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Aleksei Nikolaevich Krylov: Military Man in Academia

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Russian Academicians and the Revolution

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The archives of the Russian Academy of Sciences contain a great deal of material on Academician Aleksei Nikolaevich Krylov — a prominent Russian shipbuilding engineer and mathematician. From numerous documents that flowed from his formidable pen a picture emerges of a person who constantly shocked his fellow academicians with his straightforward and often rude manner of expressing ideas, objections and demands. Krylov’s texts are marked by a colorful mixture of bad language, which may have been appropriate in the Russian navy but was rather out of place in the Academy of Sciences; quotations from Russian literature, which Krylov loved and knew very well, French expressions and Latin proverbs.

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  1. Unless otherwise specified, the biographical data about Krylov are taken from his memoirs: A.N. Krylov, Moi vospominaniya (Moscow and Leningrad: Izdatel’stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR, 1945).

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  2. See also Vladimir Lipilin, Krylov (Moscow: Molodaya gvardiya, 1983) pp. 220–1

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  3. S. Ya. Shtraikh, Al. Nik. Krylov (Moscow and Leningrad: Nauka, 1950).

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  4. F.F. Perchenok, ‘Akademiya Nauk na ′velikom perelome,’ in N.G. Okhotin and A. A. Roginsky (ed.), Zven’ya. Istoricheskii almanakh, vol. no. 1 (Moscow: Progress, Feniks, Atheneum, 1991) pp. 226–30.

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  5. Sheila Fitzpatrick, Cultural Revolution in Russia, 1928–1931 (Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1978).

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  1. University of Salford, England

    Vera Tolz (Lecturer in Russian History and Politics)

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Tolz, V. (1997). Aleksei Nikolaevich Krylov: Military Man in Academia. In: Russian Academicians and the Revolution. Studies in Russian and East European History and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25840-6_7

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