Background
Nikolay Ivanovich Vtorov was born on September 9, 1818, in Samara, Russian Federation. He was the son of I. A. Vtorov.
Kazan gymnasium
Kazan University
ethnographer historian memoirist
Nikolay Ivanovich Vtorov was born on September 9, 1818, in Samara, Russian Federation. He was the son of I. A. Vtorov.
Nikolay Ivanovich graduated from the Kazan gymnasium (1834) and the historical and philological department of the philosophical faculty of Kazan University (1837).
Nikolay Ivanovich served in the office of the Kazan Governor-General and Assistant Librarian of the University. In the years 1843-1844 was the editor of the unofficial part of the Kazan Provincial Gazette, where he published his first articles.
In 1844 Nikolay Ivanovich moved to Saint Petersburg. Leaving Kazan, he donated his father’s library in favor of the city, which served as the basis for the city public library, opened in Kazan in 1864. Since 1847, he served in Voronezh as an adviser to the provincial government. He created a historical and ethnographic circle, which, among others, included M.F. De Poulet, A.P. Nordsteinch, and P.V. Malykhin. He contributed to the first publications of I.S. Nikitin, who dedicated several poems to him. Arranged at the Voronezh Statistical Committee "an archive of ancient affairs of the pre-Petrine time."
Since 1857, in Saint Petersburg, Nikolay Ivanovich served as vice director of the economic department of the Ministry of the Interior. He participated in the preparation of publications of the Ministry of Urban Settlements in the Russian Empire and The Economic Status of Urban Settlements in European Russia in 1861-1862. In 1861 and 1864 he was treated abroad and collected material for the book Comparative Review of Municipal Institutions of France, Belgium, Italy, Austria, and Prussia (1864).
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