Nikolsky A.M. Summer trip of a naturalist.

Nikolsky A.M. Summer trip of a naturalist.
St. Petersburg. Printing house E. Evdokimov, 1900. - VII, 240 p., 24 l. ill. beyond pagination: ill. in the text. Hardcover combined owner's cover without saving the publisher's cover, the usual format (17 x 23 cm). The binding is worn, the block has splits, the attachment of notebooks is weakened; on the pages there are spots, foxings, creases, tears and minor losses along the perimeter, there are traces of amateur restoration with paper with overlapping text and images.

Richly illustrated valuable work on ethnography, ethnology, biology and zoology.

The publication describes Nikolsky's travels to Turkestan, the Arctic Ocean, Northern Persia, and the island of Sakhalin.

Bogomolov No. 3120.

[Alexander Mikhailovich Nikolsky (1858, Astrakhan — 1942, Kharkiv) — Russian and Soviet zoologist, herpetologist, Honored Professor, Academician of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, popularizer of science.

While still a student, in 1880 he participated in the Murmansk expedition to study whaling in the Arctic Ocean, after returning from which, on the recommendation of M. N. Bogdanov, he was elected to the post of curator of the zoological cabinet of the University.

In 1881, together with I. S. Polyakov, he was on an expedition organized by the Geographical Society to the island of Sakhalin. In 1882, he was part of an expedition organized by the Ministry of the Yard for the revision of the Altai Mountain District, in which it was decided to include several naturalists; A. M. Nikolsky went as a zoologist, N. A. Sokolov as a geologist, and A. N. Krasnov as a botanist. 

In 1884, Nikolsky was on an expedition to Lake Balkhash and the Semirechensk region, which gave him the material for his master's thesis "On the fauna of vertebrates of the bottom of the Balkhash basin", which he defended at St. Petersburg University in 1887. But before that, he made two more trips: in 1885, at his own expense, he, together with N. A. Zarudny, was in Persia; in 1886, on behalf of the Ministry of State Property, he was engaged in fishing research on the Aral Sea and the Syr-Darya and Amu-Darya rivers. ]