Even though Dmitri's father died when he was young, Mendeleev strived. His mothers, Maria, glass factory burned down, so shemoved him and one of his sisters, Elizabeth, to Moscow. There he tried to enter a university but was rejected, so Maria moved them to Saint Petersburg. He then entered Pedagogical Institute, where his fther had worked before, and got in with the help of one of his fathers friends. With that he entered the shool with a full scholarship into the science teacher training program. Just after he was accepted his mother died of tuberculosis, followed by Elizabeth. He was on his own. Even though he contracted a disease that kept him in bed for a year, Mendeleev graduated on time an the first in his class. Dmitri's doctor told him he was to only live for two more years, but he was determined to continue his life. In 1855, he moved to Simferopol in the Crimean Peninsula to be the chief science master at the gymnasium. In 1856, Mendeleev returned to St. Petersburg, Russia and by 1859 he was ordered by the Minister of Public Instruction to go and develop scientific and tehnologial innovations, In 1863, he was named Professor of Chemistry at the Technological Institute. That same year Mendeleev married Feozva Nikitchna Lascheva, out of that marriage came two children, son Vladimir and daughter Olga. They divorced in 1882 and Dmitri married Anna Ivanova Popova a few months before the divorce was final. Their marriage lasted until death and they had four children, Liubov, Ivan, and wins named Vassili and Maria. By 1869, Mendeleev went on to critisize another chemistis reserch and showed him up by making detailed descriptions of over 60 elements. Then he presented a copy to the Russian Chemical Society on March, 6. In November of 1870, Mendeleev procedeed to say it was imposible to determine the properties of the elements, and then went on to predict the characteristics of the next three elements to be discovered. Mendeleev sadley died of influenza.