The Beginning of Independent Life. To the 150th Anniversary of the Birth of Academician A.A.Borissiak

Аннотация

We present some fragments from the forthcoming book “Academician A.A.Borissiak and his family in Saint-Petersburg, Petrograd, and Leningrad”, written by I.V.Bodylevskaya and based on the correspondence of family members. This is a story about the beginning of the scientific activity of the academician, about his family and daily rounds of a scientist at the end of the XIX century.