Andrey Nikolayevich Beketov (russian: Андрей Николаевич Бекетов, 8 December 1825,

Saratov Governorate Saratov Governorate (russian: link=no, Саратовская губе́рния, ''Saratovskaya guberniya'', Government of Saratov), was an administrative division (a ''guberniya'') of the Russian Empire and the Russian Socialist Federative Sovie ...

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— 1 July 1902, Shakhmatovo,

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) was a prominent Russian Imperial

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, an Honourable member of the

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. Beketov, the Meritorious Professor of

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(which he was the head of in 1876-1883) was also a famous pedagogue and lecturer; among his best-known students were Andrey Krasnov,

Vladimir Vernadsky Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky (russian: link=no, Влади́мир Ива́нович Верна́дский) or Volodymyr Ivanovych Vernadsky ( uk, Володи́мир Іва́нович Верна́дський; – 6 January 1945) was ...

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and Ivan Shmalhausen. Beketov initiated the inception of the High Women's Courses which he was the head of until 1889 when they were reorganized, to be known later as the

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. He edited the Works of Free Economical Society (for which he was for several years the secretary and, since 1891 its vice-president) and, in 1861—1863, the Russian Geographical Society Herald (Вестник Русского географического oбщества). Together with Khristofor Gobi he co-founded ''Scripta Botanica'' (Ботанические записки), the first ever Russian magazine on botany. In 1892-1897 he edited the botany section of the

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. In the early 1860s Beketov authored the first comprehensive Russian textbook on botany, followed in 1896 by the textbook on the geography of plants. He translated into Russian several seminal works by

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and

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.Baranov, P.A. The Great Russian Botanist Andrey Nikolayevich Beketov // Баранов П. А. Выдающийся русский ботаник Андрей Николаевич Бекетов (к 50-летию со дня смерти). — М.: Московское общество испытателей природы, 1952. The renowned Silver Age poet

Alexander Blok Alexander Alexandrovich Blok ( rus, Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Бло́к, p=ɐlʲɪˈksandr ɐlʲɪˈksandrəvʲɪtɕ ˈblok, a=Ru-Alyeksandr Alyeksandrovich Blok.oga; 7 August 1921) was a Russian lyrical poet, writer, publ ...

was his grandson.

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