11 September] 1885 in Korcheva, Tver, northwest of Moscow on the upper Volga River, a town now submerged beneath the Ivankovo Reservoir.

[2] Today, this analysis is considered pioneering and fundamental to control theory as work by James Clerk Maxwell, Edward John Routh, and Adolf Hurwitz.

[5] Upon request of the United States Department of the Navy, the National Academy of Sciences established a committee chaired by William F. Durand to investigate anti-rolling devices on ships.

Promising results were beginning to appear when the outbreak of the Second World War interrupted further development as the Hamilton was called to active duty and the 5-ton model was put into storage.

[2] From 1940 to 1946, he was a special consultant to the Director of the David Taylor Model Basin, continuing his investigations of active ship stabilization and anti-submarine warfare.

After retirement Nicolas Minorsky and his French-born wife, Madeline (Palisse) moved to southern France and settled in the foothills of the Pyrenees.

[2] Minorsky continued to work, giving seminars and lectures in Europe, authoring theoretical papers until the end of his life in 1970.