the movement of Greco-Scythian caravans, first to the north to supply themselves with fur goods, then to the east through the Urals, to sell this product or exchange for another, perhaps silk fabrics, already widespread in Palestine and Egypt so early...
Baer came from that broad, multilateral school of natural scientists, which is now becoming a legend, from a school brought up under the influence of the powerful ideas of encyclopedism, a school that embraces all of nature: a specialist, the creator of the new science of embryology, he, however, never shuns the moral sciences; he was aware not only of their great, ennobling significance, but also of the possibility of achieving lasting, positive results in them. In the annals of Russian science, geography, ethnography, archeology, Baer’s works will forever occupy an honorable place and will hardly ever turn out to be superfluous.
The works of K. E. Eichwald (b. 1795) in relation to Russian archaeological science are less important in terms of their internal merit, but concern no less important and significant issues. Invited as a professor at Kazan University, Eichwald had the opportunity to make a scientific journey through the Caucasus and the Caspian Sea in 1825-26. He understood his task broadly: he wanted to be not only a traveler - a natural scientist, but also a geographer, an ethnographer, and even an archaeologist. The fruit of the trip was its extensive description in 2 volumes (Regiriiz) and the 3rd volume, covering "The Ancient Geography of the Caspian Sea, the Caucasus and Southern Russia, according to Greek, Roman and other sources (B. 1838). This work - in many parts requiring changes - in general, however, has not yet been replaced by anything better. Eichwald did not have a strict scholarly talent and sobriety of thought, like Behr; it is not uncommon for him to come across ideas of an extremely fantastic nature. Thus, for example, he claims that the ancient writers under the name Scythians understood the Chud tribe, that the very name Skgt is nothing more than the Greek pronunciation of the word Chud; of the naked sea. In his opinion, these were all Finns. But it’s strange how the Greeks could hear the Russian name Chudi, and even stranger how they could convey it with the name Scythian. Eichwald's Finomania has been rejected by science, but the material collected in his book and many explanations
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still have their inherent significance. Like Baer, Eichwald was partly an archaeologist: he owns a small but interesting work "On the Chud mines", i.e., about those places or wells from which the Chud mined metals. Unfortunately, this work also loses a lot of its dignity from the ethnographic hobbies of the scientist - finism. An essential part of it should be considered the description of tools and objects found in the Chud mines and a description of some Chud antiquities located in public and private collections. There is news that several years before his death, Eichwald was engaged in an extensive work on the material antiquities of Russia. It would be a pity if it remained unpublished.
A. A. Kotlyarevsky concluded his report with the words that such naturalists as Baer and Eichwald, who apparently entered the area of history and archeology that was alien to them, were and will always be welcome guests in it.
At the first private meeting of the Society on January 8, 1877, the following messages were proposed:
1) D. member. A. A. Kotlyarevsky read “about the origin of the legend about the Novgorod baths” as a supplement to the reading of I. I. Malyshevsky regarding the article by prof. Golubinsky. Pointing out that the legend about Andrew the First-Called came from a written source, which was noted by Bayer (Schletser), prof. Kotlyarevsky cited an authentic passage from the chronicle according to the Laurentian list (pp. 7-8, ed. 1872), depicting wondrous “customs about the bai in Novgorod: “I marvelously saw the Slovenian land, as I walked there I saw ancient bathhouses, and they burned it with a ramekin, got together and became nazis, and douse yourself with brewed kvass, and take the young rod on yourself, fight yourself and achieve this, and when they get in alive and douse yourself with cold water, then they will come to life; It is interesting to know the source of the legend. It is hardly of Russian origin: it is impossible for a Russian to talk about the bathhouse as if it were an outlandish thing; it could have been done by some foreigner merchant. That he is a foreigner, there is no doubt: we in 1873-77