ENSIGN VLADIMIR TOLSTOY IN REVOLUTIONARY SEVASTOPOL: AN EPISODE FROM THE LIFE OF AN ICHTHYOLOGIST
Journal: Cultural code
Year: 2025

The article examines the biography of the scientist and officer Vladimir Konstantinovich Tolstoy. The focus is on his socio-political activities in Sevastopol in 1917. Before the start of the First World War, V. K. Tolstoy graduated from St. Petersburg University and began a research in the field of ichthyology. During the war, he was drafted into the army, underwent training and received the rank of ensign (wartime officer). V. K. Tolstoy met the beginning of the 1917 revolution while serving i