Svetoslavich, Hostile Pet. Miracle of Times of Vladimir the Red Sun

Varied interests and talents Fomicha Alexander Veltman, the diversity of its activities amazed contemporaries. Novelist and poet, historian and archaeologist, ethnographer and linguist, director of the Armory, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, he was a good friend of Pushkin, his works positively evaluated Belinsky and Chernyshevsky, about his work with great sympathy responded Dostoevsky and Tolstoy.