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Alexander Butlerov
Butlerov
also: Бутлеров, бутлеровские ульи
Alexander Butlerov (1828-1886), the eminent Russian organic chemist who was also Russia's leading popularizer of modern, movable-frame beekeeping; his name became a byword for a scientifically up-to-date apiary, cited here as one item in a self-improving landowner's checklist of model-farm features.
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- The Name-Day Party §133 Butlerov hives
Alexander Butlerov (1828-1886), the prominent Russian organic chemist who was also the country's leading popularizer of modern, movable-frame beekeeping; his name had become, by the late 1880s, a byword for a scientifically up-to-date apiary -- one more item, alongside Yorkshire pigs and double-entry bookkeeping, in Olga Mikhailovna's silent inventory of a neighbor's showy modernity.