Early works by Zhukovsky on the kinematics of a liquid body

This article analyzes the largest and most important works of N. E. Zhukovsky (1847-1921), related to the development of theoretical hydrodynamics: on the kinematics of a liquid body, on the motion of a solid body having a cavity filled with a homogeneous droplet liquid and on the modification of the Kirchhoff method.
The work is devoted to the 170th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Russian scientist Nikolai Egorovich Zhukovsky.