mickiewicz dedicated it to skolkovsky. a poem that the skolkovsky coast cherished like a shrine, it wasin odessa, in the office of novorossiysk governor-general mikhail varantsov, he has access to study the archives of the novorossiysk region. skolkovsky served as head of the odessa statistical committee for more than 50 years. during this time, he became one of the founders of the odessa society of history and antiquity, the first to create an organized historical archive of the city and wrote a book on the history of odessa. at all the pearl by the sea owes him a lot. initially, the russian empire had an idea to create a university in the south in the city of nikolaev. it was skolkovsky’s note, with his reasoning that odessa is a much more important city in the south, and that it was there that novorossiysk university should be organized, as such an educational center of the novorossiysk region, that played its role. under skolkovsky , two population censuses took place in odessa in the thirties and fifties of the century. in a very short time, he was able to obtain extensive informat