Dmitry Kantemir Biography
Since the year, the senator. Since the year, the actual state adviser. From the year, after the death of his father, he was proclaimed the Lord Moldova, but was not approved by the Turkish Sultan. In the year, the Sultan was appointed by the Lord Moldova. In the year, with the participation of Kantemir, a draft agreement on the accession of Moldova to Russia was drawn up. He called on the population of Moldova to support Peter I during the Prut campaign.
After the conclusion of the Prut world, he was forced to leave Moldova with his family. In August, he was granted the title of the Serene Prince, lands and estates. One of the closest associates of Peter I and his advisers in oriental affairs. He was widely known as one of the major scientists of his time. Member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences. Danilov A.
Reference materials. Moscow, scientist Kantemir Dmitry Konstantinovich, his father was the Lord of Moldova and, as a hostage in the fidelity of his father, Kantemir was at –91 in Constantinople, where he studied at the Greek-Latin Academy. There he studied music so well that as a composer created many small plays. B was elected by the Lord Moldova. He was accepted with his family and adherents among Russian subjects.
Kantemir became the king’s adviser on oriental issues, received the title of the prince and estates in Little Russia. He received the rank of secret adviser and the title of senator, in –23 he participated in the Persian campaign. The materials of the site are used large encyclopedia of the Russian people. Philosopher Kantemir Dmitry - - Moldavian writer, philosopher, historian and orientalist, the Lord of Moldova.
He emigrated to Russia, where he became a political adviser to Peter I. A member of the Berlin Academy reflected in his works the transition of philosophical thinking from the Middle Ages to a new time, from scholasticism to rationalism. Until the beginning of the 18th century. Later, he evolved to the ideas, close deisms and early enlightenment “Hieroglyphic History”, “The prescription Chronicle of Romanian-Moldo-Vlahov”, “The Natural History of Monarchies”, and others.
The understanding of the historical process contained ideas about the universal nature of civilization, a certain recognition of historical patterns within the framework of the theory of cyclic social development. Kantemir's work “History of the elevation and decline of the Ottoman Empire” –16, translated into a number of European languages, is most famous.
The son of Kantemir Antioch Kantemir –44 is a Russian writer, a satirist, an active participant in the Petrine reforms, an actor of the “scientific squad” of Peter I. Philosophical Dictionary. Ed. Encyclopedist Kantemir Dmitry Konstantinovich since the year - Moldavian Lord. The Prut's campaign of Peter I did not bring the liberation of Moldova; Together with the Russian troops, Kantemir and 4 thousand Moldovans arrived in Russia.
Kantemir became the king’s adviser on oriental issues, received the title of the prince and estates in Ukraine.
Continued scientific activity. In the year he was elected a member of the Berlin Academy. In the Persian campaign, he ruled the camping office of Peter I. Almost all Kantemir’s works were written in Russia under the influence and in connection with the reforms of Peter I. Historical work of Kantemir - “historical, geographical and political description of Moldova”, “chronicle of the old mano -ground -vlahov”, “the history of the elevation and decline of the Ottoman Empire” and others - became known in Russia and in Russia and in Russia and in Russia and in Russia and in Russia and in Russia and in Russia and in Russia and in Russia and in Russia Western Europe.
Patriotism, faith in the progressive role of Russia in the Balkans and the possibilities of the economic flowering of Moldova permeate all the historical works of Kantemir. Kantemir considered the main source of knowledge of the world the mind - which was a step forward in the development of Moldavian science - although, along with the mind, he attached great importance to the divine will.
Soviet historical encyclopedia. In 16 volumes. Volume 6. Cantemir statesman Dmitry Konstantinovich, the youngest son of the Moldavian rule of Konstantin Kantemir and Anna Bantysh, who came from an ancient boyar family. Married to the first marriage on Cassandra Kantakuzin, which came from the family of Byzantine emperors. The teacher and educator Kantemir was an educated monk I.
Kakavel, the author of the textbook of logic and a number of anti -icing works. In November, Kantemir as a hostage was sent to Istanbul, where he met with the scientists of the Patriarchal Greco-Latin Academy, studied the Greek, Latin, Arabic and Turkish languages, listened to lectures on history, philosophy, and theology. The formation of the Cantemir worldview was influenced by the work of the philosophers Anthony and Spandony, the natural philosophical ideas of Artysky Meletius.
Returning three years later to Moldova, D. Kantemir took part in the siege of the fortress of the forty, occupied by the Polish troops after the death of his father, elected by the boyars of Moldova, but as a result of the machinations of the Valash ruler Konstantin Brynkovyan, his candidacy was not approved by the Sultan Ahmed I. Kantemir again left for I.
The representative of the Moldavian Lord at the Sultan court. He participated in the battle of Zent now - Sent, on the Tisa River, which ended with the defeat of the Turkish army from the Austrian troops. He made friendly relations with the famous Turkish scientist Saadi Effendi, the ambassadors of Russia P. Tolstoy, Holland Y. Keler, France Sh.In the Sultan, he was appointed by the Lord Moldova with an obligation to prepare the Moldavian army for war with Russia, the guidance of bridges and crossings through the Danube, the devices of winter apartments for the remnants of the Swedish army of Charles XII, and observing the actions of Brynkovan, suspected of treason.
Kantemir, who sought to free Moldova from the Ottoman yoke, sent to Russia the secret ambassador of Stefan Luke, who entered into negotiations with Peter I on the joint struggle with Turkey. In with; The participation of Kantemir has drawn up a draft agreement on the voluntary entry of Moldova in Russia on the rights of autonomy, on the establishment of a hereditary monarchy of Kantemirov, etc.
on its territory, called the population of Moldova to support the Pruti campaign after the conclusion of the Prut world and his family left Moldova. In August, he was granted the title of the Serene Prince, lands and estates, a house in Moscow and an annual pension of 6 thousand s, after the death of his wife, he lived in Moscow, where he maintained ties with Feofan Prokopovich, V.
Tatishchev, Prince A. Cherkassky, Prince I. Trubetskoy, B. P. Pogetev. He invited the writer I. Kantemir's scientific works to the position of secretary and educator of his children, have gained European fame. He was elected a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences. The wedding crown over his head was married to Princess A. Trubetskoy by Peter I himself. Having moved with his family to St.
Petersburg, he became an adviser to the sovereign in the affairs of the East, he became one of the closest associates of the emperor. In the Persian campaign, he was in charge of the state office. At the initiative of Kantemir, a special printing house with Arabic font was organized, in which Peter I appeal to the peoples of the Caucasus and Persia. In between military operations, he undertook a number of geographical, historical, archaeological research, collected materials on the history of Dagestan, studied the ancient monuments of Derbent.
Kantemir is known as the author of philosophical, historical and philological works. Kantemir’s philosophical works include “sofa, or a sofa spore with the world”, “metaphysics”, “universal abbreviated logic” near, “research of the nature of monarchies”, “dark places in the catechism” the philosophical views of Kantemir underwent evolution from theological idealism to rationalism and spontaneous materialism.
Atomistic views were combined with the deestical understanding of the correlation of God and nature, soul and body. Kantemir claimed that the world is developing according to objective laws, predetermined by God, but a person with the help of science can study the secrets of the universe. Kantemir’s historical works are devoted mainly to the Ottoman Port and Moldova “The History of the Anturement and Decline of the Ottoman Empire”,; "Description of Moldova",; "Life of Konstantin Kantemir",; “Events in the life of Kantakuzins and Brynkovyans”,; “The system, or the state of the Muhamedan religion”, the essay of Kantemir on the history of the Ottoman Empire was considered a classic study, was translated into English, German, and French; Voltaire called this work his table book in the East.
Kantemir acted as a supporter of a centralized state, an opponent of boyar arbitrariness. He studied the negative consequences of the Turkish yoke for the political, economic and cultural development of the peoples underlying Ottoman Port. He argued that history is a combination of progress and regression, that "states should appear and disappear, change and revive and die, have some end." This process considered historically logical, for "another is born from the death of one object." One of the most important literary works of Kantemir was the “hieroglyphic story” - the first novel in Moldavian.
In this work, in an allegorical form, the dynastic straightforces of Kantemirov and Brynkovyans were told, about the tragedy of the principalities of Moldova and Wallachia, whose sovereigns, the sovereigns of each other, helped the sultans to oppress the peoples subject to them. He wrote a musical treatise, where he outlined his ethical views, and also, based on the Arabic alphabet, gave a musical system of Turkish music.
In connection with the disease, he returned to his Oryol estate Dmitrovka. Buried in the Moscow New Greek Monastery; At the request of the Romanian government, his remains were transferred to Yassy. The materials of the book were used: Sukhareva O.