BOOK 1. UNMASKING THE HIDDEN. N. LEVASHOV'S «SVETL BROOM» IN A. KHATYBOV'S «BATH SCHOOL» AND A LABOUR SPADE.
Book 1. Unmasking the Hidden. Chapter 6. About the creator of “Bannoye delo” 314 reports from Shlisselburg to his family: "Now I'm writing a book on the structure of matter. I've already written almost 1,500 pages, and there are not more than five hundred left. Although this book is probably never destined to be published, I have been still working hard on it almost every day for the last three years and feel an inexpressible pleasure whenever after long deliberation, calculations, and sometimes sleepless nights, I am able to find order and correctness in such phenomena of nature, which until now seemed mysterious". The inner world of a prisoner with a "dried-up body" turned out to be so rich, his self-possession so high that he not only did not die and get insane in the terrible conditions of a long single imprisonment in the "stone tomb" of Alekseevsky Ravelin and Shlisselburg Fortress, but, on the contrary, he filled his life with creative work. N.A. Morozov eagerly awaited every new day as every new day allowed him to move forward in the development of scientific ideas. Many years later, Morozov would say that he was not in prison, but in the "Universe". N.A. Morozov was released as a result of the 1905 revolution. He entirely devotes himself to science, begins to prepare for publication his works written in prison. At the same period, he gives many lectures throughout Russia. While lecturing, he visited 54 towns of the country, from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok. His public lectures on the problems of chemistry, aviation, history of religions were brilliant, they gathered huge audiences. All this frightened the authorities, and they often prohibited lectures. The Man of immense mental grasp has another gift – a poetic one. He writes stories, novels, poems. For the poetic collection "Starry Songs" he is sentenced to one year's imprisonment. In prison, he begins to write his memoirs "The Story of My Life" featuring a strained plot, a beautiful language and neat images of his contemporaries. These memoirs were HIGHLY APPRECIATED by L.N . Tolstoy. In 1907 , on the invitation of P.F. Lesgaft N.A. Morozov began teaching a course of general chemistry at the Higher Free School. A few years later he
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