Kryukov N. A. Denmark. Agriculture in Denmark in connection with the General development of the country. With a map ...

Kryukov N. A. Denmark. Agriculture in Denmark in connection with the General development of the country. With a map and 26 drawings.
St. Petersburg, Russia. Printing House Of V. F. Kirshbaum. 1907 XV, 327 c., Fig., maps. Publisher's cover, enlarged format (17 x 25 cm). The cover is worn and dirty, has minor tears, losses, including the spine; the owner's signature on the cover "From the library of al.Fortunatov"; temporary spots.

With a map and 26 drawings.

[Alexey Fyodorovich Fortunatov (August 7 (19), 1856, Petrozavodsk, Olonets province — April 13, 1925, Moscow) was a Russian economist, economic geographer, agronomist and statistician. 

In 1874, he graduated from the 2nd Moscow gymnasium with a gold medal. Then he studied at the Moscow University — at the historical and philological (1874-1875) and medical (1875-1876) faculties, then at the St. Petersburg medical and surgical Academy (1876-1879). From 1879, he studied at the Petrovsky agricultural Academy, graduating in 1881, and resumed his studies at the medical faculty of Moscow University, from which he graduated in 1882. In 1883, he passed the master's exams at the Petrovsky Academy and began teaching there; since 1884-Professor of agricultural encyclopedia and agricultural statistics. He lectured at the Petrovsky Academy until its closure in 1894. In 1893, after defending his dissertation on "rye Crops in European Russia", he received a master's degree. This work was completed shortly after the famine and famine of 1891. It was the first to summarize a huge amount of material on the movement of rye crops over a century and their geography. A special section of the work was the analysis of the relationship of rye yields with various natural and social conditions of agriculture and its technology. This work was highly appreciated by The Russian geographical society; it awarded Fortunatov a large gold medal.

In 1894-1899, he was a Professor at the Novoalexandria Institute (in the Department of General, agricultural and forestry statistics). Since 1899, he was a Professor at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute in the Department of agriculture in the Department of agricultural economy and statistics.

In 1902, he returned to Moscow and from that time until his death was a Professor at the Moscow agricultural Institute (the Institute was opened instead of and on the basis of the Petrovsky Academy), headed the Department of agricultural economy. In addition, he taught at the Moscow commercial Institute, at the Shanyavsky University, at the Higher women's (Golitsyn) agricultural courses and at the Higher technical school. He was a teacher of A.V. Chayanov and many other agricultural economists who dealt with the problems of agricultural organization.

Practical statistics Fortunatov A. F. was engaged in rural research in Moscow, Samara and Tambov provinces; the results of these works were included in statistical compilations called the Zemstvos; were published separately description privately owned farms Buguruslan County (1886). 

As lectures Alexei Fedorovich Fortunatov and his printed works are rich in factual material, objectivity, clarity and conciseness of presentation. 

Russian Russian Russian agricultural and Zemstvo statistics have been published in various organs of the General and special press (in Russkaya Mysl, Russkiye Vedomosti, Trudy volnogo ekonomicheskogo OBSHCHESTVA, Etc.). some of A. F. Fortunatov's articles have been translated into Italian and German.

Fortunatov took a direct part in the statistical censuses of the Zemstvos of Moscow (1881), Samara (1883-1886) and Tambov (1887) provinces.

Fortunatov also wrote articles in the Complete encyclopedia of Russian agriculture, the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic dictionary (Zemstvo statistics), and the collection the Influence of crops and grain prices (edited by professors A. I. Chuprov and A. A. Chuprov).Posnikova) and others. In 1886, Fortunatov published the work "Agricultural statistics in Russia", in which he gave a historical overview of sources and research on the economic and geographical study of the country over a long period of time. When studying the geography of agriculture, Fortunatov for many years distinguished areas of field crops by a combination of three crops that predominate in the sown area (the first historical review of the experiments of dividing Russia into economic regions - 1896). for the First time from this point of view, he analyzed data on the sown areas of Russia in 1881 and 1886, publishing his work "Areas of Russian field culture". Bibliographic reviews and final annual reviews of Zemstvo statistical publications were important. ]