petersburg, mendeleev lived in government apartments, and his first home was the boblov estate.ily, sent relatives from siberia, since dmitry ivanovich mendeleev was interested. soil science, fertilizers, then he applied all his research in practice it was here that he really proved that it is possible to run a successful farm in the middle zone. it was in these places that mendeleev risked his life for the sake of science when he took temperature measurements while rising into the sky in a hot air balloon. the valve turned out to be faulty, mendeleev repaired it and continued taking measurements. in 1919 , the estate was destroyed by fire, only a small one remained. shakhmatovo, where the poet alexander blok lived, who married mendeleev’s daughter lyubov. now they are going to create a mendeleev center for talented youth here, analogue of sirius. abstracts have been developed for the mendeleev center, which, according to the developers, should be located on the territory of the boblov estate, on the territory. this is an ordinary house, this is the gavrilovs’ apartment , mom, l