Romanoff, Alexis Lawrence ___ 1892-1980 ___ Russian ___ soldier teacher

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
Romanoff was born in St Petersburg into a land owning family. The First World War appears to have stymied his wish to become an artist, instead he entered the National Military Engineering Academy in St. Petersburg, and then served as a lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers. In 1920, he went to China, then to the US, where he studied biology at Cornell University. He stayed on at the university to teach. He married Anastasia Sayenko in 1928. Together they collaborated on embryological research and scientific writing. Romanoff eventually became a professor of chemical embryology.
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DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS
1917-1920 1936-1948 ___ military self education science US

WEB TEXT LINKS
 

ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS
Cornell University Library - possibly,

SOME PUBLISHED TITLES
Diaries through War and Peace: One Life in Two Worlds
 

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