title: Mikhail Dmitrievich Ruzsky - a view from the XXI century
abstract: Mikhail Dmitrievich Ruzsky was born on 19 (7) of April, 1864 in Os-mino village of the Gdov Uezd, Petersburg Province of Russia. His father was collegiate councillor Dmitrii Dmitrievich Ruzsky, a civil servant of the independent principality department of Russian Empire, and his mother was Anastasiya Dmitrievna Ruzskaya. In 1884 he graduated from the classical gymnasium in Simbirsk with a silver medal award. In the senior class of the same gymnasium was Aleksandr Il'ich Ulyanov, the elder brothe
journal: Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta Biologiya