Some Stories Told by N.W. Timofeeff-Ressovsky

Abstract

In 1974–1978 philologists documentary writers V.D. Duvakin and his student M.V. Radzishevskaya frequented Nikolay Wladimirovich Timofeeff-Ressovsky in Obninsk. Their tape-recorded reports of stories told them by Timofeeff-Ressovsky are stored in the Oral History Department of MSU Scientific Library. They were also published in the book “N.W. Timofeeff-Ressovsky. The Stories Told by Himself…” (Publishing House “Soglasie”, 2000). This book is remarkable not only of the collection of historical and bibliographic data but also by the fact that it presents the famous ironic style of Timofeeff-Ressovsky—the narrator. May be, because of complexities in translation his oral memoirs have never been translated into English before. We (The Moscow State University Lomonosov Scientific Library; Compilers: Victoria L. Korogodina (JINR) and Natalia I. Dubrovina (MSU Scientific Library); Translators (JINR): Irina V. Kronshtadtova and Svetlana V. Chubakova) publish here first three stories told by Timofeeff-Ressovsky: about the “Chetverikov Circle” of young researchers of Drosophila (“Drossoor”) and a visit of Hermann Muller to the USSR; about the “Green Pamphlet”; about the “Bohr Circle’” investigations in the distribution of women’s beauty around European countries.

Timofeeff-Ressovsky NV (2000) The Stories Told by Himself with Letters, Photos and Documents. Dubrovina NI (comp. & ed). Soglasie Publ, Moscow (Russian).

Some stories told by N.W. Timofeeff-Ressovsky: About Muller and his life in Moscow; “Green Pamphlet”; The isolines of the female beauty (submitted by Moscow State University Lomonosov Scientific Library).