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("The first book, about Thomas Edison, and the only book created during Edison's lifetime": let will correct who has the reasons; I will be grateful).
Both essays by A.V. Kamensky - both "Edison", and "Morse" - are presented and in electronic libraries, and in the Internet book trading.
2.The circumstances of life are not known
The book by A.V. Kamensky is written very honestly and respectably.
I have become interested: who is he, the Kamensky Andrey Vasilyevich?
July 27-29, 2016 I have "came in online".
Best known encyclopedic Internet source: No article on such a person. But there is some information in the adjacent project (the Internet Resource).
Wikisource, the free library. "Andrey Vasilievich Kamensky." Years of life are indicated: 1843 - 1913. Writer and translator from the English language.
What is mentioned from among his literary works?
The "Translations" are named. And are listed: Resolves of the House of Burgesses [Virgin Resolutions] (1769) US Declaration of Independence Articles of Confederation Constitution of the USA. Essay "Edison" is not mentioned.
On the site/Классика there is a section: "Kamensky Andrei Vasilievich: Works and translations". Here (Lib.Ru) the reference information "About the author" is given: '- Russian writer and translator from the English language. Born in 1843. Circumstances of life are not established'. "He wrote seven biographical essays for the library of F. Pavlenkov (" The Life of Remarkable People "). He translated Charles Dickens, Bulton Litton, E. Channing ("The History of the United States of North America"), etc. Judging by the bibliography, literature and translations were not the main financial source of A.V. Kamensky ". Where he lived: Russia, St. Petersburg.
The mention of "Edison" is, but, on the contrary, there is no information about the Kamensky's translations of the "Resolves of the House of Burgesses" (1769), the Declaration of independence, the Articles of Confederation, the U.S. Constitution.
On the same Internet resource Lib.Ru additional information (useful?): It is possible to confuse Andrei Vasilyevich Kamensky with the translator Alexei Vasilyevich Kamensky (born in 1887), who "in particular since 1912 participated in the publication of the collection of works by Jack London" .
The surname is widespread, even historical surname.
So: "the circumstances of life are not known", "circumstances of life are not set".
We will try to make a situation more clear, more understandable, taking advantage of opportunities one of the most popular Russian Internet search engines.
Library of the Russian literature (websiteru.3dn.ru/publ/kamenskij_andrej_vasilevich_bibliografija/1 1 0 1846). Concisely and clear: "Kamensky, Andrey Vasilyevich (1843)."
The point. The dot. As that is too laconic. We will imagine that not a point, but - ellipsis...
(On the other hand, for the writer - it is unreal honorary. Literary immortality ...).
Website "All-Russian Family Tree" .
There is a figure of "elected official" of "Zemstvo" (the member of local elected body of pre-revolutionary Russia - Member of the Municipal elected authority).
I provide information completely and without any corrections: "KAMENSKY ANDREY VASILYEVICH 1843. Journalist, translator. Mechanical engineer. The elected official (member) of Nogorodsky zemstvo. He have got an education in the Royal College, London".
Has got an education in England? Translator? Similar to the truth. "Hotly". He can to write to Thomas Edison the letter, receive the answer, read. And not only to translate, but - to understand. He is capable to use articles from special American magazines.
Those historic figures about whom A.V. Kaminsky wrote, or the British (William Ewart Gladstone, Daniel Defoe, Robert Owen, James Watt), or Americans (Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Edison, Samuel Morse) . All listed historical personalities spoke English.
Mechanical engineer: confirms qualification and education; he understands scientifically technical questions.
The elected official (member) of zemstvo: he is inclined to policy, questions of social design.
Journalist: knows taste of literary bread.
Heroes of biographic essays of A.V. Kamensky or from the sphere scientifically technical (James Watt, Thomas Edison, Samuel Morse), or social and political (Abraham Lincoln, William Gladstone, Robert Owen); Daniel Defoe is the English writer and the publicist.
Educational and intellectual levels of "A.V. Kamensky from "All-Russian Family Tree"" allow to write him a biographic essay about Edison.
It seems that the website "All-Russian Family Tree" contains exact information about A.V Kamensky, the author of seven biographic essays published by Florenty Fedorovich Pavlenkov in the book-series "Life of Remarkable People" ("LRP").
The member of zemstvo: the old-fashioned respectability sounds barely perceptible in this phrase.Also - as we will see further - similar to the truth.
"Education in England" - "The member of zemstvo" - "mechanical engineer" - "the journalist, the translator" - "the writer, the translator from English" - "literary works weren't the main livelihood"?
On FEB website: ENI "Dictionary of Pseudonyms" (ФЭБ:
"Name: Kamensky, Andrei Vasilyevich (1843 - not earlier than 1898) - the journalist, the translator, employee of magazine "North Messenger" ('Сев. Вестник') (1897-98)