the owner of large estates, to which A ksakoff ultimately succeeded. The Russians were then only settlers in the country, and the population consisted mainly of Tatars and a number of Finnish tribes often mentioned in this book. A ksakoff schildhood is here described down to the winter of 1799, when he went to school at Kazan. From school he proceeded to the university of the same city, and left it in 1807, when many of his class-mates were joining the Army to fight against Napoleon. He entered the civil service in 1808 and served, with some intervals, in various capacities until he finally retired in 1839. He married in 1816; and his two sons, Constantine and I van, both played a conspicuous part in the public life of Russia. He remained during his whole life a passionate lover of the country and of all country occupations and amusements. He died at Moscow, after a long and painful illness, on A pril 30, 1859. A ksakoff was always keenly interested in literature and wrote a number of books; but his reputation, which stands very high in Russia, depends mainly upon two volumes of Memoirs which he vrote at the end of his life. The first of these he called A Family History, and the second, which is here translated, Years of Childhood. (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original
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James Duff
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Fettes College.
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He was a Cambridge Apostle. Teaching Latin and Greek at Trinity, and also at Girton, was the main work of his life. And he is best known to classical scholars for what A. East. Housman praised as his "unpretending school edition" of Juvenal.
He was over forty years old when he taught himself Russian, in order to read in the original the novels of Tolstoy and especially Turgenev, which he had greatly admired in French translations.
They had five children: Lieutenant-General Alan Colquhoun Duff (1896-1973) who published books under the nom-de-plume "Hugh Imber". Sir James Fitzjames Duff.
Patrick William Duff (1901-1991), Regius Professor of Civil Law at Trinity College, Cambridge. Mary Geraldine Duff (1904-1995), principal at Norwich Training College, Norwich.
And Hester Laura Elisabeth Duff (1912-2001).
Duff died at the age of 79 at Cambridge.
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Years of Childhood Serge Aksakoff Translated from the Russian (Classic Reprint)
(Serge A ksakoff, the author of this autobiography, was bo...)
- T. LUCRETI CARI LUCRETIUS: DE RERUM NATURA LIBER QUINTUS V Edited with Introduction and Notes
- Lucan: Civil War (Loeb Classical Library)
- Satvrae XIV. Fourteen Satires of Juvenal
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Years of Childhood Serge Aksakoff Translated from the Russian (Classic Reprint)
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