Nikolai Kuznetsov (entomologist)
Russian Empire and Soviet entomologist, paleoentomologist and physiologist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Nikolai Yakovlevich Kuznetsov (Russian: Николай Яковлевич Кузнецов; May 23, 1873 in Saint Petersburg – April 8, 1948 in Leningrad)[1] was a Russian and Soviet entomologist, paleoentomologist and physiologist, since 1910 was member of the Russian Entomological Society.[2] Professor Kuznetsov was very important as a pioneer in the fields of insect physiology, Lepidoptera fauna of the Arctic (Siberia) and knowledge of fossils of Lepidoptera.
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He influenced the very famous lepidopterist and writer Vladimir Nabokov: "At the age of eight he [Nabokov] began reading serious books on entomology from the family library and at nine he already attempted to make his first scientific discovery, writing about it to the leading Russian lepidopterist, Nikolay Kuznetsov. Kuznetsov's reply disappointed the young naturalist: it turned out that the insect in question had already been described."[3] Years later Nabokov called the work "Fauna of Russia and Adjacent Countries – Lepidoptera" his masterpiece, "unsurpassed by any other general survey of the morphology of Lepidoptera".[4][5]