Likhachev Andrey Fyodorovich

Andrey F. Likhachev - historian, collector (1832-1890 gg.) - Born in s.Nikolskoe Polianka a family of nobles Kazan province. He received education at home, he graduated from Kazan University. Several years work as an official, and then decided to fully surrender the favorite business-collecting.
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. Collection of paintings, antiquities, ethnographic objects, coins and medals after the death of AF Likhachev was purchased from the widow of his brother Ivan Fedorovich (vice-admiral of the fleet Rossiyskogo) and donated to the city
. On its basis in 1895. was founded the city of Kazan Scientific and Industrial Museum im.A.F.Lihacheva. Before the revolution, all the collections AF Likhachev kept under the established order of the collector.
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. After the revolution the collection of AF Likhachev were mixed with the basic foundation, and the library and the manuscripts submitted to the Kazan University, and became part of the university library stock
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He graduated from the course at the University of Kazan. Likhachev, a collection of Oriental coins in too 10 thousand pieces, mainly from excavations and hoards found in the Kazan province (ancient city of Bulgar, etc.). Likhachev published several articles on the topic of "Memoirs of the Eastern Division of the Imperial Russian Archaeological Society" (on the Mongol coins, . on coins of the Bulgarian khans, . of Kufic coins, . on ancient coins, . spot within the soil on the "Volga Bulgaria, etc.),
. In the field of archeology to him belong research on the antiquities of the province of Kazan: "Domestic monuments Great Bulgaria" (1876), "Scythian Bilyarskoy mark on the ground", etc.