Drashusov Alexander

Born in 1816, Mr.. After 2 years after graduating from Moscow University, was sent abroad, where he stayed for about 21 / 2 years, engaged in astronomy and physics. Returning in 1840, Mr.. Moscow University, took as Adjunct, Department of Astronomy. In 1851, Mr.. entirely replaced Perevoshchikova. He was also engaged by observations at the university observatory, which, when it was greatly expanded. On behalf of the Emperor's Russian Geographic Society, . summer 1847, . did chronometric trip in Vladimir Province, and the results outlined in his master's thesis "On the determination of geographic locations with nocturnal tube and a chronometer",
. His article, scientists are scattered in many special editions. Drashusov translated, among other things, the Russian language well-known work D. Herschel's Outlines of Astronomy ". Died in 1890