Veselovskii Konstantin Stepanovich

(1819 - 1901). He graduated from the course at the Tsarskoe Selo Lyceum, he served in the Ministry of State Property. In 1852, Mr.. Academy of Sciences, was elected in Associate of statistics and political economy, in 1855, Mr.. - In the extraordinary, and in 1859, Mr.. - In the ordinary academics. From 1857 to 1890. was Permanent Secretary of the Academy. Since 1857. edited the Journal of the Ministry of State Property. He owns more than 120 works. Chief among them for statistics: "Economic-statistical atlas of European Russia" (1851, 3rd edition 1857) translated into French. "Statistics of real estate in St. Petersburg - the first experience of research in this area, it touched upon the sanitary conditions of workers and the poorer classes of the population, . what the book was temporarily withdrawn from circulation, "Experiments moral statistics Russia,
. I. Researches about suicide "(" Journal of the Ministry of Internal Affairs ", . Part 18, . 1847), "The effect of seasons on human health and life" ( "Journal of the Ministry of State Property, . Part 23), "Review of action of the Department of Agriculture and sketch of the main branches of rural industry in Russia in 1844 - 1854 years" (St. Petersburg, . 1855),
. On climate Veselovskii wrote extensive work on the climate of Russia "(1857). A number of monographs on the climate of individual localities, based on organized Veselovsky observations, published in the Journal of the Ministry of State Property in Studies of the Academy of Sciences ". Veselovskii was also the first time, soil map of European Russia "in 1855, Mr.. Work on economic issues: "The doctrine of free trade in England (in the Journal of the Ministry of State Property, . Part 17), "The beginning and the gradual transformation of the land tax in Russia" (in the Journal of the Ministry of State Property, . Part 1st),
. Many wrote Veselovsky also on the history of the Academy of Sciences. A detailed list of works Veselovskogo cm. "Proceedings of the Imperial Academy of Sciences", t. XV, N 5.