FORMATION AND ESTABLISHMENT OF SCIENTIFIC BASIS OF AMPELOGRAPHIC PRACTICE IN RUSSIAN EMPIRE (ІХХ – BEGINNING OF ХХ СENTURIES)

Abstract

The article analyzes foreign and domestic experience of ampelography, general trends in the process of its formation were revealed. Decisive influence of these vineyards on the theoretical and methodological foundations of ampelographic researches was proved. Particularly in the Russian Empire - it is collection of the Nikitsky Bo-tanical Garden Magarach ampelographic collection. Work of the International Ampelographic Commission was researched. It was aimed to improvement thr technique of ampelographic researches and coordination of these activities worldwide. The historiography of the ampelography works of the Russian Empire of the IX - beginning of the 20th century was studied.