About the heroes of old times...

DMITRIEV GEORGE V.
A member of the FIELD (Penza Society of Natural History Lovers), an associate of Sprygin I. I. participated with him in the formation of the Zhiguli Reserve, with the dispersal in the late 20s, FIELD also left the local history museum where, after Olsufyev, he was in charge of the entomology office and supervised insect collections in the Penza province of that time (apart from the museum collection, there were also scientific collections of insects on cotton wool - 40 thousand copies. their fate is unknown). After the war, he worked in Ukraine as an entomologist in Kiev's forest parks, monitoring pests in forest parks. Author of articles and two books...

Here is the author's copy of the book presented to the library of the Penza Museum of Local Lore by the author himself. Is it possible to buy such a book?

Here is a photo from the Penza conference of provincial local historians in 1925-Dmitriev singled out in a circle.

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Predtechenskiy S. A., if I'm not mistaken, worked in the Tambov region. I have his work on vertebrates in the Tambov Region. I don't remember the exact release date, until about the 30s.

Predtechensky S. A. was a well-known specialist in the Russian Federation's right-winged animals. In 1925-1927, he studied the locust fauna of the entire territory of the semidesert and desert zone of the Lower Volga region, and published the results in his generalizing work " Locusts of the Lower Volga Region "(1928) ...

I don't know if it's the same Predtechensky, but...
Predtechenskiy S. A. On the fauna of terrestrial vertebrates in Tambov province//Proceedings of the Tambov Society for the Study of Nature and Culture of the Local Region. Tambov, 1928, No. 3, pp. 3-31

I believe that there should be a certain number of documents about N. F. Ikonnikov in the Moscow archives. I note that the article in the" Yearbook " was submitted from the Zoological Museum.

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they say Ikonnikov was a spy (intelligence officer)
see the new book Diaries of Mochulsko

they say Ikonnikov was a spy (intelligence officer) see the new book Mochulsky's Diaries

You would be "stuck" in that "time": to see which of you will get the status: "spy", "razvechchik" or "nobody"... Zhist broke and not "such"...

I once remembered Ikonnikov in a conversation with Sviridov from the Moscow State University ZM, because there are his collections that I partially processed, and Sviridov said that Ikonnikov was a White Guard agent for the Reds. But I didn't get into the Cheka, I left in time, and I lived either in France or in Latin. America to a respectable old age. I didn't remember the details - I didn't need to. Therefore, Ikonnikov was in deep oblivion during the Soviet period, and now he is not yet appreciated.

Searches for materials about the now Penza scientist N. F. Ikonnikov in libraries, the Internet and various archives have so far allowed us to find this:

"The memory of one's ancestors, the feeling of one's family, is a good feeling, a historical feeling, quite respectable," Ivan Sergeevich Aksakov, the ideologist of Slavophils, reasonably remarked back in the XIX century. And one of the first to engage in genealogical research of Russian noble families was Nikolai Flegontovich Ikonnikov, who came from a family of hereditary nobles.

The Ikonnikovs owned 4,500 dessiatines of land in the Kuznetsk Uyezd. Here, in the village of Annenkovo, five versts from the ancestral nest of the Radishchev nobles (Upper Ablyazovo), Nikolai was born in 1885. The young man graduated from the third Moscow Classical Gymnasium with a gold medal, having discovered during his studies "excellent progress in the sciences, especially in mathematics and physics." In 1903, he was enrolled in the Natural Sciences Department of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Moscow University, majoring in zoology.
Soon, as part of two large scientific expeditions to South America, Ikonnikov crossed the jungle with the Indians from Lima to Iquitos. For this expedition, which brought the richest collections of American flora, the Russian Society of Lovers of Natural Science, Anthropology and Ethnography awarded a promising young scientist with a large silver medal. The Academy of Sciences commissioned young Ikonnikov to write a chapter on grasshoppers for the Fauna of Russia series.
In 1911, Nikolai Flegontovich was elected leader of the nobility of the Kuznetsk uyezd of the Saratov province. He combined these duties with the equally troublesome position of chairman of the Kuznetsk Zemstvo Council. There was no time left for science classes, so they had to be abandoned.
With the beginning of the First World War, Ikonnikov launched the production of soldiers ' greatcoats and shoes. In 1915, under his leadership, more than 600 thousand sheepskin coats and about a million pairs of boots were prepared for the army. After the October Revolution, Nikolai Flegontovich moved to the Don, where a Volunteer Army was being formed. Here begins a page in Ikonnikov's life, like a famously twisted adventure novel. Appointed to the post of quartermaster, he regarded his work as a sinecure and therefore asked the commander-in-chief, General Mikhail Vasilyevich Alekseev, to give him some responsible assignment…
Soon Ikonnikov appears in Moscow and gets a job in the structure formed by the Bolsheviks for the transportation and distribution of sugar throughout the country — Glavsakhar. Here he organizes the transfer of supporters of the White Movement who were in Moscow across the front line. The established scheme operated for 15 months and collapsed due to an article in the White Guard newspaper that opened the eyes to the true activities of the Glavsakhar. The article became known in Moscow. Arrests and shootings began, and a reward of $ 5,000 was promised for Ikonnikov's head. He barely managed to get to Kiev, then ended up in the Crimea, from where, together with Wrangel's army, he went into exile.
Since 1924, Nikolai Flegontovich lives in France, where he begins to study Russian genealogy. For a long time, he was almost the only expert in this field. He gained practical experience working with genealogical documents when he was a district leader of the nobility. Now he headed the Genealogical Bureau of the Union of Russian Nobles.
The main work of Nikolai Flegontovich was the grandiose work "The Nobility of Russia". It is the most comprehensive guide to the genealogy of the Russian nobility, containing monographs on more than 700 surnames. However, Ikonnikov, cut off from the archives, mainly used family traditions, information of contemporaries about the fate of their relatives. Therefore, in the paintings included in his books, as a rule, there is no ancient part of the family history.
Ikonnikov's genealogical reference books went through several editions, very small in circulation (the last one was published in 1956-1966). They are not identical, since almost every time additions or corrections were made to the murals. In addition to genealogical reference books, Ikonnikov compiled and published "Necropolies — - lists of representatives of the Russian nobility who died in the first half of the XX century.
Until now, the scientific heritage of Ikonnikov is the largest genealogical collection. The Saratov nobleman Nikolai Flegontovich Ikonnikov died in 1970 and is buried in the cemetery of Saint-Genevieve-des-Bois in Paris. Nearby lies his wife, Elizaveta Petrovna, nee Dekonskaya.

Natalia Samokhvalova, employee of the State Archive of the Saratov Region.

If you are interested, here is a whole story about the adventures of "Kuznetsk cousin Benedict":

http://old-saratov.ru/foto.php?id=824

And here's what I found to my surprise recently:

On the Internet appeared on sale his book COMPLETELY unknown in Russia!?

Ikonnikov N. Five Hundred days behind enemy lines. Report on a business trip to Soviet Russia in 1918.

Year of publication 1933
Publisher Paris
Binding publishing covers, double semi-leather case
Book format 22 x 17
Author of the book Ikonnikov N.
Volume 50

The manuscript of the book was once given by the author to the wife of Baron Wrangel and published in 1933 in Paris. The book tells about the events that led to the creation of Glavsakhar and the author's activities in this organization in 1918. However, few people know that in addition to the main tasks — supplying young Soviet Russia with sugar — the author was secretly sending those who wanted to join the Volunteer Army in the south. In his memoirs, Nikolai Ikonnikov gives a lot of interesting facts about life in Russia in the first year of Soviet power.

Ikonnikov Nikolay Flegontovich (1885-1970). Chemist, entomologist, genealogist, public figure. Leader of the Kuznetsk nobility and chairman of the zemstvo of the Kuznetsk uyezd. During the First World War, Quartermaster of the Don Army. Member of the Central Council of Landowners under the Provisional Government. During the Civil War, he directed the transportation of sugar for armies and logistics. In 1920 he emigrated to Yugoslavia, and in 1924 he moved to Paris. Editor of the "Bulletin of the Union of Russian Nobles" (1927,1931). In 1936-1939, he was head of the sales department at the Condé Nast publishing house, and from 1947 he worked in the editorial office of Décors d'aujourd'hui. Member of the Council of the Union of Russian Nobles in Paris, since 1938 Chairman of the Genealogical Department. Member of the Central Genealogical Commission under the Council of the Union of Russian Nobles in Europe. He printed 11 volumes of the series "La Noblesse Russe" ("Russian Nobility") and handwritten 33 other volumes of this series.

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Is there anyone on the site from Rostov-on-Don? I can't get in touch with their teaching institute. We need information on one stalker who worked for a long time in their Department of zoology. Maybe someone knows how to contact them???

Is there anyone on the site from Rostov-on-Don? I can't get in touch with their teaching institute. We need information on one stalker who worked for a long time in their Department of zoology. Maybe someone knows how to contact them???

who was he chasing?
I'm from Rostov.

Yes, no of course I made a mistake, there should be - to the teacher. We need data on I. P. Kerensky
As it was possible to find out...

KERENSKY, IVAN PORFIRIEVICH

Since the 1920s, the Department of Zoology was headed by I. P. Kerensky, who headed it until 1952. A well-educated, erudite man, and an excellent lecturer, I. P. Kerensky, together with the teachers of the department, carried out a great deal of scientific and educational work. In 1922, he took an active part in the organization of the Faculty of Education, becoming its first dean, and in 1931 headed the Faculty of Natural Sciences. Together with I. P. Kerensky, A.V. Martynov, Yu. M. Gurvich, A. N. Rozanova, A. N. Bartenev, and A.V. Mitropolsky worked at the department. After the retirement of Ivan Porfirievich Kerensky, the department was headed by Associate Professor M. A. Beskrovny in 1952.

We need their biography, photo(s), and list of publications. I'll pay your expenses.
Write on the website of the Penza branch of REO: entomol-penza@yandex.ru

Yes, please find out if there are any bee collections (the beginning of the last century) from the territory of the Penza province at their department. Yes, I think I was told that it should have data in their library... I wrote to them , but they are silent as partisans.

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I have a couple of Kerensky's works:
Kerenski J. Beobachtungen uber die Entwicklung der Eier von Anisoplia austriaca Reitt. // Zeitschrift fur angewandte entomologie. 1918. 178-188.
Kerensky I. P. Observations on the development of bread beetle eggs / / Izv. ped. inst., vol. 8. 1938. 13-21. (indicated as an excerpt from the work "Bread beetle in the Azov-Black Sea region")
By the way, Arzanov Yu. G. worked at the department at the Pedagogical Institute for a long time

At one time, Yuri Genrikhovich sent me to the pedagogical institute... (he was ill at the time and had nothing to do with it... ) I contacted the ornithologists also sent there...

Are there any references to the Penza material???

In the Moscow zoo Museum, A. Sviridov will probably tell you something about Ikonnikov. somehow on the ear... A.V. is also a specialist in searching genealogical archives, at least..

It was this Ikonnikov who collected, wrote and published a multi-volume book on the genealogy of the Russian nobility abroad.

Dear colleagues!

The Biographical and Bibliographic reference book of Lepidopterologists of Russia is being prepared for publication, which will contain information about several thousand lepidopterologists who worked in the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, the CIS countries and Russia, who studied and collected butterflies (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera, Cheterocera) of this territory in the period from the 19th century to the present. If you are interested in having information about yourself included in this major publication, please provide the authors with brief information about yourself according to the following plan (individual items may not be filled in, free presentation is allowed, the entire text is up to 2 pages in A4 format):

1. Last name, first name, patronymic
2. Date and place of birth
3. Nationality
4. Specialty (profession)
5. Academic degree
6. Academic titles
7. Membership in scientific societies (REO, MOIP, etc.), starting from what year
8. Awards and honorary titles
9. Brief biography (education, place of work, position, dates, etc.)
10. Area of interest in lepidopterology (groups and sections of Lepidoptera, biology, ecology, taxonomy, phylogeny, photography, collecting, etc., please explain)
11. Expeditions and excursions (year, location)
12. Brief description of the collection (if any)
13. Main publications on lepidopterology (up to 5-6 titles) or links to your personal website
14. E-mail:
15. Photo (portrait, year), any other photos (all in electronic form)

Please send your information to the authors by E-mail: va-korolev@bk.
After editing, the article about you will be sent to you for review and approval.

Thank you in advance,

Korolev Vladimir Aleksandrovich, Tuzov Vasily Konstantinovich

  
KERENSKY IVAN Porfiryevich
We need his biography, photo(s) and list of publications.

If you are still interested in materials on Kerensky, the attached article first published his apparently only surviving photo.

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I recently read a very interesting and instructive article - many thanks to the authors: N. V. Kupriyanov and A. A. Fedotova.

"If English entomologists collected like ours...": B. P. Uvarov's first letter from London to A. P. Semenov-Tyan-Shansky / / STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF BIOLOGY. 2015. Volume 7. No. 4

With great amazement, at the end of the published letter, I saw a question about my fellow entomologist Ikonnikov N. F. How small the world is... An annoying mistake crept into the publication - Nikolai Flegontovich was not an amateur entomologist, but a professional entomologist! After all, in 1911, he wrote a chapter on grasshoppers (about 400 pages) for the series "Fauna of Russia" and handed it over to the Academy (I wonder what its fate is???)...

UVAROV BORIS PETROVICH / 05.11.1888, Uralsk, Russia - 18.03.1970, London, Great Britain/, scientist in the field of entomology, zoography, ecology.
Father-Peter Ivanovich, was an employee of the State Bank; mother-Alexandra Ivanovna, was engaged in raising 3 sons, Boris was the youngest. Great lovers of nature, parents managed to instill this passion in their sons. U. received his primary education at home, and then - at the agricultural school (1895-1902). From 1904 to 1906, he continued his education at the Mining School of Yekaterinoslavl. From an early age, U. was interested in studying insects, collecting them. Under the influence of the agricultural school teacher S. Zhuravlev, this interest developed into a deep study of biology and entomology. U. left the school and entered St. Petersburg University, where he became a student of professors V. Shimkevich, M. Wagner, A. Dogel, Yu.Filipchenko, A. Lyubishchev. All of them were active members of the Russian Entomological Society, which in the late 19th and early 20th centuries had a worldwide reputation. After graduating with honors from the University in 1910, U. received a degree in zoology and in the same year married a native of St. Petersburg, a noblewoman Anna Fyodorovna Prodanyuk. He preferred the practical work of an entomologist to purely scientific work at the university. Together with his wife, he moved to Transcaucasia, where he received a position as an entomologist, and then moved to Stavropol, where he worked from 1911 to 1915. There he organized the first Entomological Bureau in Russia and became its director. In 1915-1920, U. held a similar position in Tiflis, where he also organized a Bureau for the control of Harmful Insects. During these years, his research interests were finally determined : the study of the vast superfamily of locusts (Acridoidea), mass pests of agricultural crops. Successfully combining field experiments and observations with scientific and teaching activities, U. productively fulfilled the duties of chief entomologist of Transcaucasia, Professor of entomology at the University and head of the entomological Department of the Museum of Natural History of Georgia.
The post-revolutionary situation in Russia did not allow U. to continue working, this was the main reason for his departure in 1920 to London, where he was offered the position of chief specialist of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology. For the first 10 years of emigration, U. remained a "desk" scientist. During these years, he essentially created and developed a new direction in biology, devoted to the study of the group effect and its morphological, physiological, and population effects on animal organisms. At the same time, he created his classic works on the taxonomy and nutrition of locusts, which became the reference books of acridologists.
In the 30-40s, the scientific and organizational activity of the scientist flourished. In 1945, U. created the Center for Locust Control, which later grew into an advanced institution with the highest authority and received international status. U. was the first director of the Center (until 1959). His main merit was the resolution of the main issue in the study of locusts - determining the causes of an extremely intensive increase in the herd of locusts. U. developed "phase theory", which has received worldwide recognition. He determined that the mass occurrence of locusts, which is directly related to the herd phases of their existence, occurs only as a result of the category of ecological polymorphism discovered by them. This phenomenon causes an extremely rapid increase in the number of locust individuals, and then such a rapid decrease in their number. He also found that the formation of the herd phase of locusts is a direct consequence of the rise of the breeding wave associated with climatic conditions. he revealed the subtle mechanisms of changes in the density of individuals in locust populations and kuligs: an increase in the density of individuals is reflected in the activation of the nervous and endocrine systems of insects, which in turn causes accelerated development of individuals, increases their activity, changes their morphology, leading to the formation of a herd phase. The phenomenon of the herd phase, discovered by U., is currently being used in the development of effective pest control measures.
The broad ecological aspect of studying the morpho-functional organization of individual development and the living conditions of zoological objects made it possible for U. to develop a new systematic approach to the study of organisms, which was just beginning to penetrate the zoological sciences. U.'s" Theory of Phases "is closely connected with the teachings of V. Vernadsky, who was followed by U.'s "Theory of Phases". he noted that the inability to fully realize the biotic potential of species in nature is a consequence of the limiting influence of the environment - under its influence, either a decrease in fertility or the death of some of the offspring occurs. These deviations from normal indicators are constantly eliminated, and thus the ecological compliance of the body and the environment is constantly restored. Finally, it was recommended to analyze changes in the number of individuals in the population as a result of those influences that violate and restore the consistency of the "organism and environment"system. On the basis of these provisions, the concept of heliobiological dependence of the rhythmicity and cyclicity of mass reproduction of animals is formed.
From 1959 to 1961, W. headed the Royal Entomological Society of London. In addition, he was an honorary member of entomological societies in several countries (France, the Netherlands, Egypt, India, and Russia). He was awarded many foreign orders, including the highest award of Great Britain - the "Order of the Garter".
Despite the fact that U. spent half a century of his life in a foreign country, he always remained Russian, reached out to his fellow compatriots, shared his thoughts and achievements with them, and was interested in their success. He corresponded with his university friend A. Lyubishchev, and the well-known entomologists G. Beybiyenko and F. Kolesnikov.Pravdinym. Through these leaders of scientific schools, he exerted a certain influence on the formation of the circle of his students and followers.
Two years before his death, after a 47-year hiatus, U. was able to set foot on his native land. As an honorary guest of the Academy of Sciences, he attended the 13th International Congress of Entomologists in Moscow in 1968. In his report, he spoke about the big environmental problems that are coming to our planet. Already in those years, he warned that before implementing any land use projects, it is necessary to make a preliminary ecological and faunal prediction of the possible environmental and economic consequences of the planned projects. According to his friend and colleague, the well-known physiologist V. Wigilsvorz, U. remained a rare worker until the end of his days, modest, fair, deeply respected by his colleagues, friends and relatives.
Соч.: Locusta and Grasshoppers. London, 1928; Insect Nutrition and Metabolism. London, 1929; Grasshoppers and Locusts: A. Handbook of General Acridology. London, 1966; Current and future problems of acridology // Entomol. obozr., 1969, vol. 48, issue 2.
B. P. Uvarov (1889-1970) and his contribution to science and practice // Entomol. obozr., 1970, vol. 49, issue 4; Haskell P. T. Sir Boris Uvarov. London, 1970; Wigglesworth V.B. Boris Petrovitch Uvarov / Biographiсal Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 1971, vol. 17.

And here is a very recent work:

Fedotova A. A. & Kouprianov A.V. Archival research reveals the true date of birth of the father of locust phase theory, Sir Boris Uvarov, FRS (English) / / Euroasian entomological journal. — 2016. — Vol. 15, no. 4. — P. 321-327.

http://www.eco.nsc.ru/EEJ_contents/15/201615405.pdf

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In honor of Ikonnikov N. F. was named a bat that he caught during an expedition in 1910 in the Far East:

Ikonnikov's moth Myotis ikonnikovi Ognev, 1912

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Smooth Nosed Bats
Noctuids

A small bat of the moth genus. It is named after the Russian nobleman and entomologist Nikolai Flegontovich Ikonnikov (1885-1970).
Description. Body length 37-43 mm, tail 30-42 mm, forearm 30-33 mm, wingspan 19-22 cm, low protrusion along the base of the spur. The top is black with golden-brown tips of hairs, the bottom is brown-gray. The edge of the leathery membrane is attached to the outer toe. There is no epiblem. The ears are large, the wings broad and blunt. The ears are covered with special inserts-tragi. The tragus is straight, long, narrow, and pointed.
Distribution. The species is distributed in Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, North Korea, Mongolia, and Russia. It lives in mountain forests. It builds nests in tree hollows and rock crevices. It winters in various underground shelters. It feeds on flying insects, flying low over the ground and forest rivers.

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I collect information about the entomologist Demokidov Konstantin Emmanuilovich. He worked as an entomologist at the Main Administration of Estates in St. Petersburg since 1906, all the time he worked on business trips to the Murgab state estate, in Belovezhskaya Pushcha, in the Caucasus, in the Crimea... He studied local pests and ways to control them. Carried out work on pest control. As early as 1905, he carried out such work in the Saratov province. And there's even a picture of him with the workers and a pest control machine.
He has dissertations, and scientific papers, and his books are still being sold, which he wrote at that time. He named one insect by his own name "Demokidov's horse" It is on the Internet. I'm interested in everything about him. I will be grateful to everyone for any information.

Here it turns out there is his correspondence with Semenov-Tia_Shansky, has anyone tried to order a correspondence with him??? After all, Andrey Petrovich conducted an active correspondence with Russian entomologists and his archive probably contains a lot of interesting things!!?

http://db.ranar.spb.ru/ru/work/id/28936/

I collect information about the entomologist Demokidov Konstantin Emmanuilovich. He worked as an entomologist at the Main Administration of Estates in St. Petersburg since 1906, all the time he worked on business trips to the Murgab state estate, in Belovezhskaya Pushcha, in the Caucasus, in the Crimea... He studied local pests and ways to control them. Carried out work on pest control. As early as 1905, he carried out such work in the Saratov province. And there's even a picture of him with the workers and a pest control machine.
He has dissertations, and scientific papers, and his books are still being sold, which he wrote at that time. He named one insect by his own name "Demokidov's horse" It is on the Internet. I'm interested in everything about him. I will be grateful to everyone for any information.

I think we are talking about the locust Chorthippus demokidovi-only this species was described in honor of K. E. not by himself,but by the German entomologist W. Ramm.
Some information about the species can be found here: http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/b...nNameID=1107251

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Here, maybe someone will be interested in my "excavations"


Ya. P. SHCHELKANOVTSEV-POPULARIZER OF GENETIC KNOWLEDGE IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY

The history of genetics in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union is quite fully revealed in numerous studies, but, nevertheless, some of its pages remain little known. These include the role of Professor Ya.P. Shchelkanovtsev in popularizing genetics at the beginning of the last century. In fact, he was not a geneticist, he specialized in zoology and entomology, but the breadth of scientific interests and erudition allowed him to stand in line with other outstanding scientists-propagandists of genetics: V. Shimkevich, E. Bogdanov, Y. Filipchenko, S. Zhegalov. We are talking about the original work of Ya. P. Shchelkanovtsev " Introduction to the evolutionary doctrine. Part 1. Variability of organisms. Heredity" (Shchelkanovtsev, 1919), by the will of fate published during the Civil War, and therefore remained practically unknown to either contemporaries or historians of science.
So, Yakov Petrovich Shchelkanovtsev (1870-1938), a native of Chernihiv, came from a merchant family, a major specialist in entomology, doctor of zoology. In 1895 he graduated from the Natural Department of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Moscow State University, and in 1903 he defended his dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Zoology (Shchelkanovtsev, 1903). In 1905-1908, Ya. P. Shchelkanovtsev served as curator of the Zoological Museum of Moscow State University, and since 1908 he has been elected an extraordinary Professor of the Department of Zoology at the University of Warsaw.


Cover of Ya. P. Shchelkanovtsev's book " Introduction to the Doctrine of Evolution "(1919)
In the summer of 1915, due to the current situation on the fronts of the First World War, the University of Warsaw was urgently evacuated to Rostov – on – Don (even the library was partially removed-1%-5562 books from the total fund of 607822 volumes). The university's teaching staff, including some very well-known scientists, such as the founder of virology, D. I. Ivanovsky, also moved to Rostov-on-Don. It was here, in Rostov-on-Don, in February 1919, that the publishing house of the Cooperative Partnership "Unity "(Lamosova, 2011), whose founder and co-chairman was I. A. Malinovsky (a historian, jurist, public figure, academician of the Higher School of Economics since 1925), also evacuated from Warsaw in 1915, was published "Introduction to the evolutionary doctrine "(printed in the printing house of the First Working Unit Partnership of Printing Business in Rostov-on-Don). The circulation of the publication is unknown, but it was most likely small. According to some sources, some of it (possibly isolated copies) came to Petrograd, as evidenced by the date and place of purchase indicated on the copy in our possession by Professor N. A. Tyumyakov, a well-known Saratov breeder: "Petrograd. January 1929". Most of the print run was lost during the Civil War, the book became a rarity and is currently missing from the catalogues of leading Russian book repositories, including the Russian State Library.



Publishing house of the Cooperative Partnership "Unity"

The uniqueness of the publication lies, first of all, in the very fact of its publication. Let us reconstruct a brief chronology of events: on December 26, 1918, Rostov was occupied by the Bolsheviks, on February 7, 1919, the White Army went on the offensive and, having captured the city, held it until February 10, and then left. It was during these days that the work of Ya. P. Shchelkanovtsev was published. The publication process was interrupted by fighting, which is reflected in the book itself – the title page is dated 1918, slightly different from the book's format (22x13. 5 cm) and was probably printed before the Bolshevik offensive. The cover shows the year 1919, and the author's "Preface" is dated February of the same year. The delay in publication until February 1919 indicates that the book was not published in the period from 26.12.1918 to 6.02.1919. Thus, it came out either during the capture of the city by the White Guards, or in a short period after their retreat.
It is rather strange that references to" Introduction to the Doctrine of Evolution " are absent in the bibliographies of genetic works (Filipchenko, 1929; Gaisinovich, 1934), and it is not cited in the works of the 20s and 30s. Of course, it was largely social upheavals that prevented the scientific community from properly evaluating the work of Y. P. Shchelkanovtsev. However, this is somewhat inconsistent with the fact that part of the book was reprinted. So, the author himself writes in the" Preface":: "The proposed essays on the variability of organisms and heredity represent, in a more popular presentation, two chapters of a course I am teaching for university students and students of Higher Women's Courses. They were written before the complete interruption of communication with Western Europe, and the first essay was published in Izvestiya Varshavskogo Universiteta, which was published in a very limited number" (Shchelkanovtsev, 1919). That is, the first edition of the chapter "Heredity of Organisms" was supposed to get into the main libraries of Russia, including university libraries, along with Izvestiya Varshavskogo Universiteta. Moreover, indirect evidence suggests that the second, Rostov, edition was also known to some geneticists and breeders. Thus, it is very likely that academician G. K. Meister got acquainted with it, since since 1929 the book by Y. P. Shchelkanovtsev was available in the library of his son – in-law, Professor N. A. Tyumyakov. Nevertheless, the appearance of the Introduction to Evolutionary Theory went unnoticed by most Russian scientists.
What is the remarkable work of Y. P. Shchelkanovtsev? In this short book, the author brilliantly summarizes the existing knowledge about heredity at that time, illustrating them with experiments on zoological and entomological objects. The range of issues under consideration is quite remarkable. The first chapter, "Variability of organisms," describes Darwin and Quetelet's views on variability; fluctuations, their causes and significance for selection; the statistical method and Quetelet's law, Galton's apparatus; the variability of Leptinotarsa over years; experimental evidence for the influence of external conditions; internal causes of variability; the use of the statistical method in the study of heredity and its limitations in solving biological problems. problems; Galton's law of return to the average type, its significance for racial hygiene and selection theory, the attitude of G. de Vries and Johansen to it; concepts of populations and pure lines, their selection; abrupt variability of domestic and wild animals, Korzhinsky's works; G. de Vries ' research on Oenothera lamarkiana; Tower's experiments; causes of mutations, attempts to converge mutations and fluctuations. The second chapter "Heredity" analyzes the essence of Mendelism (meaning of "bastards", mono -, di-trihybrids), examines the inheritance of acquired traits, and pays special attention to human heredity (inheritance of non-pathological variations, diseases and deformities). Thus, a very wide range of issues is covered, ranging from statistical methods for studying variability to eugenics and racial politics.
To illustrate these or other theories, Y. P. Shchelkanovtsev used, first of all, experiments on zoological objects. For example, he described in detail the experiments of Towerand on the variability of the Colorado potato beetle, Jennings-on the variability of paramecia, Baron Rosen-on the variability of the mollusk Cardium, Lang-on the crossing of the white and striped races of the garden snail Helix hortensis, hybridization of rabbits, Toyama - on the crossing of the silkworm, experiments of Standfuss, Fischer, Schroeder-on color change, etc. Kammerer's later scandalous experiments on the inheritance of acquired traits in amphibians are considered.
In fact, Y. P. Shchelkanovtsev in his review covered all the most significant scientific facts on the study of variability and heredity at that time, making maximum use of both foreign literature and the few Russian translations of Bauer, Goldschmidt, Pennet, and Corens. At the same time, the book by Y. P. Shchelkanovtsev is distinguished by its conciseness and clarity of presentation, which made it indispensable as a university-level textbook.

List of used literary sources
Gaisinovich A. General genetic literature / In the book Sinnot E, Denn L. Course of genetics / A. Gaisinovich.: Biomedgiz, 1934, pp. 389-396.
Lamosova N. V. Stanovlenie izdatel'skogo dela na Donu i Kubani v 1920-kh – nachale 1930th gody: avtoref. dis. for the academic degree of Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences: spec. 05.25.03. "Library Science, Bibliography and book science" / N. V. Lamosova. - Krasnodar, 2011. - 21 p
. Filipchenko Yu. A. Genetics. 132 figures in the text. Second revised edition / Yu. A. Filipchenko. - M.-L.: State Publishing House, 1929. - 380 p., il.
Shchelkanovtsev Ya. P. Introduction to the evolutionary doctrine. Part 1. 1) Variability of organisms. 2) Heredity / Ya. P. Shchelkanovtsev. Rostov-on-Don: Publishing House of the Cooperative T-va "UNITY", type. First Unit Partnership of Printing Business, 1919. - tit. l., 80 p., 1 l. typos, ill.
Shchelkanovtsev Ya. P. Materials on the anatomy of pseudoscorpiones (Pseudoscorpiones). From The Scientific Notes Of The Imperial Moscow University. Department of Natural History, issue XVIII / Ya. P. Shchelkanovtsev. - Moscow: Universitetskaya tipografiya, 1903. - 203 p., 3 l. table.


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