The history of agraphia dates to the mid-fourteenth century, but it was not until the second half of the nineteenth century that it sparked significant clinical interest.
A civil servant promoted to the fourteenth grade gained personal nobility ("dvoryanstvo"), and holding an office in the eighth grade endowed the office holder with hereditary nobility.
These had lost pre-eminence in medieval manuscript culture, characterized by the university, but had begun to undergo a rebirth in the fourteenth century.
He obtained a broadcast engineer license three days after his fourteenth birthday, and worked at a local radio station as a disk jockey while still in high school.