JULY 17 (in a new style) of 1846 NICHOLAS AND MAKLAY NN was born. Ethnography, anthropology and biology, the genesis of animal species and human races - all these branches of natural science, which Miklouho-Maclay was born under the sign of Cancer, are in the planetary jurisdiction of the mistress of this sign is the MOON, which also controls the year of the Stork. Perhaps because in the horoscope of the Russian explorer of the Indonesian islands, the Moon, managing both the year and the month of his birth, was in exaltation (the strongest evolutionary position), he was given the opportunity to fully manifest the qualities of the celestial totem.
A tireless researcher, a man who became the national hero of New Guinea, who traveled the roads of Europe, Asia and Australia, studied a huge number of islands of the Atlantic, Southeast Asia and Oceania, was born in the modest Russian village of Rozhdestvenskoy Novgorod province. Who could have imagined that a boy born in the family of an ordinary engineer would become a famous ethnographer, see almost the whole world and leave behind a huge collection that now forms the basis of the exposition of the museum of anthropology and ethnography in St. Petersburg? And this is the same person who was denied higher education in Russia for participating in student unrest.
At the beginning of his scientific career, the revolutionary-minded student Nikolai Miklukho (not yet Maclay) was expelled from St. Petersburg University without the right to enter higher educational institutions of the Russian Empire. A knowledgeable young man was forced to leave his homeland in order to continue his education abroad. For two years he attended lectures at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Heidelberg in Germany, then studied medicine in Leipzig and Jena, which was very useful for him in the future. At the age of 19, as part of a group of German scientists, he embarks on the first distant journey to the Canary Islands, which lasted almost a year, and a year later he made an independent journey on the Red Sea coast. At 23, the future is the luminary of anthropology, but for now just an enthusiastic scientist returns to Petersburg, where he manages in the Russian Geographical Society to approve a program to travel across the Pacific Islands to study physical geography, meteorology, zoology and anthropology of this region of the planet. Only after 12 years (the cycle of JUPITER - the planet of education, distant trips and public recognition), the “prodigal son” Miklouho-Maclay returns to Russia and receives recognition.
The life journey of a tireless researcher was tortuous and thorny. The hardy traveler was saved by innate patience (SATURN in the royal degree at the monastery in Aquarius) and indifference to the benefits of civilization. The spirit of adventurism pushed Miklouho-Maclay to the constant change of places, his living mind constantly needed everything in new food.
