Nik. Polevoi (TT(joAnTn.£ - merchant) and nearly an exact origin 

 of name of Ks. Polevoi (by the way, xevo-(j)U)V^a means idle 

 talk). The articles of M. G. Pavlov in "Atenee" opened 

 polemics. N. Polevoi (under the pen-name 0«0»0») in 

 "Moskovsky telegraf"2 in an ironical way discussed the 

 opinions of Pavlov and advocated the views of Davydov. 

 The article of Polevoi represents a dialogue between Davydov 

 (Alkin) and Pavlov, who was called Kassy Feliks Iatrosofist, 

 and his philosophy was named "Al'fomegalogy". Pavlov again 

 answered in "Atenee" (part III, No. 11, 1828, pp. 333-348) 

 under the signature "-lv-". (174) 



(49) I. Bremser dwelt on the constructive opinions 

 about the origin of the animal kindom joining the imitation 

 of Kyuve, who completed his theory of the catastrophy of 

 ideas of repeated creations. 



The opinion of Bremser about the origin of parasitic 

 worms is also an expression of his idealistic views on the 

 plastic power, which was given by the Creator to the living 

 nature. 



2. Magazine "Moskovsky telegraf" was organized by 



N. A. Polevoi in 1825. He directed it during 10 years. 

 This magazine had a notable influence on the history 

 of Russian journalism. The initial periods of the 

 activities of Polevoi, as the editor of "Moskovsky 

 telegraf" were highly estimated by Belinskii and 

 Gertsen, giving credit to Polevoi for his passionate 

 propagation of progress, but not hiding the contradic- 

 tions and faults in the trend of his journal. Later on, 

 Polevoi passed to more reactionary positions, which did 

 not, however, save "Moskovsky telegraf", which was 

 closed in 1834 by the order of Ministry of Education. 

 After this, from 1835 to 1844 Polevoi published (under 

 a strange name) popular scientific journal "zhivopiance 

 obozrenie" , in which as B. E. Raikov stated, actively 

 (although also anonymously) K. F. Rule participated (see 

 B. E. Raikov. Russkie biologi - evolyutsionisty do Darvina, 

 V. Ill, 1955). At the same time, with the scientific — 

 popular articles for "Zhivopisnoe obozrenie" N. Polevoi 

 wrote hurrah-patriotic plays, as "Dedushki russkogo flota" 

 (Grand-dad of Russian fleet) , owing to this he was in 

 1839 given a brilliant ring (see V. Veresaev. Sputniki 

 Pushkina, V2. Izd. "Sov. pisatel", 1937, pp. 352-357). 



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