Porfiry Krylov

Porfiry Krylov (Порфирий Никитич Крылов, 13 August 1850, village of Sagaiskoe (Сагайское), Minusinsk Hollow [now part of Krasnoyarsk Krai] – 27 December 1931, Tomsk) was a Russian botanist, known for his plant collecting expeditions.

His father was Nikita Kondratyevich Krylov (Никита Кондратьевич Крылов, 1792–1873), Perm merchant of the first guild, hereditary honorary citizen, and commerce advisor.

After the fourth year, during the fifth year of secondary school, he was expelled from the gymnasium due to failure to appear for an exam and received a certificate of completion of four classes of the gymnasium with grades: “good” and “sufficient”, including “excellent” in Latin and “mediocre” in German.

In the proceedings of the Society of Naturalists of the Imperial Kazan University, he published, at the age of 23, his first scientific work — which consisted of notes on a raspberry species in the genus Rubus.

[1] In 1915 the Permian entrepreneur Nikolai Vasilievich Meshkov (Николай Васильевич Мешков) and the botanist Pavel Vasilievich Syuzev (Павел Васильевич Сюзев) prepared reports for the creation in Perm of a public garden — but this project remained unrealized as a result of the October Revolution and the Russian Civil War.

His students included Viktor Vladimirovich Reverdatto (Виктор Владимирович Ревердатто), Lidiya (or Lydia) Palladiyevna Sergiyevskaya (Лидия Палладиевна Сергиевская), and Boris Konstantinovich Schischkin.

[1] Uncontrollably galloping horses pulling the carriage in which Krylov and Sergiyevskaya were traveling caused a severe accident.