RUSSIAN BOY PRODIGY AWARDED SCHOLARSHIP
MOSCDW, February 17. Tlie Government has awarded a special sdiolarship to a nine-year-old Moscow schodiboy, Alexander Kischchinsky, who learned to read at the age of two and to write fiuently when three years' old, according to the Soviet news agency. The boy's other feats include drawing a map of the world with astonishing preeision when three years' old. At the , ge of six he read a mon'umental volume on the animal world, and became interested in zfiology. He wrote when seven years' old a 20,0'00-word treatise on birds, illustrated with many drawings. He is now writing a large work on the birds of Russia.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5330, 18 February 1947, Page 5
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109RUSSIAN BOY PRODIGY AWARDED SCHOLARSHIP Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5330, 18 February 1947, Page 5
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