The marriage was happy, but short-lived - August Wagner died suddenly, leaving his wife Yegor's son and daughter Maria.

Shortly after graduating from the university, Yegor Avgustovich married Alexandra Mikhailovna Lvova, the daughter of the director of the Kazan Gymnasium.

Yegor inherited artistic inclinations from his mother - he loved to read the poems of famous poets expressively, especially Pushkin and Lermontov.

When the old pharmacist Bachman died, Yegor was sent to a private boarding house, located near the city of Venden in the Livonian province (the territory of present-day Latvia).

For Yegor Wagner, accustomed to unlimited freedom and complete independence, the transition to life in the new conditions was quite painfull, and at first conflicts often occurred.

Yegor Avgustovich met his son without a word of reproach and only joked: “Well, brother, you are a perfect Lomonosov, just the opposite: he fled with a convoy to study, and you ran away from study.”[3] Returning home, Yegor began to intensively prepare for admission to University of Kazan, and two years later, in June 1867, he passed the entrance examinations to the Faculty of Law.

[5] The dissertation on the topic "Synthesis of diethylcarbinol, a new isomer of amyl alcohol" was defended by Wagner in the autumn of 1874 and received a positive assessment from the reviewers.

Having received the degree of candidate of natural sciences, in the same autumn, twenty-five-year-old Yegor Yegorovich, on the proposal of A.M. Zaitsev was offered to work at University of Kazan to prepare for a professorship.

In August 1875, on the recommendation of Zaitsev, Wagner was sent to St. Petersburg University to continue work on the synthesis of secondary alcohols in the laboratory of A.M.

[7] In addition, the young scientist repeatedly spoke at meetings of the Russian Chemical Society, where the most important representatives of domestic chemistry gathered.

Messages about his work aroused constant interest, due to the novelty of ideas, and important results, and the outstanding oratorical abilities of Wagner himself.

Egor Egorovich dreamed of developing a general method for obtaining secondary alcohols by the action of various zinc alkyls on aldehydes of different homologous series.

Despite the low level of teaching and the rather tense atmosphere at the university, Yegor Yegorovich did not lose his spirit, even if he had to lecture in an almost empty auditorium.

He managed to earn the respect of both students and fellow teachers, and to a large extent contributed to the improvement of educational and methodological work.

Having completed the development of a general method for the synthesis of secondary alcohols, Wagner set himself the task of studying the laws of ketone oxidation.

A month after the defense, Egor Egorovich Wagner was approved as a professor at the Novo-Alexandria Institute at the Department of General and Analytical Chemistry.

Immediately after starting work at the university, Egor Egorovich began scientific research, choosing as his task the study of the oxidation of unsaturated organic compounds of various classes in order to determine their structure.

The sample is considered positive if the permanganate solution quickly becomes colorless in an acidic environment or turns brown in an alkaline and neutral one.

Yegor Yegorovich selected students on the basis of one single sign - a penchant for scientific research and the ability to work selflessly.

In the 1990s, research on terpenes began on a broad front in the laboratories of Warsaw University in order to shed light on their complex structure.

Many well-known chemists of that time tried to establish the structure of these compounds, but the task was not easy due to the tendency of terpenes to rearrange, reciprocate and polymerize.

Vera Aleksandrovna received an excellent education, she was passionate about theater, painting, knew Russian literature brilliantly and read the works of European classics in the originals.

He was interested in every little thing in the life of his children, and if one of the guys fell ill, Yegor Yegorovich simply could not find a place for himself from anxiety.

Five years of Petersburg life passed, and in 1880 a terrible blow fell on Yegor Yegorovich - Vera Alexandrovna died of consumption.

Having lost his beloved wife and faithful friend, Wagner was close to suicide; only the moral support of his aunt Maria Avgustovna, his father's sister, who hastily arrived in St. Petersburg, saved him.

Together with her, two sons of Yegor Yegorovich from their first marriage left Warsaw, following the example of their father, they entered University of Kazan and specialized in chemistry with A.M. Zaitsev.