Monday, 8 February 2016

Dmitri Mendeleev

DIMendeleevCab.jpgMendeleev was born in the village of Verkhnie Aremzyani, near Tobolsk in Siberia, to Ivan Pavlovich Mendeleev and Maria Dmitrievna Mendeleeva (née Kornilieva). His grandfather was Pavel Maximovich Sokolov, a priest of the Russian Orthodox Churchfrom the Tver region.[5] Ivan, along with his brothers and sisters, obtained new family names while attending the theological seminary.[6] Mendeleev was raised as an Orthodox Christian, his mother encouraging him to "patiently search divine and scientific truth."[7] His son would later inform that he departed from the Church and embraced a form of deism.[8]

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