Георгий Владимирович Вернадский (материалы для психофизической биографии ребенка). Факты записывались матерью

Исследователь/Researcher. 2023. № 1-2. С. 155–209.

Вернадская Н. Е.

Editor of translation: Obukhov A., Е. И. Адамян

This is a publication of the first part of the diary of Natalia Vernadskaya, the wife of Vladimir Vernadsky, which she kept on the development of the first child — Georgy. The first part of the diary describes the birth, analyzes the literature on psychophysical development of children, relevant to the end of the 19th century, provides part of the daily observation records of the son in the first year of his life — in 1887–1888. The publication contains entries from August 20, 1887 to February 27, 1888. Some of the records have not been preserved in the archives, so there are gaps in the diary, although, clearly, the records were kept daily. The nature of the recordings and the focus of the author’s attention are indicative, on the one hand, for the stage of the first year of a child’s life, and on the other hand, they reflect the pediatric, psychological and pedagogical views of their time — the advanced layer of the scientific intelligentsia of the capital of the Russian Empire.

Keywords: child development, развитие ребенка, observation diary, first year of life, psychophysical biography of a child, дневник наблюдений, первый год жизни, психофизическая биография ребенка