Tatyana Abramovna Krasnoselskaya ( Krasnoselskaya-Maksimova ; January 1, 1884 - February 17, 1950) - Soviet scientist- microbiologist , botanist and physiologist, expert in plant physiology , professor, translator of the book “ Origin of Species ” by C. Darwin [1] .
Biography
Banker daughter A graduate of the St. Petersburg Foundry Women's Gymnasium . She taught at the Higher Women's (Bestuzhevskiy) courses in St. Petersburg (1915-1918). She worked as a researcher at the Tiflis Botanical Garden . The first marriage was married to a botanist N. A. Maximov .
Professor (1934), Doctor of Biological Sciences (February 1935).
Arrested by the NKVD . In April 1935 she was expelled from Leningrad to Saratov , where she was appointed professor and head of the department of physiology and microbiology at the Saratov Agricultural Institute . In 1938 she married a plant physiologist, Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR A. A. Richter and received permission to settle in Moscow.
In 1938-1941 and 1947-1948 she headed the Department of Botany of the Moscow Pedagogical Institute . During the Great Patriotic War, worked in the evacuation , was awarded the medal "For Valiant Labor."
Ally Nikolay Vavilov . Vavilov’s letters to Krasnoselskaya-Maksimova about the publication of Darwin’s books in the USSR are known [1] .
Scientific Works
- Skazkin F. D., Lovchinovskaya E. I, Krasnoselskaya T. A. A practical work on plant physiology. - M .: Owls. science, 1948. - 378 p.
- Usovsky B.N., Geminova N.V., Krasnoselskaya T.A. English-Russian agricultural dictionary. - M .: Gostekhizdat, 1956. - 532 p.
Edited by T. A. Krasnoselskaya
- Color M. S. Chromatographic adsorption analysis. Selected works. Edited by A. A. Richter and T. A. Krasnoselskaya. M .: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1946.