Porfiri Nikititsch Krylow (botanist)

Porfiri Nikititsch Krylow

Porfiri Nikitich Krylov ( Russian Порфирий Никитич Крылов ; born August 1 ^{. Jul} / 13. August  1850 ^greg. In the village Sagaiskoje, Ujesd Minussinsk ; † 27. December 1931 in Tomsk ) was a Russian botanist and university teachers . Its botanical author abbreviation is "Krylov".

Life

Krylov was the son of Old Believer merchant and Perm Freeman Anikit Kondratjewitsch Krylov. The family settled in Perm, and Krylov entered the Perm high school at the age of twelve. After the 4th grade he was expelled from the grammar school because he had not appeared for the exam. The diploma attested him good and sufficient grades as well as excellent grades in Latin and mediocre in German . In 1868 he became an apprentice in one of Perm pharmacies . He was interested in chemistry and medicinal plants and soon also in botany .

In 1871 Krylov went to Kazan . In 1873 he began the two-year course at the University of Kazan for training as a provisional ( pharmacist's assistant ), which he completed with honors. He entered the Society of Naturalists at Kazan University and worked in the Botanical Cabinet. At the age of 23 he published his first scientific paper on a raspberry variety . He became an unscheduled laboratory assistant at the Chair of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Kazan and soon moved to the Botanical Garden as an academic gardener . During this time he traveled eleven times to the Perm governorate and the Ural ridge and published 15 papers on the flora there .

The curator of the West Siberian educational district and founder of the first Siberian university in Tomsk Vasily Markowitsch Florinsky invited Krylov to create the first botanical garden beyond the Urals for the University of Tomsk and a herbarium . In July 1885 Krylov came to Tomsk and brought 700 pots with orangery plants for the botanical garden. He immediately began to organize the herbarium in the form of a botanical museum. Construction of the main orangery has started and 14 greenhouses have been prepared. A herb garden with 200 species, an arboretum , a medicinal herb garden and an orchard were created. In front of the main building of the university, he created a park, the so-called university grove.

Krylov and Sergievskaya's grave monument in Tomsk University Grove

In 1888 Krylov founded the city park in Tomsk. There were also many green spaces, avenues and parks. From the 1890s he undertook to complete the Botanical Gardens several trips to the Altai , the lake teletskoye , in the Westsajan and from Western Siberia (u. A. Baraba steppe , Kulunda steppes ) and Kazakhstan . He founded tree nurseries in Tomsk, Sudschenka and Issilkul to protect the Trans-Siberian Railway from snow. In 1901 Krylov published the first volume of his main work on the flora of the Altai and the Tomsk Governorate . In 1914 the Imperial Academy of Sciences appointed him to the Botanical Museum of the Academy of Sciences in Petrograd . In 1915, the Perm entrepreneur Nikolai Wassiljewitsch Meschkow von Krylow and Pawel Wassiljewitsch Sjusew had reports drawn up for the construction of a people's garden in Perm, which was not realized as a result of the October Revolution and the Russian Civil War . In 1916 Krylov traveled to the Caucasus . After the February and October revolutions, he returned to Tomsk in 1917, where he was appointed professor at Tomsk University. Viktor Vladimirovich Rewerdatto , Lidija Palladijewna Sergijewskaja and Boris Konstantinowitsch Schischkin were among his students .

In 1918 Krylow began his second major work on the flora of Western Siberia, which was only completed by his students after his death. In 1925 he was elected Corresponding Member of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences and in 1929 Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR . On the basis of his work, the geobotanical maps of the Krasnoyarsk Territory were created in the 1930s . In 1931, Krylov was an adviser to an expedition to the Novosibirsk branch of the Institute of Chemistry and Pharmacy to study medicinal and essential plants in Transbaikalia . He undertook a trip to the Aga steppe, which was his last trip.

Honors, prizes

• Honorary doctorate from the University of Kazan (1909)
• Baer Prize of the Imperial Academy of Sciences (1914)

Web links

• Literature by and about Porfiri Nikititsch Krylow (botanist) in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Author entry and list of the described plant names for Porfiri Nikititsch Krylow (botanist) at the IPNI

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} University of Tomsk: Крылов Порфирий Никитич (accessed June 20, 2019).
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Томская областная универсальная научная библиотека имени А.С. Пушкина: КРЫЛОВ Порфирий Никитич (accessed June 20, 2019).
3. ↑ ^{a b} Russian Academy of Sciences: Крылов Порфирий Никитич (accessed June 20, 2019).
4. ↑ Perm University: Исторический очерк (accessed June 19, 2019).