. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. May 7,1908.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 181 Editorial, Notices, &c. ©bituarp. M. A. F. ZOTJBAREFF. We regret to have to announce the death, at the ripe age of 87 years, of M. A. F. Zoubareff, one of the leading pioneers of modern bee-keeping in Russia. M. Zoubareff was born in 1821, and retired after thirty-five years of Govern- ment service. He was also a member of several benevolent societies, and in the later years of his life devoted his leisure time to bee-keeping. Owing to his wife's delicate health, he spent several winters in Swi
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. May 7,1908.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 181 Editorial, Notices, &c. ©bituarp. M. A. F. ZOTJBAREFF. We regret to have to announce the death, at the ripe age of 87 years, of M. A. F. Zoubareff, one of the leading pioneers of modern bee-keeping in Russia. M. Zoubareff was born in 1821, and retired after thirty-five years of Govern- ment service. He was also a member of several benevolent societies, and in the later years of his life devoted his leisure time to bee-keeping. Owing to his wife's delicate health, he spent several winters in Switzerland, and we first made his acquaintance in 1883, when staying at Geneva with our friend M. Bertrand. M. Zoubareff was much in- terested in all appertaining to bee-keep- ing and at that time was using; the ver-. MONS. A. F. ZOUBAREFF educated at the Imperial School of Juris- prudence, St. Petersburg, where he had the late M. Pobedonostseff, Procurator of the Holy Synod of Russia, as a fellow student, the latter being six years his junior, and whom he survived by eleven months. M. Zoubareff was a member of the Senate and a Privy Councillor, and tical "Berlepsch" hive. But after the many interesting discussions we had on the subject he decided to adopt our style of hive, opening at the top and having longer and shallower frames, as in the "Dadant" and " British " standard-frame hives. On his return to St. Petersburg in 1884. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original London
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