Ashik Anton Baltazarovich

Serb born (born in 1802 in g. Ragusa), in 1812 A. moved with his father in Odessa and was sent to a merchant's office, but in 1817 he joined the Office of the Kherson Military Governor of Count Langeron. Since 1822 A. in the Commission, established in Kerch, for the production of barter trade with the Caucasian mountaineers. The company is collapsed in 1829, and Alexander, having served a year in the Caucasus, was appointed again in Kerch, where the mayor was a famous archaeologist Stemkovsky. Thanks to him and Blarambergu, director of the Kerch Museum, A. a passion for archeology and began the excavation of the surrounding mounds. The death of Blaramberga (1833) A. was appointed director of the Kerch Museum, 1839 A. elected a member of the Odessa Society of History and Antiquities. A. managed to do a lot of precious discoveries, to find a lot of things that have enriched the Imperial Hermitage Museum, for which he was repeatedly awarded. In 1853 A. was dismissed from the service when the museum moved to Odessa and was appointed librarian City Public Library, died in 1854. Separately issued him: "Kerch antiquities. About Pantikapeyskoy catacombs, . decorated with frescoes "(Odessa, . 1845); "Vosporskoe kingdom" - award-low Demidov Prize (3 tons, . Odessa, . 1848); "leisure hours with prisovokupleniem letters of Kerch antiquities" (Odessa, . 1850); "De la decouverte de deux statues antiques a Kertsche" (Odessa, . 1851),
. Furthermore: "Kerch catacombs" ( "Journal of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, 1845)," The recent archaeological excavations in the Kerch "(ibid., 1846)," Archaeological research on the Taman Peninsula "(ibid., 1847).