Register of Names

The diary names people by first name, diminutive, or initial — Kolmogorov knew who he meant. This register, drawn from the Index of Names in the 2003 Fizmatlit edition, gives each of the 282 of them a settled English form, dates where known, the household names the diary uses, and a line on who they were. Household names are cross-referenced, so Pusya and Pavel Sergeevich Alexandrov lead to the same entry.

On the poems of 6 September 1943: the verse of Yu. M. Smirnov (1921–2007) is reproduced as Kolmogorov copied and scanned it, and remains its author’s. It is included here as part of a non-commercial scholarly edition; permission from the estate has not been sought, and would be before any wider distribution.

Georgy Maximovich Adelson-Velsky (b. 1922)

Mathematician, graduated from Moscow University in 1945; doctor of physical and mathematical sciences.

Aleksandr Danilovich Alexandrov (1912-1999)

Geometer, corresponding member (1946) then academician (1964) of the USSR Academy of Sciences and rector of Leningrad University (1952-1964), working on geometry, the foundations of relativity and the philosophy of natural science.

Anatoly Petrovich Alexandrov (1903-1994)

Physicist, academician (1953) and President of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1975-1992).

Pavel Sergeevich Alexandrov (1896-1982) — Pusya [Пуся]

Mathematician, founder of the Soviet topological school and academician (1953); one of Kolmogorov’s first teachers and his closest friend for over half a century, sharing the Komarovka house with him from 1935.

Mikhail Sergeevich Alexandrov (1885-1965)

Well-known Moscow surgeon, brother of P. S. Alexandrov.

Sergei Sergeevich Alexandrov

Brother of P. S. Alexandrov.

Varvara Sergeevna Alexandrova (1890-1984) — V.S. [В.С.]

Sister of P. S. Alexandrov, a physician by training, who lived with him to the end of his days.

Abram Isaakovich Alikhanov (1904-1970)

Physicist and academician (1943), founder and director of the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, working on nuclear physics and cosmic rays.

Viktor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian (1908-1996)

Astrophysicist, a founder of Soviet theoretical astrophysics, academician (1953), President of the Armenian Academy of Sciences (1947-1987) and founding director of the Byurakan Observatory.

Maria Fedorovna Andreeva (1868-1953)

Russian actress (real surname Yurkovskaya) who directed the Moscow House of Scientists from 1931 to 1948.

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Andronov (1901-1952)

Physicist and academician (1946), founder of the Soviet school of non-linear oscillation theory.

Ivan Ivanovich Artobolevsky (1905-1977)

Specialist in machines and mechanisms, academician (1946), and chairman of the Znanie society.

Ezras Asratovich Asratian (1903-1981)

Physiologist of the central nervous system and higher nervous activity, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1939).

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Baikov (1870-1946)

Metallurgist and academician (1932) who founded the Leningrad metallurgical school and served as vice-president of the Academy of Sciences during the war.

Evgenii Alekseevich Barbashin (1918-1969)

Mathematician, professor at the Urals Polytechnic Institute from 1943 and academician of the Belorussian Academy of Sciences (1966).

Nina Karlovna Bari (1901-1961)

Mathematician and professor at Moscow University from 1934, a pupil of N. N. Luzin and member of the Moscow, French and Polish mathematical societies.

Anisim Fedorovich Bermant (1904-1959)

Mathematician and professor (1933) who in these years ran the editorial office of the journal Matematicheskii sbornik.

Sergei Natanovich Bernstein (1880-1968)

Mathematician, academician of the USSR (1929) and Ukrainian (1925) academies and foreign member of the Paris Academy, working on differential equations, function theory and probability.

Abram Samoilovich Besicovitch (1891-1970)

Mathematician who emigrated in 1924 and became professor at Cambridge and a Fellow of the Royal Society, working on function theory, probability and the calculus of variations.

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Bobrov (1912-1988)

Mathematician, docent at Dnepropetrovsk University.

Nikolai Nikolaevich Bogolyubov (1909-1992)

Mathematician and theoretical physicist, academician (1953), director of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research at Dubna from 1965 and of the Steklov Institute (1983-1988), founder of a school of non-linear mechanics.

Harald Bohr (1891-1951)

Danish mathematician and director of the Mathematical Institute in Copenhagen, brother of the physicist Niels Bohr, known for the theory of almost periodic functions.

Iurii Dmitrievich Boulanger (1911-1997)

Geologist and geophysicist, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1966), working on experimental gravimetry and crustal deformation.

Anatoly Andreevich Brandukov (1856-1930)

Celebrated cellist and teacher who studied music theory under Tchaikovsky and gave cello lessons to M. S. Alexandrov.

Nikolai Grigor’evich Bruevich (1896-1987)

Mechanical engineer, academician (1942) and academician-secretary of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1942-1949), a creator of the theory of precision and reliability of machines.

Georg Cantor (1845-1918)

German mathematician, professor at Halle from 1869 and creator of set theory.

Eduard Čech (1893-1960)

Czech mathematician, professor at Brno and member of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences.

Sergei Alekseevich Chaplygin (1869-1942)

Mechanician and academician (1929), one of the founders of aerodynamics and from 1921 scientific director of TsAGI.

Nikolai Grigor’evich Chebotaryov (1894-1947)

Mathematician and corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1929), professor at Kazan University, working on algebra, number theory and function theory.

Pavel Alekseevich Cherenkov (1904-1990)

Physicist and academician (1970), Nobel laureate in physics (1958), with fundamental work on cosmic rays and accelerators.

Nikolai Gur’evich Chetaev (1902-1959)

Mathematician and mechanician, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1943), professor at Kazan (1930) and Moscow (1940) universities, working on the stability of motion and analytical dynamics.

Georgii Andreevich Stöcker and Ekaterina Dmitrievna Stöcker (née Chetverikova)

Former owners of the house at Komarovka.

Nikolai Fedorovich Chetverukhin (1891-1974)

Mathematician and professor (1931), full member of the USSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences (1955) and in these years professor at the Moscow Aviation Institute.

Vera Aleksandrovna Davydova (1906-1993)

Celebrated mezzo-soprano and teacher, People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1951) and professor at the Tbilisi Conservatoire (1964).

Boris Nikolaevich Delone (1890-1980)

Mathematician and corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1929) who headed the Moscow University chair of higher geometry (1935-1943); a master of sport in mountaineering (1937) working on geometry, number theory and mathematical crystallography.

Nikolai Aleksandrovich Dmitriev (1924-2000)

Mathematician and physicist, a pupil of Kolmogorov who took part in work connected with the Atomic Project.

Mikhail Vasil’evich Dobroklonskii (1886-1964)

Art historian, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1943).

Nina L’vovna Dorliak (1908-1998)

Celebrated soprano and teacher, Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1948) and wife of Sviatoslav Richter.

Matil’da Isidorovna Dubenskaia

Close friend of Vera Yakovlevna Kolmogorova and foster mother of P. S. Kuznetsov; lived in Odessa.

Nikolai Petrovich Dubinin (1907-1998)

Geneticist and academician (1966), director of the Institute of General Genetics from 1966, who with A. S. Serebrovsky discovered the divisibility of the gene.

Iakov Semenovich Dubnov (1887-1957)

Mathematician, professor at Moscow University (1928-1952).

Eugene Borisovich Dynkin (b. 1924)

Mathematician and pupil of Kolmogorov, professor in the Moscow University chair of probability theory until 1981 and member of the US National Academy of Sciences, working on probability and stochastic processes; later resident in the United States.

Boris L’vovich Dzerdzeevskii

Synoptic meteorologist, doctor of physical and mathematical sciences and head of the climatology department at the Institute of Geography; a member of the 1937 drifting-ice expedition to the North Pole.

Johann Peter Eckermann (1792-1854)

Friend and private secretary of Goethe and author of the celebrated Conversations with Goethe; with Riemer he prepared the 1836 edition of Goethe’s works.

Vadim Arsen’evich Efremovich (1903-1989)

Mathematician and professor, a pupil of P. S. Alexandrov, who worked at the Shuya and Ivanovo pedagogical institutes (1949-1957) and the Steklov Institute (1962-1970).

Andrei Dmitrievich Egorov

Brother of A. D. Kolmogorova (née Egorova).

Boris Dmitrievich Egorov (1906-1992) — Borya [Боря]

Optical physicist, brother of A. D. Kolmogorova (née Egorova).

Iurii Andreevich Egorov — Yura [Юра]

Son of A. D. Egorov and nephew of A. D. Kolmogorova (née Egorova).

Margarita Mikhailovna Egorova

Mother of A. D. Kolmogorova (née Egorova).

Anna Dmitrievna Kolmogorova (née Egorova) (1903-1988) — Anya [Аня]

Wife of Andrei Nikolaevich Kolmogorov.

Mikhail Konstantinovich Fage (b. 1915)

Mathematician and pupil of Kolmogorov, professor (1959), who graduated from Moscow University in 1938 and defended his dissertation at Kazan in 1942.

Evgenii Konstantinovich Fedorov (1910-1981)

Geophysicist and academician (1960), Chief Scientific Secretary of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1960-1962).

Vera Fedorovna Fedorova

Co-founder of E. A. Repman’s private gymnasium.

Samuil Evgen’evich Feinberg (1890-1962)

Celebrated pianist and composer, professor at the Moscow Conservatoire.

William Feller (1906-1970)

American mathematician, born in Yugoslavia, who worked in Germany and Sweden before moving to the United States in 1939; professor at Princeton from 1950, known for probability theory and its applications.

Vasilii Grigor’evich Fesenkov (1889-1972)

Astronomer and academician (1935), one of the founders of astrophysics, with fundamental work on the physics of stars, nebulae, planets, the Sun and the Moon.

Georgii Nikolaevich Flerov (1913-1990)

Physicist and academician (1968) who discovered the spontaneous fission of heavy nuclei.

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock (1898-1974)

Theoretical physicist and academician (1939), founder of the Leningrad school, with fundamental work on quantum mechanics, electrodynamics and general relativity.

Sergei Vasil’evich Fomin (1917-1975)

Mathematician and pupil of Kolmogorov and Alexandrov, professor at Moscow University and head of the mathematical-methods-in-biology laboratory at the Institute of Biophysics from 1960; a war veteran who defended his candidate’s dissertation in evacuation at Kazan.

Georg Frobenius (1849-1917)

Mathematician, professor at Berlin University and member of the Berlin Academy.

Aleksandr Naumovich Frumkin (1895-1976)

Electrochemist and academician (1932), founder of the Soviet school of electrochemistry, working on the kinetics and mechanisms of electrochemical processes.

Samarii Aleksandrovich Gal’pern (1904-1977)

Mathematician who studied at Moscow University alongside Kolmogorov and worked in its Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics from 1932; professor (1962).

Boris Grigor’evich Galerkin (1871-1945)

Engineer and academician (1935) in structural mechanics and elasticity theory, lieutenant-general of engineers and a creator of the theory of plate bending.

Il’ia Savvich Galkin (1898-1990)

Historian and professor, pro-rector of Moscow University in these years.

Aleksandr Vasil’evich Gauk (1893-1963)

Conductor and composer, professor at the Moscow Conservatoire and chief conductor of the USSR State Symphony Orchestra (1936-1941).

Aleksandr Feliksovich Gavrilov (1887-1961)

Mathematician, professor at Petersburg University and the Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute.

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Gavrilov (1903-1979)

Specialist in automatic control, professor and corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1964).

Nikolai Ivanovich Gavrilov (b. 1917)

Mathematician, graduated from Moscow University in 1946; doctor of physical and mathematical sciences (1956).

Israel Moiseevich Gelfand (b. 1913)

Mathematician and academician (1984), a pupil of Kolmogorov, working on functional analysis, mathematical physics and applied mathematics.

Aleksandr Osipovich Gelfond (1906-1968)

Mathematician and corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1939) who headed the Moscow University chair of number theory.

Tat’iana Borisovna Gendlina

Official responsible for food provisioning of academicians and corresponding members at the House of Scientists during the war.

Elizaveta Grigor’evna Gilels (b. 1924)

Celebrated violinist who took first prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 1937; sister of the pianist Emil Gilels.

Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko (1912-1995) — Borya [Боря]

Mathematician and academician of Ukraine (1948) who headed the Moscow University chair of probability theory (1965-1995); a pupil of Kolmogorov and Khinchin.

Dmitrii Borisovich Gnedenko (b. 1943) — Dima [Дима]

Mathematician, docent in the Moscow University chair of probability theory; son of B. V. Gnedenko.

Natal’ia Konstantinovna Gnedenko (1915-1987) — Natasha [Наташа]

Wife of B. V. Gnedenko.

Dmitrii Danilovich Golovin (1894-1966)

Baritone and soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre, Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1934).

Vladimir Vasil’evich Golubev (1884-1954)

Mathematician and mechanician, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1934) and major-general, first dean of the Moscow University Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics (1933-1935, 1944-1952).

Igor Emmanuilovich Grabar (1871-1960)

Painter and art historian, full member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1943) and of the Academy of Arts (1947).

Mstislav Igorevich Grabar

Mathematician, son of the painter I. E. Grabar and a friend of Kolmogorov from their youth.

Maria Izrailevna Grinberg (1908-1978)

Celebrated pianist and teacher, Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1961).

Nikolai Kallinikovich Gudzii (1887-1965)

Literary scholar and academician of the Ukrainian Academy (1945), at that time dean of the Moscow University Faculty of Philology.

Alfred Haar (1885-1933)

Hungarian mathematician and pupil of Hilbert, corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy, who taught at Göttingen and worked on functional analysis and measure theory.

Jacques Salomon Hadamard (1865-1963)

French mathematician at the Sorbonne and the École Polytechnique, foreign member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1922), known for work on differential equations, function theory and number theory.

Hermann Ludwig von Helmholtz (1821-1894)

German physicist, biophysicist, physiologist and psychologist, foreign member of the Petersburg Academy (1868), who first gave the law of conservation of energy a mathematical basis (1847).

David Hilbert (1862-1943)

German mathematician, one of the greatest scientists of the twentieth century, professor at Königsberg and Göttingen and corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1922).

Konstantin Nikolaevich Igumnov (1873-1948)

Outstanding pianist and teacher, People’s Artist of the USSR (1946) and professor at the Moscow Conservatoire.

Aleksei Antonovich Ilyushin (1911-1998)

Mechanician and corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1943) who headed the Moscow University chair of elasticity theory.

Sergei Vladimirovich Ilyushin (1894-1977)

Aircraft designer and academician (1968), creator of many bombers, ground-attack aircraft and airliners.

Abram Fedorovich Ioffe (1880-1960)

Physicist and academician (1920), founder of the Soviet school of physics, first director of the Physico-Technical Institute and vice-president of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1942-1945).

Aleksandr Iul’evich Ishlinskii (1913-2003)

Mechanician and academician (1960) who headed the Moscow University chair of applied mechanics, working on gyroscopes and autonomous navigation systems.

Dmitrii Dmitrievich Ivanenko (1904-1994)

Physicist and professor at Moscow University from 1943 who proposed the proton-neutron model of the atomic nucleus (1932) and worked on nuclear forces and synchrotron radiation.

Valentin Konstantinovich Ivanov (1908-1992)

Mathematician, professor (1956) and corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1970), working on function theory and ill-posed problems of mathematical physics.

Konstantin Konstantinovich Ivanov (1907-1984)

Conductor and People’s Artist of the USSR (1958), chief conductor of the All-Union Radio orchestra (1941-1946) and of the USSR State Symphony Orchestra (1946-1965).

Lev Nikolaevich Ivanov (1903-1957)

Historian and economist, academician (1943).

Oleg Sergeevich Ivashev-Musatov (b. 1927) — Oleg [Олег]

Mathematician, docent in the Moscow University chair of mathematical analysis and Kolmogorov’s co-author on school textbooks; son of A. D. Kolmogorova and S. Ivashev-Musatov, and one of the editors’ living witnesses for this index.

Sergei Nikolaevich Musatov (Ivashev-Musatov) (1900-1992) — Seryozha [Сережа]

Painter, father of O. S. Ivashev-Musatov and a gymnasium classmate of both A. N. and A. D. Kolmogorov, arrested in 1947 in the Daniil Andreev case and sentenced to 25 years in the camps; later rehabilitated.

Polina Aleksandrovna Ivasheva-Musatova (1874-1959) — P.A. [П.А.]

Paternal grandmother of O. S. Ivashev-Musatov who claimed descent from the Decembrist V. P. Ivashev.

William James (1842-1910)

American philosopher and psychologist, one of the founders of pragmatism.

Sergei Vasil’evich Kaftanov (1905-1978)

At that time chairman of the Committee for Higher Education and of the Committee for Scientific Defence Research.

Veniamin Fedorovich Kagan (1869-1953)

Mathematician, professor at Moscow University (1923) and head of its chair of differential geometry.

Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa (1894-1984)

Physicist and academician (1939), founder and director of the Institute for Physical Problems and creator of the Soviet school of low-temperature and strong-magnetic-field physics; Nobel laureate in physics (1978).

Ivan Matveevich Kataev (1875-1946)

Historian and professor at the Magnitogorsk Pedagogical Institute; brother of N. M. Kataev, Kolmogorov’s father.

Nikolai Matveevich Kataev

Kolmogorov’s father, son of a village priest from Vyatka province, an agronomist and populist exiled to Yaroslavl, where he worked as a zemstvo statistician; in a common-law marriage with Maria Yakovlevna Kolmogorova, he was killed in 1919 during Denikin’s offensive.

Liudmila Vsevolodovna Keldysh (1904-1976)

Mathematician and professor at Moscow University (1964), a pupil of Luzin who worked at the Steklov Institute from 1934; sister of M. V. Keldysh and wife of P. S. Novikov.

Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh (1911-1978)

Mathematician and mechanician, academician (1946) and President of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1961-1975), with fundamental work on complex function theory, functional analysis, aerohydrodynamics and oscillation theory.

Genrikh Frantsevich Khil’mi (1905-1976)

Mathematician and mechanician, graduated from Moscow University in 1932 and from 1943 at the Institute of Applied Geophysics.

Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin (1894-1959)

Mathematician and pupil of Luzin, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1939), who headed the Moscow University chair of mathematical analysis and, together with Kolmogorov, began the Soviet work on probability theory — sharing the Stalin Prize (1941) with him.

Sergei Alekseevich Khristianovich (1908-2000)

Mechanician and academician (1943) working on aero-, hydro- and gas dynamics.

Il’ia Afanas’evich Kibel (1904-1970)

Mathematician, hydrodynamicist and meteorologist, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1943), working on gas dynamics and hydrodynamic weather forecasting.

Isaak Konstantinovich Kikoin (1908-1984)

Physicist and academician (1953) who with Kolmogorov founded the specialised physics-and-mathematics boarding school at Moscow University and the journal Kvant; discoverer of the Kikoin-Noskov effect.

Zoia Mikhailovna Kishkina (b. 1917)

Mathematician, docent in the Moscow University chair of mathematical analysis and wife of A. G. Kurosh.

Sviatoslav Nikolaevich Knushevitsky (1907-1963)

Celebrated cellist and teacher, professor at the Moscow Conservatoire and member of the famous trio with Oborin and Oistrakh.

Pavel Pavlovich Kobeko (1897-1954)

Physicist, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1943).

Varvara Yakovlevna Kolmogorova (1869-1943) — Varya [Варя]

Kolmogorov’s aunt, a sister of his mother.

Vera Yakovlevna Kolmogorova (1863-1951) — Vera [Вера]

Kolmogorov’s aunt, who took his mother’s place and lived with him until her death.

Maria Yakovlevna Kolmogorova (1871-1903)

Kolmogorov’s mother, youngest of the six daughters of Yakov Stepanovich Kolmogorov, marshal of the Uglich nobility; a gymnasium graduate qualified to teach mathematics, she died giving birth to Kolmogorov.

Nadezhda Yakovlevna Kolmogorova (1865-1952) — Nadya [Надя]

Kolmogorov’s aunt, a sister of his mother and a physician — the only one of the Kolmogorov sisters to receive higher education, at the Women’s Medical Institute in Petersburg.

Vladimir Leont’evich Komarov (1869-1945)

Botanist, geographer and academician (1920), President of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1936-1945), known for plant systematics, floristics and geography.

Kirill Petrovich Kondrashin (1914-1981)

Conductor, People’s Artist of the USSR (1972).

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Konus (b. 1895)

Mathematician and economist specialising in econometrics; candidate of economic sciences (1945).

Pavel Dmitrievich Korin (1892-1967)

Painter, People’s Artist of the USSR and full member of the Academy of Arts (1942), who made the mosaic for the assembly hall of Moscow University on the Lenin Hills.

Oleksandr Yevdokymovych Korniichuk (1905-1972)

Ukrainian Soviet playwright and academician (1943).

Arkadii Aleksandrovich Kosmodemianskii (1908-1988)

Mechanician, professor at Moscow University and the Institute of the History of Science and Technology from 1939, corresponding member of the International Academy of the History of Science.

Semen Samsonovich Kovner (1896-1962)

Mathematician and professor (1931), graduated from Moscow University in 1921.

Vladimir Iakovlevich Kozlov (b. 1914)

Mathematician and professor, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1966).

Maria Andreevna Kozlova (b. 1909) — Marina, Masha [Марина, Маша]

Housekeeper at the Komarovka house from the time it was bought.

Marina Borisovna Kozolupova (b. 1918)

Celebrated violinist and teacher, Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1966) and professor at the Moscow Conservatoire; sister of the cellist Galina Kozolupova.

Torichan Pavlovich Kravets (1876-1955)

Physicist and corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1943), working on physical optics and the history of physics.

Mark Grigor’evich Krein (1907-1989)

Mathematician and professor, corresponding member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (1939).

Selim Grigor’evich Krein (1917-1999) — Selim [Селим]

Mathematician, professor at Voronezh University and brother of M. G. Krein.

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Kreines (1903-1977)

Mathematician, graduated from Moscow University in 1923 and professor in its chair of mathematical analysis from 1944.

Aleksei Nikolaevich Krylov (1863-1945)

Naval architect, mechanician and mathematician, chief inspector of shipbuilding and academician of the Russian Academy (1916).

Nikolai Mitrofanovich Krylov (1879-1955)

Mathematician and mechanician, academician of the USSR (1929) and Ukrainian (1922) academies, working on non-linear mechanics, interpolation and number theory.

Igor Vasil’evich Kurchatov (1902-1960)

Physicist and academician (1943), first organiser and head of Soviet atomic science and technology, under whom the first Soviet cyclotron, nuclear reactor and atomic bomb were built.

Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh (1908-1971)

Mathematician, professor and head of the Moscow University chair of higher algebra and long-serving board member of the Moscow Mathematical Society; a pupil of P. S. Alexandrov and O. Yu. Schmidt.

Rodion Osievich Kuzmin (1891-1949)

Mathematician and corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1946), professor at the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute (1922) and Leningrad University (1945), working on number theory and analysis.

Petr Savvich Kuznetsov (1899-1968) — Petya [Петя]

Philologist and professor at Moscow University who was raised from early childhood in the house of Kolmogorov’s grandfather and left memoirs of that period.

Lev Davidovich Landau (1908-1968)

Theoretical physicist and academician (1946), founder of a major school and Nobel laureate in physics (1962).

Grigorii Samuilovich Landsberg (1890-1957)

Physicist and academician (1946), founder of the Soviet school of spectroscopy and spectral analysis.

Mikhail Alekseevich Lavrentiev (1900-1980)

Mathematician and pupil of Luzin, academician (1946) and vice-president of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1957-1976), founder and chairman of its Siberian Branch (1957-1975), working on function theory, differential equations and continuum mechanics.

Viktor Nikitich Lazarev (1897-1976)

Historian and art historian, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1943) and professor at Moscow University from 1935.

Aleksandr Alekseevich Lebedev (1893-1969)

Physicist and academician (1943) with fundamental work on applied and technical optics and photoelectric phenomena.

Sergei Yakovlevich Lemeshev (1902-1977)

Lyric tenor, People’s Artist of the USSR (1950).

Georgii Glebovich Lemmlein (1901-1962)

Specialist in mineralogical crystallography, graduated from Leningrad University in 1929; doctor of geological and mineralogical sciences (1942).

Viktor Iosifovich Levin (b. 1909)

Mathematician and professor (1939).

Sophus Lie (1842-1899)

Norwegian mathematician, corresponding member of the Petersburg Academy and professor at Christiania and Leipzig, creator of the theory of continuous groups.

Mikhail Semenovich Lipetsker

Practising lawyer, nephew of L. S. Neiman, the sister of P. S. Urysohn.

Lev Gerasimovich Loitsianskii (1901-1991)

Mathematician and mechanician, professor (1926) and full member of the International Academy of Astronautics, working on viscous fluid dynamics, laminar boundary layers and turbulence.

Aleksandr L’vovich Lurie (1903-1970)

Mathematician and economist, doctor of economic sciences (1962) and professor (1963) who worked at the Central Economic-Mathematical Institute from 1963.

Aleksei Andreevich Lyapunov (1911-1973)

Mathematician and corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1964), a founder of Soviet cybernetics, at the Steklov Institute (1934-1962) and then the Institute of Mathematics of the Siberian Branch.

Lazar Aronovich Lyusternik (1899-1981)

Mathematician and corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1946) who headed the Moscow University chair of functional analysis (1935-1941) and in these years also worked at the Steklov Institute.

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Malinovskii (1909-1996)

Biologist who in these years attended the Kolmogorov-Khinchin seminar at Moscow University; a close comrade of D. D. Romashov.

Anatoly Ivanovich Maltsev (1909-1967)

Mathematician and academician (1958), a pupil of Kolmogorov and founder of a school at Novosibirsk, working on algebra and mathematical logic.

Leonid Isaakovich Mandelstam (1879-1944)

Physicist and academician (1929), a founder of the Soviet school of radiophysics, with seminal work on non-linear oscillations and light scattering.

Konstantin Konstantinovich Mardzhanishvili (1903-1981)

Mathematician and academician (1974) working on additive number theory and applied mathematics.

Aleksei Ivanovich Markushevich (1908-1979)

Mathematician and educationist, full member and vice-president of the USSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences (1950), working on function theory, the teaching of mathematics and the history of science.

Naum Natanovich Meiman (1912-2001)

Mathematician and professor (1939), a graduate of Kazan University working in these years at the Institute for Physical Problems.

Alexander Danilovich Menshikov (1673-1729)

Russian statesman and soldier, Peter the Great’s associate and a party to the founding of the first Russian Academy of Sciences, who met Leibniz and Newton on educational missions abroad.

Dmitrii Evgen’evich Menshov (1892-1988)

Mathematician and corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1953) who headed the Moscow University chair of function theory and functional analysis.

Miasoedov

Commandant of the military depot where Yu. M. Smirnov served during the war.

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Mikhailov (1888-1983)

Astronomer and academician (1964), director of the Pulkovo Observatory.

Mikhail Dmitrievich Millionshchikov (1913-1973)

Scientist and public figure, academician (1962) and vice-president of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1962-1973), a pupil of Kolmogorov working on turbulence, filtration, gas dynamics and nuclear power; chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR (1967-1973).

Andrei Sergeevich Monin (b. 1921)

Mathematician, meteorologist and oceanologist, a pupil of Kolmogorov; academician (2000) and long-serving director of the Institute of Oceanology (1965-1987), working on atmospheric physics and turbulence.

Nikoloz Ivanovich Muskhelishvili (1891-1976)

Mathematician and mechanician, academician (1939) and President of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (1941-1972), vice-president of the International Mathematical Union, working on elasticity, integral equations and analytic functions.

Anatolii Dmitrievich Myshkis (b. 1920)

Mathematician and professor (1947), a graduate of Moscow University (1941) and the Air Force Academy (1944) who worked in the Moscow University chair of differential equations from 1945 to 1947.

Mark Aronovich Naimark (1909-1978)

Mathematician and professor (1942), from 1956 at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

Lina Samoilovna Neiman (1885-1971) — L.S. [Л.С.]

Children’s writer and sister of the mathematician P. S. Urysohn, Alexandrov’s close friend who died tragically in 1924; Alexandrov and Kolmogorov lodged in her flat in Staropimenovsky Lane in the 1930s and early 1940s.

Leonid Mikhailovich Nemenov (1905-1980)

Physicist, academician of the Kazakh Academy of Sciences (1962).

Viktor Vladimirovich Nemytskii (1900-1967)

Mathematician and professor at Moscow University, a pupil of P. S. Alexandrov.

Otto E. Neugebauer (1899-1990)

Austrian mathematician and historian of science, founder (1931) and first editor of Zentralblatt für Mathematik — where P. S. Alexandrov ran the topology section — and from 1939 professor at Brown University.

John von Neumann (1903-1957)

American mathematician, professor at Berlin, Hamburg and Princeton and member of the US National Academy of Sciences, known for functional analysis, game theory and a major contribution to the first computers.

Sergei Mikhailovich Nikolskii (b. 1905)

Mathematician, academician (1972) and pupil of Kolmogorov who defended his doctorate in evacuation at Kazan, with fundamental work on functional analysis, approximation theory, quadrature formulae and boundary-value problems.

Petr Sergeevich Novikov (1901-1975)

Mathematician and academician (1960), a founder of the Soviet school of mathematical logic, working on set theory, algorithms and group theory.

Shalva Isaakovich Nutsubidze (1888-1969)

Georgian philosopher, historian, literary scholar and translator, academician of the Georgian Academy (1944), a founder of Tbilisi University and a Rustaveli scholar.

Nikolai Ivanovich Nuzhdin (1904-1972)

Biologist and geneticist, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1953).

Nikolai Dmitrievich Nyberg (1902-1990)

Physicist and optical scientist, a gymnasium friend of Kolmogorov and S. Musatov.

Sofia Nikolaevna Nyberg (1874-1964)

Orientalist who took her candidate’s degree in art history in 1944 and taught Latin at the Repman gymnasium; mother of N. D. Nyberg.

Lev Nikolaevich Oborin (1907-1974)

Celebrated pianist and teacher, People’s Artist of the USSR (1964), professor at the Moscow Conservatoire and member of the famous Oborin-Oistrakh-Knushevitsky trio.

Vladimir Afanas’evich Obruchev (1863-1956)

Geologist, geographer and academician (1929), explorer of Siberia and Central Asia.

Aleksandr Mikhailovich Obukhov (1918-1989)

Mathematician and geophysicist, a pupil of Kolmogorov; academician (1970) and director of the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, working on atmospheric physics, turbulence and mathematical statistics.

David Fedorovich Oistrakh (1908-1974)

Outstanding violinist, teacher and conductor, People’s Artist of the USSR (1953) and professor at the Moscow Conservatoire.

Iosif Abgarovich Orbeli (1887-1961)

Orientalist and academician (1935), first President of the Armenian Academy of Sciences and director of the Hermitage (1934-1951).

Sergei Vladimirovich Orlov (1880-1958)

Astronomer, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1943).

Boris Pavlovich Orlov (1892-1967)

Dean of the Faculty of Geography who served as acting rector of Moscow University during the war.

Nikolai Dmitrievich Papaleksi (1880-1947)

Radiophysicist and academician (1939), founder of a school of radiophysics.

Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936)

The great Russian physiologist, academician (1907) and Nobel laureate in medicine (1904).

Nikolai Nikolaevich Pavlovskii (1884-1937)

Hydrologist and academician (1932), known for research on groundwater hydraulics and filtration.

Dmitrii Ivanovich Perepelkin (1900-1954)

Mathematician and professor, graduated from Moscow University in 1923; doctor of physical and mathematical sciences (1944) and corresponding member of the RSFSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences.

Aleksei Arkad’evich Petrov (1920-1971)

Mathematician, Kolmogorov’s pupil and personal secretary in these years, later at the Steklov Institute (1962-1971) and the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute.

Faina Sergeevna Petrova (1896-1975)

Contralto and teacher, Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1937) and soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre.

Ivan Georgievich Petrovsky (1901-1973)

Mathematician and academician (1946) who headed the Moscow University chair of differential equations, was dean of Mechanics and Mathematics during the war and rector of the university (1951-1973), with fundamental work on differential equations, mathematical physics and algebraic geometry.

Nikolai Semenovich Piskunov (1908-1977)

Mathematician, doctor of physical and mathematical sciences (1939), in the 1930s in the Moscow University chair of differential equations and from 1939 professor at the Military Academy of Mechanisation and Motorisation.

Abram Iezekiilovich Plessner (1900-1961)

Russian mathematician, a graduate of Giessen who returned to the USSR in 1932, professor at Moscow University and staff member of the Steklov Institute (1934-1949).

Natal’ia Aleksandrovna Pleteneva

Ophthalmologist known to Kolmogorov.

Lev Semenovich Pontryagin (1908-1988)

Mathematician and academician (1958), a pupil of P. S. Alexandrov, working on topology, group theory and differential equations, and founder of the school of optimal control.

Aleksei Georgievich Postnikov (1921-1991)

Mathematician, doctor of physical and mathematical sciences (1956) and staff member of the Steklov Institute from 1950.

Aleksandr Savvich Predvoditelev (1891-1973)

Physicist and corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1939) working on molecular physics, hydrodynamics and combustion.

Sergei Ivanovich Preobrazhenskii

Well-known Moscow paediatrician of the day.

Viktoriia Semenovna Rabinovich (b. 1905)

Mathematician, graduated from Moscow University in 1930, with work on groups of unitary operators in Hilbert space.

Dmitrii Abramovich Raikov (b. 1905)

Mathematician and professor (1941), graduated from Moscow University in 1929.

Petr Konstantinovich Rashevsky (1907-1982)

Mathematician, professor and head of the Moscow University chair of differential geometry.

Evgeniia Al’bertovna Repman

Founder and director of the private Moscow gymnasium at which Kolmogorov was educated.

Friedrich Wilhelm Riemer (1774-1845)

German philologist and tutor in Goethe’s household who, with Eckermann, prepared the 1836 edition of Goethe’s works.

Aron Mikhailovich Rodov (b. 1912)

Mathematician, graduated from Belorussian (Minsk) University in 1938; candidate of physical and mathematical sciences (1945) and docent (1947).

Vsevolod Ivanovich Romanovsky (1879-1954)

Mathematician and professor (1935), academician of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences (1943) and founder of its Institute of Mathematics, which now bears his name; known for mathematical statistics.

Dmitrii Dmitrievich Romashov (1899-1963) — Dimetrusya [Диметруся]

Geneticist and pupil of N. K. Koltsov and S. S. Chetverikov who worked with N. P. Dubinin; a friend of Kolmogorov and S. N. Musatov.

Oleg Vasil’evich Sarmanov (1916-1977)

Mathematician, doctor of physical and mathematical sciences (1948) and professor (1955), at the Steklov Institute from 1955.

Tashmukhamed Alievich Sarymsakov (1915-1995)

Mathematician, academician (1943) and President of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences (1946-1952), rector of Central Asian University (1952-1958).

Fedor Petrovich Savarenskii (1881-1946)

Hydrogeologist and academician (1943) working on hydrogeology and engineering geology.

Otto Yulievich Schmidt (1891-1956) — O.Yu. [О.Ю.]

Mathematician, geophysicist, astronomer and science administrator, first head of the Northern Sea Route (1932-1939), Hero of the Soviet Union (1937) and vice-president of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1939-1942); head of the Moscow University chair of algebra and editor-in-chief of the Great Soviet Encyclopaedia (1924-1941).

Issai Schur (1875-1941)

German mathematician of Russian origin, professor at Berlin, member of the Berlin Academy and corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1929), who emigrated to Palestine in 1938.

Leonid Ivanovich Sedov (1907-1999)

Mechanician and academician (1953) working on hydro- and aeromechanics, continuum mechanics, gas dynamics and similarity theory.

Bentsion Izrailevich Segal (1901-1974)

Mathematician and professor who from 1935 worked at the Steklov Institute as academic secretary and deputy director.

Gleb Aleksandrovich Seliverstov (1905-1944) — Gleb [Глеб]

Mathematician and a close friend of Kolmogorov since their gymnasium years; killed at the front.

Nikolai Aleksandrovich Seliverstov (1902-1943)

Kolmogorov’s gymnasium comrade and brother of G. A. Seliverstov; killed at the front.

Aleksandr Nikolaevich and Nina Vasil’evna Seliverstov

Parents of Gleb and Nikolai Seliverstov, whom Kolmogorov visited while their sons were at the front.

Nikolai Nikolaevich Semenov (1896-1986)

Chemical physicist and academician (1932), vice-president of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1963-1971), founder of the school of chemical physics and Nobel laureate in chemistry (1956) for the theory of chain reactions.

Sergei Nikolaevich Sergeev-Tsenskii (1875-1958)

Writer, academician (1943).

Igor Rostislavovich Shafarevich (b. 1923)

Mathematician and academician (1972), member of the US National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society, working on algebra, algebraic number theory and algebraic geometry.

Georgii Evgen’evich Shilov (1917-1975)

Mathematician and war veteran, professor in the Moscow University chair of function theory and functional analysis (1952), who considered himself a pupil of Kolmogorov.

Sergei Petrovich Shirinsky (1903-1974)

Celebrated cellist, professor at the Moscow Conservatoire and People’s Artist of the RSFSR.

David Oskarovich Shklyarsky (1918-1942)

Mathematician who graduated from Moscow University in 1941 and was killed at the front, having published only two papers.

Vasilii Vladimirovich Shuleikin (1895-1979)

Physicist and geophysicist, academician (1946), organiser of and participant in a number of oceanographic expeditions, known for the physics of the sea.

Dmitrii Matveevich Sintsov (1867-1946)

Mathematician, academician of the Ukrainian Academy (1939) and professor at Kharkov University, where he directed the research institute of mathematics and mechanics and chaired the Kharkov Mathematical Society.

Vladimir Ivanovich Smirnov (1887-1974)

Mathematician and academician (1943), professor at Petersburg University, with fundamental work on the equations of mathematical physics, complex function theory and elasticity.

Nikolai Vasil’evich Smirnov (1900-1966)

Mathematician and corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1960), a veteran of the First World War, known for mathematical statistics and its applications.

Yuri Mikhailovich Smirnov (1921-2007) — Yura, Yurka, Strausenok (Little Ostrich) [Юра, Юрка, Страусенок]

Mathematician and pupil of P. S. Alexandrov, professor in the Moscow University chair of higher geometry and topology from 1951, and one of the editors’ living witnesses for this index.

Sergei L’vovich Sobolev (1908-1989)

Mathematician and academician (1939), head of the Moscow University chair of computational mathematics and director of the Steklov Institute during the evacuation; later director of the Institute of Mathematics of the Siberian Branch (from 1958), with fundamental work on elastic waves, mathematical physics and functional analysis.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Sofronitsky (1901-1961)

Outstanding pianist and teacher, professor at the Leningrad and Moscow conservatoires.

Aleksei Dmitrievich Speranskii (1888-1961)

Pathophysiologist, academician (1939).

Viktor Ivanovich Spitsyn (1902-1988)

Chemist and academician (1958) working on the chemistry of rare elements, complex compounds and radiochemistry.

Nikolai Ivanovich Spitsyn

A Komarovka neighbour who helped with repairs to the house.

Sergei Borisovich Stechkin (1920-1995)

Mathematician, graduated from Moscow University in 1944 and professor in its chair of mathematical analysis (1951).

Viacheslav Vasil’evich Stepanov (1889-1950)

Mathematician and pupil of D. F. Egorov, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1946) and the first — and, in these years, again the — head of the Moscow University chair of differential equations.

Lina Solomonovna Stern (1878-1968)

Physiologist, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1939) and full member of the Academy of Medical Sciences (1944).

Sergei Nikolaevich Stroganov

Professor and director of the laboratory at Lyublino who lectured at Moscow University while A. D. Kolmogorova was a student there.

Evgenii Mikhailovich Tareev (1895-1986)

Well-known Moscow physician and cardiologist, academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences (1948), in whose clinic V. S. Alexandrova worked and defended her dissertation after the war.

Aleksandr Nikolaevich Terenin (1896-1967)

Physical chemist and academician (1937), founder of a school of photochemistry.

Aleksandr Mitrofanovich Terpigorev (1873-1959)

Mining scientist and academician (1935) working on the exploitation, mechanisation and automation of mining.

Ludwig Tieck (1773-1853)

German writer and poet of the Romantic school.

Andrei Nikolaevich Tikhonov (1906-1993)

Mathematician and pupil of P. S. Alexandrov, academician (1966), founding dean of the Moscow University Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics (1970-1993) and director of the Institute of Applied Mathematics from 1978, with work on topology, functional analysis, differential equations and geophysics.

Aleksandr Filippovich Timan (b. 1920)

Mathematician, professor (1952) at Dnepropetrovsk University.

Georgii Pavlovich Tolstov (1911-1981)

Mathematician and professor (1949), graduated from Moscow University in 1937; a veteran of the Great Patriotic War.

Natal’ia Nikolaevna Treivas

Closest friend of A. D. Kolmogorova, with whom she worked at the Lyublino laboratory.

Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954)

Mathematician, logician and cyberneticist, Fellow of the Royal Society.

Dmitrii Alekseevich Vasil’kov (b. 1916)

Mathematician, graduated from Moscow University in 1938; Kolmogorov’s pupil and assistant on the Gunnery Handbook, later at the Steklov Institute.

Sergei Ivanovich Vavilov (1891-1951)

Physicist, academician (1932) and President of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1945-1951), founding director of the Physical Institute and first chairman of the Znanie society.

Mikhail Andreevich Velikanov (1879-1964)

Hydrologist and corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1939) who headed the Moscow University chair of channel-process physics and laid the theoretical foundations of channel-flow dynamics.

Elena Sergeevna Ventsel (1908-2002)

Mathematician and professor at the Zhukovsky Military Academy, known as a writer under the pseudonym I. Grekova.

Ivan Iakovlevich Verchenko

Mathematician and pupil of Kolmogorov.

Al’bert Al’bertovich Vil’de

Owner of the house in Kazan where the Alexandrovs and Kolmogorovs lived during the evacuation of 1941-1943.

Iosif Aleksandrovich Vil’ner (b. 1908)

Mathematician and professor, graduated from Moscow University in 1940.

Ivan Matveevich Vinogradov (1891-1983)

Number theorist, academician (1929) and long-serving director of the Steklov Institute (1932-1983, apart from its wartime evacuation to Kazan), and editor-in-chief of the Mathematical Encyclopaedia.

Grigorii Osipovich Vinokur (1896-1947)

Linguist and professor working on the historical stylistics of Russian, notably Pushkin’s vocabulary, whose collected works he edited.

Andrei Borisovich Vistelius (b. 1915)

Geologist and professor, member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (1991) and president of the International Association for Mathematical Geology.

Lev Izrailevich Volkovyskii (b. 1913)

Mathematician and professor (1944), graduated from Moscow University in 1935.

Bentsion Moiseevich Vul (1903-1985)

Physicist and academician (1972) working on the physics of dielectrics and semiconductors.

Andrei Ianuar’evich Vyshinsky (1883-1954)

Jurist and diplomat, academician (1939), Procurator General of the USSR (1933-1939) and Minister of Foreign Affairs until 1953.

Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (1903-1996)

Dutch mathematician and pupil of Emmy Noether who worked at Göttingen, Leipzig, Amsterdam and Zurich.

Abraham Wald (1902-1950)

American mathematician and statistician, professor at Columbia University from 1941.

Hermann Weyl (1885-1955)

German mathematician and physicist at Zurich, Göttingen and Princeton, professor at the Institute for Advanced Study (1933-1952), working on function theory, number theory and group theory in physics.

Norbert Wiener (1894-1964)

American scientist, a founder of cybernetics and professor at MIT, with work on analysis, probability, electrical networks and computing.

Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920)

German philosopher, physiologist and psychologist, a founder of experimental psychology.

Akiva Moiseevich Yaglom (b. 1921)

Mathematician and professor, a pupil of Kolmogorov.

Isaak Moiseevich Yaglom (1921-1988)

Mathematician and professor, Kolmogorov’s collaborator and co-author on questions of school education; twin brother of A. M. Yaglom.

Arnošt Kolman (Ernest Yaromirovich) (1892-1979)

Czech-born Soviet historian and philosopher of mathematics, in these years head of the science department of the Moscow Party Committee.

Maria Veniaminovna Yudina (1899-1970)

Celebrated pianist and teacher, professor at the Leningrad, Tbilisi and Moscow conservatoires.

Kornelii Liutsianovich Zelinskii (1896-1970)

Literary scholar and critic, one of the theorists of Constructivism.

Pavel Mikhailovich Zinov’ev

Psychiatrist known to Kolmogorov.

Also named, from the diary’s own footnotes#

Alla — Alla [Алла]

Second wife of S. Musatov (Ivashev-Musatov); no surname given.

Lev Dmitrievich Egorov — Lyova [Лева]

Brother of A. D. Kolmogorova (née Egorova); a third brother, alongside Andrei and Boris, whom the Index does not list.

Dima Egorov — Dima [Дима]

Son of B. D. Egorov by his first marriage.

Tat’iana Egorova — Tatyana [Татьяна]

Second wife of B. D. Egorov; no patronymic given.

Andrei Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (1903-1987) — Kh.G., Kholmogory Goose [Х.Г., Холмогорский Гусь]

The diarist.

Volodya Kuznetsov — Volodya, Petya’s Volodya [Володя, Петин Володя]

Son of P. S. Kuznetsov.

Natasha — Natasha [Наташа]

An acquaintance of S. Musatov whose portrait he was painting at the time; no surname given.

Nina Petrovna Nikolskaia — Nina Petrovna [Нина Петровна]

A. D. Kolmogorova’s old schoolteacher, who remained a friend and helped look after Oleg.

T. Nikolskaia — Tanya, Anya’s Tanya [Таня, Анина Таня]

Niece of N. P. Nikolskaya who looked after Oleg.

Elizaveta Rodionovna — Elizaveta Rodionovna [Елизавета Родионовна]

Mother of D. D. Romashov (Dimetrusya); no surname given.

Kseniia Aleksandrovna Romashova — Kseniya [Ксения]

Wife of D. D. Romashov (Dimetrusya) and, like him, a geneticist by training.

Shurka — Shurka [Шурка]

Husband of M. A. Kozlova, the Komarovka housekeeper; no surname given.

Tsezariia Ioakimovna Alexandrova (née Zdanovskaya) — Ts.I. [Ц.И.]

Mother of P. S. Alexandrov; the Alexandrov family dacha stood nearby at Klyazma.