Ethnographer and writer, inspector of public schools in the Vitebsk province; with the assistance of school-teachers and teachers and others gathered a rich ethnographic material, published by him in the 80s.
Background
Ye.Ramanau was born in the town of Belitsa of the Mahilyou Province (now it is within the city of Hoinel) to an Ixnirgeois family. Having graduated from a progymnasium in Hoinel, he prepared independently for an examination for the status of a public school teacher, passed it successfully and started to work as teacher in various places of Belarus, where he was collecting ethnographic.
Education
Having graduated from a progymnasium in Hoinel, he prepared independently for an examination for the status of a public school teacher
Career
He prepared independently for an examination for the status of a public school teacher, passed it successfully and started to work as teacher in various places of Belarus, where he was collecting ethnographic- material anti studying thoroughly the language, tangible and intangible culture of the Belarusian people. In 1917, the Russian Academy of Sciences assigned Ye.Ramanau to do ethnographic research in Southern Caucasus, and he moved to Stavropol. During hard times of revolutionary transformations he did not discontinue his research, dreaming to return to Belarus.
Ye.Ramanau left a considerable heritage. In the field of Belarusian linguistics it is a comprehensive description of Belarusian patois, the first attempt of their classification, the study of place-names, which, in Ye.Ramanau’s opinion, were valuable sources of information on the territories of initial settling of tribes. In a report to the Russian Geographic Society in 1981, Ye.Ramanau provided information on his studies of the language of the Belarusian Gypsies.
In 1881 the first edition of his Manual of Russian Grammar, written for Belarusian students, came out in Vilna (Vilnius). The textbook was re-published in Moscow (188.5), in Hrodna (1895) and in Mahilyou (1900).
Thanks to Ye.Ramanau there were published for the first time literary texts like The .Vole by Stephan liatory, dated March 1, 1581, given to Vasiliy X emir a to Prove His Ownership Rights for the Villages of Holovenchitsy, Teploye and Lubany* (1899), The Collection of Belarusian Charms of the Early 19th century (1900), Ancient Russian Proverbs (1910).
With Ye.Ramanau’s active participation, etiinographic museums in Vitsebsk, Mahilyou and Vilna were established and ethnographic, archaeological exhibitions were organised. His archaeological and ethnographic finds can be seen nowadays in the collections of famous museums: the Hermitage, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, History and Ethnography Museum of Lithuania. That was the result of his activities as a full member of the Russian Geographic Association (since 1886; from 1910 Ye.Romanov was the head of the ethnography and archaeology section of North-Western department of that Association); of Moscow Association of Amateurs of Natural History, Anthropology and EthnographyCsince 1888); of Moscow Archaeological Association (since 1890).
Religion
His writings in 1897 based Mogilev Church and the Archaeological Museum, which, together with the funds of the museum fund became the basis for the creation of the province with the provincial statistical committee, now - Mogilev Regional History Museum named Romanov.
Politics
Occupying a modest post of inspector of schools Mogilev province, Romanov has achieved outstanding success as a scientist and public figure.
Views
As a figure of national scale, Romanov was well known in academic circles and among the general public of the Northwest Territory. His achievements have been repeatedly high awards:. Gold medal of the Russian Geographical Society, the silver medal of Moscow Society of Natural History, Anthropology and Ethnography, inscribed silver medal, etc. Among the contemporaries difficult to find a person at a greater versatility and scope of scientific activity.
Personality
All his multifaceted scientific activity was aimed at studying the original national culture of the Belarusian people, in the first place, Mogilev Dnieper. It is here that the formation of Romanov held as a scientist and public figure. Mogilev period (1895-1906) of his scientific activity is the most fruitful. They were the first archaeological map of the Mogilev province, has not lost its scientific significance so far been drawn up. Explore the numerous archaeological sites and Dnieper Posozhya, conducted an archaeological study of the settlement and zamchischa in Mogilev, mounds in New Bykhov, Lysina Mogilev province. He gathered information on more than a thousand settlements (fortified settlements of the early Iron Age and the Middle Ages) in the territory of Belarus.