165 years since the birthday of the founder of scientific horticulture, a teacher of botany and horticulture at the Uman School of Agriculture and Horticulture and the head gardener of the Tsaritsyn Garden Vasyl Vasyliovych Pashkevich (1857-1939)

165 years since the birthday of the founder of scientific horticulture, a teacher of botany and horticulture at the Uman School of Agriculture and Horticulture and the head gardener of the Tsaritsyn garden
Vasyl Vasylovich Pashkevych (1857-1939)

Vasyl Vasylovich Pashkevich (1857-1939) – founder of scientific horticulture, teacher of botany and horticulture at the Uman School of Agriculture and Horticulture and head gardener of the Tsaritsyna Garden, teacher and head gardener of the Imperial Nikitsky Garden (1892), senior gardener of the Imperial St. Petersburg Botanic Garden (1893), horticulture specialist at the Department of Agriculture (1894 ), head of the department of fruit growing until 1903, secretary of the Imperial Russian Society of Horticulture (1894-1904), and since 1912 – official of special assignments at the Chief Land Management and Agriculture Department of the VIR (since 1922).

He studied at the Minsk Theological Seminary and at the Natural Sciences Department of the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of St. Petersburg University. In 1881, he received a master's degree in natural sciences, having defended his thesis "Flora of Flowering Plants of the Minsk Province". In 1883-85, he completed an internship at the Geisengham Institute of Fruit Growing, Viticulture and Winemaking. From April 22, 1885 to January 1892, he was the head of the Uman Tsaritsyno Garden and a teacher at the Uman College of Agriculture and Horticulture, developed a program of practical and theoretical classes on horticulture in public schools. In the Uman Park "Sophiivka" laid the "English Park" arboretum; and a pomological garden, started the cultivation of grapes of industrial varieties, organized the technological processing of fruits and vegetables.

In his writings, Pashkevich described the varieties of fruit collections of the Tsaritsyno Garden and a new way of compiling pomological collections. In the "Fund of publications published in the 19th century". on agricultural subjects of the NNSGB of the National Academy of Sciences» there are 19 books by V. V. Pashkevich. As a specialist in horticulture from the Department of Agriculture, during annual expeditions he surveyed gardens in different parts of the country, the result of which was the 12-volume edition "Fruit Growing in Russia". Materials and research» (1899).

At the 1st congress of representatives of agricultural plant breeding held on January 10-15, 1911 in Kharkov, Pashkevich was elected a member of the committee on ; ride, where he gave a talk on the topics: "Fruit breeding and varietal science", "On the production of garden and garden seed production". Made proposals for the appointment of special awards for the creation of farms with vegetable seed production, for the training of consultants in vegetable and garden seed production, for the popularization of this direction by the government, zemstvos and public organizations. 

Pashkevich's articles on fruit growing also appeared in the Yearbook of the Main Department of Land Management and Agriculture from the Department of Agriculture and the Forestry Department. In 1915, Vasyl Vasyliovych participated in the study of the state of the industry of collection, culture and processing of medicinal plants, conducted by the Department using the questionnaire method, and in 1916 – appointed as an authorized representative of the Organization for the collection, cultivation and procurement of medicinal plants.

In the "Fund of publications published in the XIX century. on agricultural subjects of the NNSGB of the National Academy of Sciences» you can also familiarize yourself with the works of the great scientist-pomologist, published in the periodicals "Fruit-growing", "Russian horticulture and horticulture", and "Industrial fruit-growing".

 

You can get acquainted with the exhibition materials
in the reading hall No. 2 of the National Library of the National Academy of Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences.< /p>