Likhachev Dmitry

Likhachev Dmitry

Dmitry Sergeevich Likhachev was born in 1906 in St. Petersburg. My mother’s ancestors were Old Believers, my father’s relatives ran a store on Nevsky in the 18th century: Likhachev’s gold-embroidery workshops served the royal court. Both of them are from merchant families. The future academician's mother died when he was 5 years old from consumption, and his father married a second time.
He graduated from St. Petersburg University and worked in the Pushkin House since 1938. Author of 1500 works. He wrote his first scientific article, “Features of primitive primitivism of thieves’ speech,” based on materials collected in the Solovetsky camp. He was the first in Russia to be awarded the Order of St. Andrew the First-Called and the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree.
Daughter Lyudmila graduated from university, from the age of 23 at the Russian Museum. Curator of the department of ancient Russian applied art, specialist in church embroidery, honored cultural worker. Her husband, a doctor of physical and mathematical sciences, works under a contract in Germany.
The granddaughter has a diploma from Leningrad State University with a specialty in Ancient Greek and Latin, and in 1981 she was forced to leave for Munich with her dissident husband; Later she defended her dissertation in England and now teaches Russian history there. Remarried.
Great-grandson is 19 years old, studies China, native language is German, speaks Russian with an accent. The great-granddaughter was born two years ago on the banks of the Thames and does not yet know the native language of the famous great-grandfather.