Bolotov's watercolour representing the chateau and park in Bogoroditsk (1786).

Andrey Timofeyevich Bolotov (18 October 1738 — 16 October 1833) was the most distinguished Russian agriculturist of the 18th century. Image File history File links Bogoroditsk. ... Image File history File links Bogoroditsk. ... Bogoroditsk (Russian: Богородицк) is a town in Tula Oblast in Russia, located on the Upyorta River (Upas tributary). ... October 18 is the 291st day of the year (292nd in leap years). ... Events February 4 - Court Jew Joseph Suss Oppenheimer is executed in Württenberg April 15 - Premiere in London of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel. ... October 16 is the 289th day of the year (290th in leap years). ... Year 1833 (MDCCCXXXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Agriculture (a term which encompasses farming) is the art, science or practice of producing food, feed, fiber and many other goods by the systematic raising of plants and animals. ... (17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ...

Bolotov was born and spent most of his adult life in the family estate of Dvoryaninovo, in the Tula region to the south of Moscow. He was brought up by his parents in Livland, where his father's regiment was stationed. After taking part in the Seven Years' War he settled into retirement in Dvoryaninovo. Tula (Russian: ) is an industrial city in the European part of Russia, located 165 km to the south of Moscow, on the river Upa, at . ... Guberniya (Russian: ) (also gubernia, guberniia, gubernya) was a major administrative subdivision of the Imperial Russia, usually translated as governorate or province. ... Position of Moscow in Europe Coordinates: Country District Subdivision Russia Central Federal District Federal City Government  - Mayor Yuriy Luzhkov Area  - City 1,081 km²  (417. ... This article is about the region in Europe. ... Combatants Prussia Great Britain Hanover Portugal Brunswick Hesse-Kassel Austria France Russia Sweden Spain Saxony Naples and Sicily Sardinia The Seven Years War(i) (1754 and 1756–1763), incorporating the Pomeranian War and the French and Indian War enveloped both European and colonial theatres. ...

During his life there, he brought out a pioneering manual on crop rotation and elaborated an innovative system of pomology which included more than 600 cultivars of apple and pear. Always interested in plant breeding, Bolotov discovered dichogamy of apple-trees and pointed out to the advantages of cross-pollination. Satellite image of circular crop fields in Haskell County, Kansas in late June 2001. ... Pomology (from Latin pomum (fruit) + -logy) is is branch of botany that studies and cultivates fruits. ... This Osteospermum Pink Whirls is a successful cultivar. ... Plant breeding is the purposeful manipulation of plant species in order to create desired genotypes and phenotypes for specific purposes. ... Dichogamy is the temporal separation of gender in hermaphroditic organisms (e. ... Cross pollination is a form of pollination in which pollen from one plant pollinates another. ...

Bolotov's works brought him to the attention of Count Orlov, who asked him to manage the neighbouring estate of Bobriki, where Catherine II's illegitimate son, Count Bobrinsky, was being raised. Bolotov turned Bobriki into the most up-to-date agricultural estate in provincial Russia and ensured the keen interest which later Counts Bobrinsky would take in agriculture. Count Grigory Orlov Orlov (Орлов) is the name of a Russian noble family which produced several distinguished statesmen, diplomatists and soldiers. ... Novomoskovsk (Russian: ), called Bobriki () before 1934 and Stalinogorsk () between 1934 and 1961, is a city in Tula Oblast, Russia, located at the source of the Don and Shat Rivers some 230 km south of Moscow, at . ... Catherine the Great redirects here. ... First Count Bobrinsky in infancy (1760s). ...

Bolotov was also active in the Free Economic Society, which published his treatise on forestry. Together with Nikolay Novikov, he edited the journals The Village Resident (1778-79) and The Magazine of Economics (1780-89), which brought him the income of 400 roubles a year, a very considerable sum for the time. His extensive memoirs, entitled Life and Adventures of Andrei Bolotov, in 26 parts and written between 1789 and 1816, went through several editions and were translated in English. Bolotov died in Dvoryaninovo aged 96. this entire page is full of crap, actually i dont know but hey i can try right? ... A decidous beech forest in Slovenia. ... Portrait of Nikolay Novikov, by Dmitry Levitzky. ... 1789 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1816 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...

References

• Бердышев А. П. А. Т. Болотов - первый русский учёный агроном. М., 1949