Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov and the Leningrad Seed Bank

Russian Rulers History Podcast

Mark Schauss

Putin, Science, Usa, History, Crimea, Social Sciences, Russia, Belarus, War, Arts, Revolution, Soviet, Tsar, Ussr, Ukraine

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🗓️ 21 March 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Nikolai Vavilov was one of the great geneticists of the 20th century whose goal was to end famine and starvation. Ironically, he would die in one of Stalin's prisons of hunger. Join me in this tribute to the man who would try to save the world. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - https://www.buzzsprout.com/385372/support Support the show

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0:00.0	Welcome to Russian History Retail episode 215, Nikolai Vanovich Vavilov, and the Leningrad
0:17.2	Seed Bank.
0:20.4	Last time, we talked about the Russian Ukrainian crisis.
0:23.7	Today, I want to get back into history with the story about the heroic actions of a group
0:29.2	of scientists at the Seed Bank during the siege of Leningrad and their inspiration, Nikolai
0:35.5	Ivanovich Vavilov.
0:38.8	My sources for today's podcast includes on Stalin's team by Shilovich Patrick, Khrushchev
0:45.9	by William Talman, the murder of Nikolai Vavilov by Peter Pringle, and an unusual source,
0:53.9	the book Cosmos by Andrew Yann.
0:58.3	It is the last book that actually sparked my interest in Nikolai Vavilov.
1:03.1	The television series Cosmos that was hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson had an episode that
1:09.1	I think it was number four that included this remarkable man's life as well as the scientists
1:14.8	who protected the Seed Bank from destruction.
1:18.4	And I have to thank my daughter, Anika, for giving me the book for my recent birthday.
1:25.1	Nikolai Vavilov was born on November 25, 1887 in Moscow, into a merchant family.
1:32.5	His younger brother, Sergei, was to become a world-renowned physicist, heading the USSR Academy
1:39.2	of Sciences from 1945 until his death in 1951.
1:45.0	Nikolai would have two sons, Oleg and Yuri, and two wives, Ekaterina Sakarova and Elena
1:52.4	Ivanovna Barulina.
1:54.9	The latter was an agricultural geneticist, as was their husband, specializing in of all
2:00.3	things, lentils.
2:03.2	Before we go further on about the life of our focus, I want to share a lengthy section
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