Biography
William Pokhlebkin is an encyclopedically educated scientist whose role is called "Nikolai Karamzin of Russian cuisine." Culinary daily food was unpretentious, the man delivered only guests.Childhood and youth
The scientist was born in August 1923 in Moscow. Father Pokhlebkin Vasily Mikhailovich Mikhailov, being a revolutionary, used the nickname of his grandfather as a underground nickname - a serf cook, boiled wonderful soups. Later, the pseudonym of the Bolshevik, as in the case of Arkady Gaidar, became his name recorded in the passport.
In the full name of the Son - William-August - the Father Revolutionary repelled the worship of William Shakespeare and respect for August Bebel, and also encrypted the abbreviation of Villa (Vladimir Ilyich Lenin) and the month of the boy's appearance. Comrades and family members when contacting a scientist later used the name August, and the research researcher published as William.
In 1941, a graduate of School of Pokhlebkin volunteer went to the front. In battles near Moscow, a young man who knew three foreign languages, contusted. Further service of the Polyglot passed and as a chef of regimental cuisine.
In 1944, William-August wrote to the political plan of the Red Army with a request to learn it, since the "Exodus of War is predetermined." The petition of Pokhlebkin was satisfied, and the guy entered MGIMO, then the ex-Faculty of Moscow University. The university young veteran graduated in 1950 with the only four in Marxism-Leninism.
After 2 years, Pokhlebkin defended his thesis and began working at the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences. In 1955, the scientist founded the magazine "Scandinavian compilation", which was published in Tartu. In 1963, the topic of the doctoral dissertation of Pokhlebkin rejected, and the scandinavist quit out of research.
Personal life
And externally, and by the nature of Pokhlebkin reminded the scholars-scientists described by Juhle correct. In addition to science and books, Villama Vasilyevich did not interest anything. Pokhlebkin possessed a bad character and often shaking a famous vocabulary photo, reporting merchants in the market for poor quality of goods.A man lived without a refrigerator and a TV, wore clothing for decades. However, the Personal Library of Pokhlebkin numbered 50 thousand volumes, in a modest apartment on the outskirts of the Moscow region of Podolsk, the collections of the Chinese porcelain of the XII century and coins were kept.
The author of the book "The History of Vodka" did not use alcohol (could only hurt a drink for tasting). After dismissal from the Institute of History, William-August Quarter lived only on black bread and tea.
The recipe for happiness in the personal life of the historian never opened, although he tried twice to create a family. From the first marriage, concluded in his youth with a resident of Estonia, the daughter of Gudrun was born from Pokhlebkin, from the second son, named after Father August.
The scientist freely owned the Swedish, Italian, German, Serbian and Croatian languages. Pokhlebkin was friends with Ivan Starionenkov, who lived in the same entrance as a scientist. Shortly before the death of William Vasilyevich, his companion-neighbor died.
Cooking
The first culinary book of William Vasilyevich became the monograph "Tea", published in 1968 and gained popularity from dissidents that combined the kitchen conversations of political problems with tea gatherings. Earlier, Pokhlebkin attracted the editing of the next edition of the "Books about Tasty and Healthy Food".
Culinary offered to enrich the diet of the cosmonauts with a blend of black and green tea. The merits of Pokhlebkin before the Fatherland is the proof of Russian priority before Poland in the invention of vodka. At the same time, a number of works by William Vasilyevich was considered by the authorities as culinary sabotage, since the scientist mentioned the products that were not on sale (from sturgeon to buckwheat).
All recipes offered by Schlebkin, culinary checked, prepare appropriate dishes. However, the works of the researcher went beyond the cookbooks, since they considered Russian cuisine and the kitchen of the peoples of the USSR in historical and cultural aspects.
Bibliography of Pokhlebkin was not limited to culinary publications. Being a heraldist, William Vasilyevich amounted to the "International Symbols and Emblems" dictionary. For the biography of Urho Kalewa Kekkonen, Pokhlebkin, awarded award in the amount of $ 50 thousand, which the scientist was not allowed to receive.
Death
The life of the culinary broke in the spring of 2000. The cause of death was 11 injuries applied to the killer, who penetrated the apartment of a scientist. William-August's body lay down to discovery for 3 weeks.The only evidence left by the killer at the crime scene is the 46-size shoe imprint on the last book of the Great Pseudonym. In the work, the biography of Joseph Jugashvili was investigated and the versions of the choice of the Politician's politician Stalin were set.
The monograph offended both Slavophiles and Westerners, both liberals and the fans of the leader. The revenge of one of these groups could cause the murder, because nothing was gone from the apartment of the researcher.
Bibliography
- 1955 - "Denmark"
- 1958 - "Scandinavian countries and the USSR"
- 1967 - "State Structure of Iceland"
- 1968 - "Tea"
- 1973 - "All about spices"
- 1975 - "USSR - Finland: 260 years of relationship. 1713-1973 »
- 1978 - "National Kitchens of Our Peoples"
- 1979 - "Secrets of good cuisine"
- 1983 - "Entertaining cooking"
- 1985 - "Urho Kaleva Kekkonen. Political biography »
- 1988 - "On cooking from A to J. Dictionary-directory"
- 1989 - "International symbolism and emblems. Vocabulary"
- 1991 - "The history of vodka (IX-XX centuries)"
- 1993 - "To eat filed! The repertoire of the dishes and drinks in Russian classical drama from the end of the XVIII to the beginning of the 20th century "
- 1996 - "Great Pseudonym"