RUSSIAN PRODIGY
COULD READ AT TWO (llec. 8 a.m.) MOSCOW, Feb. 16. . The Russian Government has awarded a special scholarship to a nine years’ old Moscow schoolboy, Alexander Kischchinsky, who learned to read when aged two, and to write fluently at three. According to the Soviet News Agency, the boy's other feats include drawing a map of the world with astonishing precision when three. At six he read a monumental tome of the animal world, and became interested in zoology. At seven he wrote a 20,000word treatise on birds, illustrated with many drawings. Kischchinsky is now writing a large-scale work on the birds of Russia.
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Evening Star, Issue 26028, 17 February 1947, Page 7
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105RUSSIAN PRODIGY Evening Star, Issue 26028, 17 February 1947, Page 7
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