Collie, Andrei Robertovich

Born in 1874 ^[2] . By origin - a Scotsman, the son of a professor at the Department of Physics and Physical Geography of Kazan University, R. A. Collie. Mother, Maria Vladimirovna, is an outstanding pianist and singer, around whom a circle of Moscow intelligentsia united.

He graduated from the Moscow Kreiman Grammar School, then - the Physics and Mathematics Department of Moscow University .

Upon graduation, at the suggestion of P. N. Lebedev , he studied the dispersion of electromagnetic waves in pure substances and their mixtures in the laboratory of N. A. Umov .

Then he was sent abroad: in the laboratory of the Berlin Physical Institute, he worked for the famous German scientist Drude , in Göttingen - in the laboratory of Nernst . Returning to Russia, he took the place of privat-docent in Odessa. He defended his doctoral dissertation "The study of dispersion in the electrical spectrum of liquids" ^[3] . He was elected professor of physics at the University of Warsaw , where he worked until 1915 and organized a physics laboratory.

In 1915 he was evacuated to Rostov-on-Don along with other teachers at the University of Warsaw. Under the guidance of Professor A. R. Collie, physical laboratories of the future Rostov University were created in Rostov, where serious scientific work had already begun in 1916. ^[four]

According to his methodology, students worked in the field of electric spectrum research - N. N. Obolensky, K. I. Ivanov, E. V. Bogoslovsky .

Member of the constitutional democratic party , was elected a member of the Rostov city party committee, and in 1917 he went to the City Duma on the list of cadets.

He was killed by the Red Guards in February 1918 in Rostov-on-Don, after the occupation of the city by the Red Army.

In the evening of February 9, the Volunteer Army left Rostov, and in the morning the next day, the scoundrel — the minister of the physical office, who was not at one time encouraged by Professor Collie in his “demands,” already led a drunken gang of soldiers on Pushkinskaya Street, where A.R. with his family (wife and two children) for reprisal with the "white professor" - the "royal officer". A vowel of the Duma R., who accidentally walked along the street, saw how the soldiers of A.R. from the door to the street - "to the court", he saw the frantic wife of A.R., who had grappled with the soldiers, and ran to the Duma for help, for protection, to prevent an evil deed ... when several vowels in the Duma came running - Andrei Robertovich was brutally murdered on the street and above him - his wife beating frantically ...

• P.P. Lazarev A.R. Collie. Obituary. Physics-Uspekhi. February 1918.
• V.F. Seeler Andrei Robertovich Collie // In Memory of the Dead. Paris. 1929.
• N. A. Reshetova. The life and death of Professor Collie (neopr.) . Donskoy Temporary. Date of treatment December 26, 2011. Archived on April 18, 2012.