Background
Vasily Vasilievich Bervi-Flerovsky was born on April 28, 1829, in Ryazan', Russian Federation. His father Wilhelm (also Vasily Fedorovich; 1792-1859) was a Russified Englishman, a professor of physiology at Kazan University.
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Vasily Vasilievich Bervi-Flerovsky was born on April 28, 1829, in Ryazan', Russian Federation. His father Wilhelm (also Vasily Fedorovich; 1792-1859) was a Russified Englishman, a professor of physiology at Kazan University.
The childhood of Bervi-Flerovsky passed in the estate of his father in the Buguruslan district of the Samara province and in Kazan, where he graduated from high school in 1845, and in 1849 the law faculty of the university.
Vasily Vasilievich made his debut with the story "V glushi", in which he described the life of serfs. He called his first published "Ocherk sudebnogo upravleniya v Anglii". This and other law review articles 1859-1860 were successful. The Kharkov and then Saint Petersburg University offered him a professorship. An employee of the magazines "Delo", "Slovo", "Otechestvennyye zapiski". In the early 1890s, Vasily Vasilievich spent some time in exile in London, where he collaborated with the Free Russian Press Foundation, which published several parts of the "Azbuka sotsial'nykh nauks" and the memoirs "Tri politicheskiye sistemy".
Vasily Vasilievich moved to Donetsk to his son Fedor, who worked as a doctor. He lived there from 1897 to 1918 (until his death). There he wrote "Kritika osnovnykh idey yestestvoznaniya" (published in 1904) and "Kratkaya avtobiografiya".