Galina Krivosheina

A.P. Bogdanov (1834-1896) - zoologist, anthropologist, Moscow University professor, and an outstanding entrepreneur for science - has often been called «the first Russian historian of zoology» by his biographers. The entire body of his works on the history of science has not been studied in full, however. The present article attempts to provide an overview of Bogdanov's works in the history of science, including both his published papers and manuscripts stored in the Archives of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Among the latter are the two-volume «Lectures on the History of Zoology» delivered at Moscow University. Bogdanov also acted as chronicler and annalist for the Society of the Friends of the Natural Sciences, Anthropology, and Ethnography, founded on his initiative by Moscow University. In the Society's «Proceedings,» he regularly published detailed minutes of the meetings of the organization, as well as its branches and committees, which provide a vivid depiction of Moscow's scientific life during the second half of the nineteenth century.