Protistology  •  15 (1), 41–45 (2021)

        Konstantin Sergeyevitch Merezhkovsky (1855–1921) – the protistologist who discovered the origin of eukaryotic cells

        Sergei I. Fokin

        Department of Biology, Zoology-Anthropology Unit, University of Pisa, 56126 Pisa, Italy
        Department of Invertebrate Zoology, St. Petersburg State University, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia
        St. Petersburg Branch of the S.I. Vavilov Institute of History of Science and Technology Russian Academy of Sciences, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia

        | Submitted February 7, 2021 | Accepted February 24, 2021 |

        Summary

        This article presents a life story of Prof. K.S. Merezhkovsky and his contribution to Protistology and evolution theory. Despite the conventional point of view, he cannot be treated as a pure botanist, but rather as protistologist, zoologist, and even a successful anthropologist and science fiction writer.

        Key words:  life story, K.S. Merezhkovsky, protists, theory of symbiogenesis

        Address for correspondence:
        Sergei I. Fokin. Department of Biology, Protistology-Zoology Unit, University of Pisa, 56126, Pisa, Italy; St. Petersburg Branch of the S.I. Vavilov Institute of History of Science and Technology Russian Academy of Sciences, and St. Petersburg State University, 199034, St. Petersburg, Russia;;
        e-mail: sifokin@mail.ru

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