Quotes:Ovsyanikov-Kulikovsky, Dmitry Nikolayevich

Zirkoff, Boris

Ovsyaniko-Kulikovsky, Dmitriy Nikolayevich. Russian philologist and historian of great repute, b. at Kahovka, Ukraine, Jan. 23, 1853 (old style); d. 1920. Educ. at home with private tutors; later at Odessa and Simpheropol’; studied Sanskrit at St. Petersburg Univ.; then at Univ, of Novorossiysk. Sent abroad, 1877, to prepare for chair of compar. philology and Skt. Visited Paris and Prague. Upon return, became privat-docent at Univ. ofNovor., 1882; wrote for his master’s degree at Univ, of Kharkov his *Essay on the Bacchic Cults of the Indo-European Antiquity (Odessa, 1884). His doctorate thesis, 1887, was publ. in the Revue de Vhistoire des religions, 1889, as “Les trois feux sacrés du Rig-Véda.” After brief professorship at Kazan Univ., 1887, became prof, of Skt. and compar. philol. at Univ, of Kharkov, 1888, holding this chair for 17 years. Held chair of compar. syntax at Univ, of St. Petersburg, 1914. Aside from numerous scholarly essays in various Russian journals, he wrote a remarkable work on the creative genius of Turgenyev (Kharkov, 1896), and edited with others the ill. History of Russian Literature (Russian text), publ. in 5 vols. (Moscow: “Mir”). His Complete Works in 11 vols, were publ. in 1911. He became convinced that metaphysics is at the very root of science, and that everything must be viewed in the 388 light of the ideas of Infinity and Eternity, against the background of endless Evolution.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 7, pp. 387-388