Nikolay Gavrilovich Bogoslovskiy was a prose writer, presbyter, local historian, and archeologist. He was noticed for his collection of church antiquities, which he gave to the Novgorodskiy Museum. Nikolay for his work received the gratitude of the emperor and cash awards.
Background
Nikolay Gavrilovich Bogoslovskiy was born on March 28, 1824, in the family of a priest (Gavril Bogoslovsky) in the Monastery of Saint John the Theologian. His father served as a priest in the 3rd district of military settlements, whose headquarters was located in Krechevitsy.
Education
Nikolay Gavrilovich first graduated from the Novgorod district school and in 1839 entered the Novgorod-based Theological Seminary. In the seminary, along with the subjects of the theological course, there were medicine, rhetoric, poetics, and physics. He also learned church archeology.
Career
In 1848 Nikolay Gavrilovich was ordained a priest. He had been a priest of the house church of Princess Vasilchikova since 1891 and at the same time taught the Law of God at the Sergievsky Parish Lancaster School.
In 1863 Nikolay Gavrilovich was transferred as a supernumerary priest of the Znamensky Cathedral in Novgorod, in the same year he was appointed secretary of the Novgorod Provincial Statistical Committee. Working in the statistical committee, he developed his own province research programs. Nikolay Gavrilovich traveled annually to several counties to collect a variety of statistical and historical materials.
His first book edited in the 1860s. In the following years, Nikolay Gavrilovich published some new books. Most of them concerned the history of military settlements as well as Novgorod antiquities, history and many problems of his time.
One of his favorite businesses was archaeological excavations in various places in the province. In 1863, Nikolay Gavrilovich explored an ancient building in Novgorod on Rogatice street and finished to dug a mound in the village of Volotovo. In 1865 he collected church antiquities, which he gave to the Novgorodskiy Museum.
In 1878, Nikolay Gavrilovich was forced to resign as Secretary of the Statistical Committee.