To keep the history from being impersonal: to the 155th anniversary of the birth of Professor A. P. Gerasimov

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The article is devoted to the 155th anniversary of the birth of Professor A. P. Gerasimov (1869–1942), Secretary (1914–1935), Honorary Member (1940) and Chairman (1936–1942) of the All-Russian Mineralogical Society, who died in evacuation in Sverdlovsk. His letters, found in the archive of Professor D. P. Grigoriev, kept in the Russian Mineralogical Society, are published: to A.N. Krishtafovich from Petrograd to Vladivostok (05.05.1921), to D.P. Grigoriev from Essentuki to Sverdlovsk (26.03.1942), to relatives from Essentuki (07.06.1942), as well as an autobiography (01.06.1942), and obituaries from the newspaper «The Ural Worker» (12.11.1942). The letters show the living and working conditions of the Geological Committee in Petrograd during the Civil War and of the Leningrad Mining Institute in evacuation during the World War II. The aim of the article is to restore the history of domestic science as fully as possible. The article is aimed at historians of science, as well as teachers, graduate students and students of geological faculties of universities.

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Yu. L. Voytekhovsky

A. I. Herzen Russian State Pedagogical University; Russian Mineralogical Society

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Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg, Moika River Embankment, 48; Saint Petersburg

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2. Fig. 1. A.P. Gerasimov

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3. Fig. 2. First page of autobiography

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4. Fig. 3. F.N. Chernyshev.

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5. Fig. 4. А.N. Krishtofovich. On the back in the hand of D.P. Grigoriev: «received from V. M. Krishtofovich 15.IV.1964». On the ex-libris: «do not touch my circles» (Archimedes). Ginkgo leaves symbolise antiquity and rarity. There are several known fossils and only one modern species of this relict tree, growing in China and Japan.

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6. Fig. 5. K.N. Paffenholtz.

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7. Fig. 6. V.P. Rengarten.

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8. Fig. 7. Signed by D.P. Grigoriev: «P.A. Grushe. Received from V.A. Kuznetsova 11.XI.1963» (Head of the Mineralogy Department at the Mining Museum).

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9. Fig. 8. Signed by D.P. Grigoriev. Left: «Professor D.V. Nikitin, Head of the Petrography Department at Leningrad Mining Institute. Received from V.A. Kuznetsova 11.XI.1963». On the right: «passing the examination for practice. 1938–1939».

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