Boris Fedtschenko

Boris Alexeevich Fedtschenko (1872 to 1947) was a Russian plant pathologist and botanist, known for his work on various regions of Russia, especially the Caucasus, Siberia and Asiatic Russia, and head botanist at the Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden. The son of the botanists Olga Fedtschenko and Alexei Pavlovich Fedchenko, he was born in Leipzig while his parents were on an expedition, and his father was killed in a climbing accident on Mont Blanc eight months later. He travelled and collected with his mother, including expeditions to the Crimea, Transcaucasia, the western Tian Mountains and the Pamirs, and by 1902 he headed the herbarium of the botanic garden in Saint Petersburg. With Alexander Flyorov he published Flora Evropejskoj Rossii in 1908 to 1910, and he died in Leningrad in 1947.