A new page in the life of Georgy Chicherin began in St. Petersburg.
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For me personally, he wrote in 1924, the most indelible memories were generated by old Petersburg, that laboratory where I formed with all my thoughts and aspirations, where all the grandiose and innumerable contradictions of our era surrounded me. Its houses and streets, its sky and the wide Neva - all this became, as it were, particles of myself. There is no corner in it that would not be close to me.
Georgy Chicherin
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Having moved from the Tambov province, ‘the world of provincial fields and quiet Palestinians’. Chicherin did not immediately get used to the new situation. The first two years he spent mostly alone. Rich relatives lived in the city, the young man visited the family of Aleksandra Chicherina’s aunt, the wife of famous courtier Emmanuil Naryshkin. However, the luxurious furnishings of that house oppressed him: “we were in the position of poor relatives among rich and noble relatives, which affected me in the most repulsive way.”
Having brilliantly graduated from high school, in 1891 Georgy Chicherin entered the Faculty of History and Philology of St. Petersburg University. An indelible impression on him was made by the lectures of Vasiliy Klyuchevsky, whose works on Russian history were a new word in historical science. They attracted him by an abundance of factual material, a vivid description of events, a subtle analysis of social and economic phenomena, accurate and figurative characteristics of historical figures.
Among the figures of the past, student Chicherin was most interested in Peter I. He wanted to understand whether the emperor acted on the basis of a conscious systematic idea of the cultural regeneration of Russia or whether his measures were dictated by military and financial needs. Having clarified that question for himself, Chicherin wrote: “The creation of the Academy of Sciences by Peter the Great was a clear manifestation of his conscious cultural and historical thought. The cultural break from Moscow Russia to Petersburg Russia peaked with the creation of a regulator of scientific thought, the Academy of Sciences.”
The young Chicherin’s scientific interests were not limited to history. He eagerly absorbed most varied impressions, studied languages up to Irish, antiquities up to hieroglyphs and cuneiform, oriental literature, listened to the lectures of lawyers, several natural scientists, political economy. I spent hours with friends in the public library.
In May 1895, Georgy Chicherin brilliantly passed his final exams and, by a decision of the test commission, was awarded a first degree diploma.
Having brilliantly graduated from high school, in 1891 Georgy Chicherin entered the Faculty of History and Philology of St. Petersburg University. An indelible impression on him was made by the lectures of Vasiliy Klyuchevsky, whose works on Russian history were a new word in historical science. They attracted him by an abundance of factual material, a vivid description of events, a subtle analysis of social and economic phenomena, accurate and figurative characteristics of historical figures.
Among the figures of the past, student Chicherin was most interested in Peter I. He wanted to understand whether the emperor acted on the basis of a conscious systematic idea of the cultural regeneration of Russia or whether his measures were dictated by military and financial needs. Having clarified that question for himself, Chicherin wrote: “The creation of the Academy of Sciences by Peter the Great was a clear manifestation of his conscious cultural and historical thought. The cultural break from Moscow Russia to Petersburg Russia peaked with the creation of a regulator of scientific thought, the Academy of Sciences.”
The young Chicherin’s scientific interests were not limited to history. He eagerly absorbed most varied impressions, studied languages up to Irish, antiquities up to hieroglyphs and cuneiform, oriental literature, listened to the lectures of lawyers, several natural scientists, political economy. I spent hours with friends in the public library.
In May 1895, Georgy Chicherin brilliantly passed his final exams and, by a decision of the test commission, was awarded a first degree diploma.
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