In January 1857 Edward Tsiolkovsky, the father of the future scientist, submitted his resignation, and by a decree of October 24 of the same year, ‘second lieutenant Tsiolkovsky was dismissed from service with the title changed to collegiate secretary’. However, a year later, he returned to service and settled in Ryazan, where his family followed him. It is known that in Ryazan the Tsiolkovsky family changed their place of residence several times. They lived in the house of the governorate secretary A. Sevastyanov on Malomeshchanskaya street (today Kudryavtseva Street; the house did not survive). In 1861, they bought their own wooden house on Priklonskaya Street. Later, they rented an apartment on Astrakhanskaya Street, then on VoznesEnskaya (house number 40) in the mansion of the actual state councillor Alexander KolEmin. The Tsiolkovsky family met him back in the village of Izhevskoye, that was close to one of the estates of the Kolemin family.
Edward Tsiolkovsky changed his place of employment several times. In 1868, the geodesic appraisal classes where he taught were closed and the father of the future scientist was left without a job. In the autumn of the same year, he went to VyAtka, where he was given the job of a head of a ‘desk’ in the forest department. His wife and children visited him the following spring.
The Tsiolkovsky family returned to Ryazan 10 years later, when the head of the family retired. The return did not bring much joy. Later in his autobiography, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky wrote: ‘In Ryazan I visited places where I used to live. Everything seemed very small, pathetic, soiled. The acquaintances got stumpy and aged badly. Gardens, courtyards and houses no longer seemed as interesting as before: the usual disappointment from the old places’. They settled in the house at SadOvaya, 7. Allegedly, this house belonged to the niece of Edward Tsiolkovsky, Polina Trubnikova. However, no documents have been found to substantiate this fact.
The relationship between Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and his father was complicated. Both had a hot temper. Over time, they began to live separately. The future scientist rented a room from public servant Palkin. And he spent the time before the teacher’s appointment in the village with landowner M. teaching his young children. The house on Sadovaya Street is now lost and is replaced by a false façade. It imitates the appearance of the house of the period when the Tsiolkovsky family lived in it.
Edward Tsiolkovsky changed his place of employment several times. In 1868, the geodesic appraisal classes where he taught were closed and the father of the future scientist was left without a job. In the autumn of the same year, he went to VyAtka, where he was given the job of a head of a ‘desk’ in the forest department. His wife and children visited him the following spring.
The Tsiolkovsky family returned to Ryazan 10 years later, when the head of the family retired. The return did not bring much joy. Later in his autobiography, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky wrote: ‘In Ryazan I visited places where I used to live. Everything seemed very small, pathetic, soiled. The acquaintances got stumpy and aged badly. Gardens, courtyards and houses no longer seemed as interesting as before: the usual disappointment from the old places’. They settled in the house at SadOvaya, 7. Allegedly, this house belonged to the niece of Edward Tsiolkovsky, Polina Trubnikova. However, no documents have been found to substantiate this fact.
The relationship between Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and his father was complicated. Both had a hot temper. Over time, they began to live separately. The future scientist rented a room from public servant Palkin. And he spent the time before the teacher’s appointment in the village with landowner M. teaching his young children. The house on Sadovaya Street is now lost and is replaced by a false façade. It imitates the appearance of the house of the period when the Tsiolkovsky family lived in it.
