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where his father was an ensign who came from impoverished noble ancestry. His mother died when he was eleven and his interest in nature was sparked by his home tutor A.N. Nikitin. He also had access to the library of N.I. Belkin. He graduated from the Tula Gymnasium in 1874 after an interruption due
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was a friend. He defended his doctoral thesis on the zoogeography of birds in 1882. He then travelled through Europe examining museum collections and began to work on the taxonomy of the
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and promoted an evolutionary view of faunistics in the Soviet Union. He also studied the birds of prey, published a textbook of zoology, and a two volume work on the birds of Russia.
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to a typhus infection. He joined Moscow University in 1874 where he was influenced by Yakov Andreevich Borzenkov (1825-1883), Sergei Alexandrovich Usov (1827-1886),
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Menzbier was a founding member of Russia's first ornithological body, the Kessler Ornithological Society. Menzbier was a supporter of
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from 1886 until 1911, when he resigned in protest against the oppressive treatment of students there. He then joined the
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Menzbier (left most bearded) with colleagues and students at Moscow University in 1930
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Darwin Without Malthus: The Struggle for Existence in Russian Evolutionary Thought
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and of the selection theory in general." Apart from being a member of the
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Corresponding members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences
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in 1917 he returned to Moscow University where he became
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ornithologist
Moscow University

Tula
Karl Rouillier
Anatoly Petrovich Bogdanov
Nikolai Alekseevich Severtsov
Timiryazev
birds of prey
comparative anatomy
Moscow University
Shanyavsky Moscow City People's University
Russian Revolution
Rector
P.P. Sushkin
S.A. Buturlin
Aleksandr Kots
N.A. Bobrinsky
G.P. Dementiev
V. B. Banjkovsky
V.G. Geptner
Darwinism
struggle for existence
Russian Academy of Sciences
British Ornithologists' Union
Deutsche Ornithologen-Gesellschaft
corresponding member
Zoological Society of London
Société zoologique de France

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