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Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay lived a strange life.
Expelled from Russian education as a nobleman who identified with common people, he briefly studied with Haeckel the evolutionary biologist. Although carrying a letter from Thomas Huxley, he did not believe in the superiority of the European races, and was the first white man to live in New Guinea (the previously named Cannibal Coast, now named after him the Maclay Coast). He founded a large marine biology institute in Australia and fearlessly married the Prime Minister's daughter. He created many aboriginal dictionaries and gave 34 scientific lectures to the Linnaean Society before returning to die in Russia.
A pension was granted to his wife, his children and descendants by Tsar Alexander III. This was continued by Nikolai II, Lenin and for many years by Stalin. There is one grandson in Australia still living who received each month communist silver rubles.
Why is Miklouho-Maclay so little known in the world?
On March 29, 2013, David Wansbrough — popular speaker for ELE, who speaks annually to ELE on visits from Australia — will answer this question and others, in his lecture titled:
«The Life of Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay»
19:00
Chekhov Cultural Center, Strastnoi Bulvar 6
100 rubles
