Professor Alexei Vasilyevich Favorsky

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А. V. Favorsky was born on February 10, 1873, in the village of Sedlistom, Kharbai parish, Astrakhan county. His father was a clergyman, the son of a clergyman, and having studied for 3 years in a clerical school, he entered the petty bourgeoisie and went into the service, as a small servant, at the landowner Rogov's stud farm. Then as a young man of 20, he went into service in Astrakhan, as a raft worker for the fishing firm of first Kozhevnikov and then Br. Sapozhnikov, and soon achieved a position as a small clerk. He soon married a former serf of the Astrakhan landlord Goring; from this marriage was born a son, Alexei, one of seventeen.

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