where did dmitri mendeleev study science?
Saint Petersburg State University Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg
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 Bukovsky moved to Great Britain where he settled in Cambridge and resumed his studies in biology , disrupted fifteen years earlier ( see above ) by his expulsion from Moscow University . 

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 In 1876 , Chekhov 's father was declared bankrupt after overextending his finances building a new house . To avoid debtor 's prison he fled to Moscow , where his two eldest sons , Alexander and Nikolay , were attending university . The family lived in poverty in Moscow , Chekhov 's mother physically and emotionally broken by the experience . Chekhov was left behind to sell the family 's possessions and finish his education . 

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 Belevitch was educated in French but continued to speak Russian to his mother until she died . In fact , he was able to speak many languages , and could read even more . He studied Sanskrit and the etymology of Indo @-@ European languages . 

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 In 1892 , Chekhov bought the small country estate of Melikhovo , about forty miles south of Moscow , where he lived with his family until 1899 . " It 's nice to be a lord , " he joked to his friend Ivan Leontyev ( who wrote humorous pieces under the pseudonym Shcheglov ) , but he took his responsibilities as a landlord seriously and soon made himself useful to the local peasants . As well as organising relief for victims of the famine and cholera outbreaks of 1892 , he went on to build three schools , a fire station , and a clinic , and to donate his medical services to peasants for miles around , despite frequent recurrences of his tuberculosis . 

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 In the autumn of 1885 , the twelve @-@ year @-@ old Rachmaninoff entered the home of Nikolai Zverev to receive private piano instruction and at the end of May 1886 , Zverev took his students to Crimea , where Rachmaninoff continued his studies , hoping to gain entrance to Anton Arensky 's harmony class at the Moscow Conservatory . It was during this time that Rachmaninoff created his first composition , a two @-@ page Étude in F @-@ sharp major ( the manuscript is now lost ) . After admission to the class , he produced more exercises , the earliest of which is a Lento in D minor ; it is the only surviving piece of ten he is said to have composed . 
