Talk:Vladimir Vernadsky
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I wish I had access to more texts on Vernadsky, so that there could be more than just mentioning his ideas of the Noosphere here in Wikipedia. Also there are even richer writings of Vernadsky that I will try and incorporate here in the future (like his thoughts on Biogeochemistry and Scientific thought, and his leanings towards Riemann's mathematical methods). T3liph0n3 05:32, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
- A few facts about Vernadsky`s attitude towards Ukrainian separatism (link is in Ukraininan): он в 1918 году отказался принять украинское гражданство от гетмана Павла Скоропадского[1] и считал себя русским человеком[1], отстаивал единство России и противостоял украинцам-самостийникам, как австро- и германофилам[1]. Владимир Вернадский также негативно относился к украинизации 1920—1930-х годов, считая её насильственной[1]. Своим главным культурно-общественным заданием он считал сохранение русской культуры на Украине[1], объединение украинцев, которым дорога русская культура, и развитие связей с российскими научными учреждениями[1].
More on family origins:
http://www.wumag.kiev.ua/index2.php?param=pgs20033/48
Volodymyr Vernadsky was born in St Petersburg on March 12 1863. His father, Ivan, was a professor. His family had an estate in the village of Velyki Shyshaky in the land of Poltavshchyna, Ukraine, and they often went there to spend the summer.
According to the family lore, the Vernadskys were of Cossack extraction. Volodymyr’s great grandfather, Ivan Vernadsky, was a starshyna (a military rank) of the Zaporizhian Sich Cossacks, and when under the Empress Catherine II, the Sich was dissolved, Ivan, in search of a safer place to live in, made his way to a village in the land of Chernihivshchyna where he settled down. One way or the other, he became a priest but the villagers found him lacking in zeal. Ivan Vernadsky was more preoccupied with getting himself and his children promoted to nobility for which, he claimed, he had inalienable rights as a free Cossack of a high military rank. He did get what he wanted but later he was expelled from the ranks of the nobility, probably for not having enough qualifications after all. Ivan was said to have died at a cemetery during the funeral service which he was to conduct as a priest. He was very reluctant to conduct that service but was forced to do it by the angry parishioners, and was so overwhelmed by anger that he succumbed to a stroke.
Volodymyr Vernadsky, the future prophetic scientist, showed a growing interest for the history of Ukraine, the land of his ancestors, at the age of thirteen. One of the biographers of Vernadsky writes that it happened when Volodymyr was — with his father — touring Italy. When in Milan, Volodymyr read in a newspaper about a Russian government ukase that forbade the publication of books in Ukrainian in Ukraine. Much amazed and perplexed, he asked his father to explain why such an idiotic ban had been put on Ukrainian publications. His father told the teenager the basic facts about the Ukrainian history. Upon their return to St Petersburg, Volodymyr began reading whatever he could lay his hands on about Ukraine, its culture and history. When he found some books about Ukraine in Polish, he learnt Polish just in order to read them.
Lev Gumilev in one of his writings also stressed that Vernadsky was an ethnic Ukrainian.Faustian (talk) 20:39, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
