Mendeleyev has found communication{connection} even between the most unlike elements. It{he} has found out, that properties of elements if them to place in ascending order nuclear weights, through correct intervals repeat. Mendeleyev understood: accident it could not be. Then it{he} has made last - deciding step: has arranged all elements also on groups, having united in separate families of close relatives. It{he} so clearly saw harmony of the system created by him{it}, that, having noticed absence of an element between aluminium and the titan, has left to it{him} an empty seat. Such empty cells{cages} it was necessary to leave two more. Mendeleyev's system allowed it{him} to expect opening.
First of them has followed in four years. The element for which Mendeleyev has left a place and properties which nuclear weight it{he} has predicted, has suddenly appeared! Young French chemist Lekok has sent the letter in the Parisian academy of sciences. In it{him} it was spoken: <The day before yesterday, on August, 27, 1875, between two and four o'clock in the morning I have found out a new element in a mineral zinc from mine Pjerfitt in Pyrenees>. But the most amazing still was necessary.
Mendeleyev has predicted, still leaving for this element a place, that his{its} density should be 5,9. And asserted{approved}: the element open by him{it} has density 4,7. Mendeleyev, and in eyes not seeing new it and is more surprising than elements - themes, declares, that the French chemist was mistaken in calculations. But also appeared : it{he} assured, that was exact. This dispute resembled any game in which participated . This magician carried Russian name.
Hardly later after additional measurements it was found out: Mendeleyev was unconditionally right. The first element, filling an empty place in the table, has named gallium in honour of the native land of France. And to anybody then has not occurred to name it{him} of the person who has predicted existence of this element, person who has once and for all predetermined a way of development of chemistry. It was made by scientists of the twentieth century. Mendeleyev's name carries an element open by the Soviet physicists.
... And houses at him{it} all goes somehow inconsistently. To it{him} it is lonely. It{he} for a long time already knows, that it{him} never will understand. She{it} wants, that it{he} was the provisional family man and all free time from teaching carried out{spent} together with it{her} in village. And it{he} cannot. became for him{it} a stage in a life, and this stage appeared already behind.
Mendeleyev for some months leaves for America - study local methods of an oil recovery. America surprises it{him}: it{he} expected to see something absolutely other. The first city of staff - New York. It{he} has seemed to the great chemist simply ordinary-looking, reminding the big district cities of Russia. The well-known petrocrafts? But it{he} anywhere did not meet more thoughtless attitude{relation} to natural riches...
However, it{he} did not meet still much in a life, this large, hardly the man with a fair-haired beard and long hair. To it{him} for forty, but it{he} did not meet very important in a life that fills with its{her} special, quivering sense. It{he} yet did not like.
They have got acquainted in the house of his{its} senior sister. Her{it} called Anna, she{it} was a daughter of the Cossack colonel and so did not resemble all girls whom it{he} met before... She{It} was harmonous, slow, under dense black eyebrowes the big grey eyes shined, and a head decorated long, heavy . She{it} has arrived to Petersburg to act{arrive} in the Academy of arts, and has remained in this city for ever. She{it} has found here of what is not courageous to dream and in the most courageous dreams.
It{He} has fallen in love with it{her} as the boy. First it{he} at all did not understand, that to it{him} occurs: near to it{her} it{he} felt sharp attacks of loneliness. It was very similar to how the person, from thirst in desert, near to a source feels tortures more sharply. It{he} avoided her{it}, was hidden on the half of house, but should force to not think in any way itself of it{her}.
Father of her{it}, having learned{having found out}, however coldly she{it} has costed with the groom, disturbed, has gone to Petersburg here again has learned{has found out} that all knew: his{its} daughter and Mendeleyev like each other. However hopes at them any was not. divorce to allow did not agree, and father Anna ordered to demand to it{her} from Mendeleyev, that it{he} will not search with it{her} for meetings. Mendeleyev promised.
But promised . It{he} simply could not constrain the word. It{him} attracted in those places where as it{he} knew, it was possible to meet her{it}. It{he} entered into a building of the Academy of arts and waited for her{it}, being hidden for columns, disappearing in shadows of halls. It{he} also behaves as the boy.
Father Anna undertakes one more step: it{he} sends the daughter for the winter to Italy.
There was a frosty December, and Mendeleyev, looking in a window of the car, compressed a hat in hands. It was foggy, and it seemed to it{him}, that they more never will meet...
She{It} has left, and it{he} wrote to it{her} the letter behind the letter and lowered{omitted} them in a box attached to a table behind which worked. In fact it{he} promised to not remind of itself(himself)...
Then it{he} accepted time to go to Algeria - on chemical congress. His{its} friend
- Beketov, seeing hopeless despair with which Mendeleyev got ready for a trip, has not born and has rushed off to in . On what it{he} expected, knowing her{it}, it was not clear, however contrary to any reasonable logic has managed to convince her{it} to give freedom to the husband. Having secured with the consent to divorce, Beketov on wings has departed to Petersburg and has hardly - hardly found Mendeleyev before departure for quay.
The steamship has moored in Algeria, but Mendeleyev onboard was not. It{he} was in Rome. Near it{her}.
From Rome - if only to remain together, they have rushed to Africa, have come to be in Egypt, then - in Spain. And in Rome - so hastened - to anybody have not said goodbye...
But up to full happiness it is still far. The church has imposed on Mendeleyev's marriage{spoilage} - an interdiction, and it{he} seven years had no right to marry. One year later the Kronstadt priest has broken this interdiction and has married Dmitry Ivanovicha to Anna Ivanovnoj and for other day in punishment has been deprived the dignity.
Such they had love. Difficult, beautiful, painful and happy. Mendeleyev what it{he} touched in a life, was always given all - with passion, in a mighty impulse. So it{he} liked, so destroyed enemies so worked - day by day - all life.
Were at him{it} and hobby, but even they turned to the big, serious business.
Successively Mendeleyev is a lot of years was engaged in research of gases, he{it} had the most serious proceedings this theme. But it{he} reflects and about the friend: <Russia... Owns the most extensive against all other educated countries coast still a free atmosphere. Russian therefore and to seize the last... With the device accessible to all and a cosy impellent shell...> And is farther: <... To attach to a balloon hermetically sealed, , the elastic device for a premise{room} of the observer which then will be provided with compressed air and can safely do{make} for itself definitions and operate a sphere>. In fact that is surprising! About a tight gondola it{he} wrote for some tens years before , the subjugator of a stratosphere, for the first time has constructed such gondola. And the lowered device of a spacecraft on which Jury Gagarin came back to the ground? The same idea. Idea of a tight cabin...
August, seventh, 1887 Mendeleyev has achieved the sanction together with the pilot and one more researcher to rise on a sphere for supervision of a full solar eclipse. Grey rainy day was, all sky is tightened{delayed} by clouds, and a sphere filled with hydrogen, is lazy pulled cables. His{its} assistant V.E.Tishchenko has approached to Mendeleyev and has told: <Dmitry Ivanovich, at a balloon is not present elevating force. I see, I know business, to fly it is impossible, I assure you, it is impossible>.
Mendeleyev has answered, and in this answer it{he} was all - and as the scientist, and it is simple as the person: <the Balloon is too the physical device. You see, how many people watch{keep up} flight as behind scientific experience. I cannot undermine at them belief in a science>.
Together with pilot Mendeleyev through a board of a high basket and at once has understood: the sphere will not lift even two. And it{he} immediately decides to fly one. To think only: the person never earlier flying on a sphere, dares to fly alone!
In flight it{he} is cool, all does{makes} <on a science>, and having finished{stopped} all supervision, the cord going from the final valve finds out, that, has got confused and does not allow to open it{him}. Then Mendeleyev gets out of a basket, climbs up on and untangles an ill-starred cord...
Mendeleyev said goodbye to university in 1890, and it were the most depressing days in his{its} life. It{he} left not at the will - and that it was heavier this farewell. It{he} has got on a student's meeting, began to convince all , to it{him} have not listened, then it{he} has suggested students to write the requirements and has promised to inform this letter up to minister of education. The word it{he} has constrained also the student's petition has handed over minister. And that has soon returned the letter accompanied with a note in which did not remain places of an ambiguity: the one who will be in the service his{its} imperial majesty, <has no right to accept similar papers>. Minister, probably, not quite realized, to whom it{he} paid these words.
Mendeleyev did not begin to wait, while to it{him} will hint twice. It{he} has submitted to resignation. The rector of university has not accepted the application. Then Mendeleyev has simply taken and has put the paper sheet combined twice in a pocket of the rector.
It{He} has read up a rate up to the end. Last lecture has read superb though, probably, it dearly costed to it{him}. His{its} audience that day has been filled, as never: to say goodbye to it{him} there came students and others . Being afraid of excitements, in an audience have directed group of gendarmes. Having seen them in a hall, Mendeleyev was lowered{omitted} on a chair and, having put the big head on hands, has silently begun to cry...
But it is far from being the end. It{he} has not surrendered. Still worked more many. It{he} invents new, gunpowder which gets huge value for military science and which recipe on a criminal negligence of the government departures to America. Mendeleyev warned, that so can happen - and happened. And in 1914 Russian military department has bought some thousand tons of this gunpowder from the States. Americans, receiving gold from the Russia which has entered war, did not hide, that it < gunpowder>.
Then it{he} becomes the scientific keeper of Depot of exemplary measures and weights, conducts huge work on introduction of uniform metric system, personally defines{determines} weight of the standard of pound in grammes - with very big accuracy - up to the sixth sign after zero, moreover at war with bureaucrats, beating out money for reconstruction and expansion of a building. Then, it is visible, having given up as hopeless, has planned cunning: has organized visiting the Board of Weights and Measures by his{its} imperial highnes and before his{its} arrival ordered to pull out from cellars any unnecessary devices, boxes and to place all directly in corridors, on road, to create narrowness. Supervised over this work (on memoirs of his{its} employee O.Ozarovskoj) assiduously: <Under legs{foots}, under legs{foots}! To cross it was necessary! In fact will not understand, that is close, it is necessary, that stumbled, then will understand!> And in fact has excellent achieved, that wanted! Money distances!
Such it{he} was the inventor who is were fond and at the same time such constant. Has written somehow, already in an old age: <Itself I am surprised, that only I not on the scientific life>. Yes, the talent is many-sided. The genius - especially...
The genius? Having heard once as someone from his{its} pupils has made it aloud, has become angry seriously, has waved hands and has shouted it is quarrelsome: <What there the genius! The genius worked all life, and...> Is not present, all the same the genius.