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Финикийский корабль
Основой книги "Финикийский корабль" послужили записки одного моряка о его удивительных приключениях на разных морях. Записки эти были на глиняных табличках найденных на раскопках на восточном берегу Средиземного моря, в Сайде, на месте, где когда-то стоял знаменитый финикийский город Сидон.
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Vasily Yan
41 books16 followersVasily Yan. (Russian:
Василий Ян
; 23 December 1874 (4 January 1875), Kiev - August 5, 1954, Zvenigorod Moscow Region) was a Russian writer. Also spelled "Vassily Yan" (or "Ian") or just "V. Yan", this is the pen name of Vassily Grigoryevich Yanchevetsky (Васи́лий Григо́рьевич Янчеве́цкий).
Born to a family of teachers, his father was from a Volynskih priests family, who graduated from seminary and taught Latin and Greek at the University Gymnasium.
In 1897, Yan graduated from the historical and philological faculty of St. Petersburg University. Impressions of a two-year tour of Russia form the backbone of his book Notes of a Pedestrian (1901). In 1901–1904 he served as inspector of wells in Turkestan, where he studied Oriental languages and lives of local people. During the Russian-Japanese war, he was a military correspondent for the St. Petersburg News Agency (SPA). In 1906–1913, he taught Latin at the first Petersburg Gymnasium. As an organizer of the scouts he met with Colonel Robert Baden-Powell, who came to Russia in 1910.
In the autumn of 1910 Vasily Yan introduced the magazine Pupil. In 1913, he worked as a correspondent in Turkey SPA. In 1914, with the beginning of the First World War - he became SPA military correspondent in Romania. In 1918–1919 he worked in the Kolchak printing shop army camp in Siberia. After the restoration of Soviet power in Achinsk he worked as a teacher, correspondent and director of schools in Uryanhae (Tuva). He then became the editor of the leading newspaper The Power of labour in Minusinske. That was when he first adopted the pseudonym Yan. In 1923, he moved to Moscow.
Born to a family of teachers, his father was from a Volynskih priests family, who graduated from seminary and taught Latin and Greek at the University Gymnasium.
In 1897, Yan graduated from the historical and philological faculty of St. Petersburg University. Impressions of a two-year tour of Russia form the backbone of his book Notes of a Pedestrian (1901). In 1901–1904 he served as inspector of wells in Turkestan, where he studied Oriental languages and lives of local people. During the Russian-Japanese war, he was a military correspondent for the St. Petersburg News Agency (SPA). In 1906–1913, he taught Latin at the first Petersburg Gymnasium. As an organizer of the scouts he met with Colonel Robert Baden-Powell, who came to Russia in 1910.
In the autumn of 1910 Vasily Yan introduced the magazine Pupil. In 1913, he worked as a correspondent in Turkey SPA. In 1914, with the beginning of the First World War - he became SPA military correspondent in Romania. In 1918–1919 he worked in the Kolchak printing shop army camp in Siberia. After the restoration of Soviet power in Achinsk he worked as a teacher, correspondent and director of schools in Uryanhae (Tuva). He then became the editor of the leading newspaper The Power of labour in Minusinske. That was when he first adopted the pseudonym Yan. In 1923, he moved to Moscow.
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December 22, 2021
Наивная историческая приключенческая повесть для младшего и среднего школьного возраста.
May 17, 2020
Jako prosto i dečije napisana knjiga. Bilo je par lepih momenata pa stoga dve zvezdice. Očekivao sam priču o fenicanima a dobio putovanje starca i deteta na kanarska ostrva. Zao mi vremena izgubljenog na čitanju ali srećom samo 140 stranica. Kraj priče takodje nedorecen još jedan minus
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