From A to Z: The Portrait Gallery

Photo by R. Brodovsky. Moscow, 1897 6.2 х 10.4 cm Alexei Ivanovich ABRIKOSOV (1875 - 1955) was a Russian physician and professor of Moscow University, member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1939), and Vice President of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (1944 – 1948). He was born in Moscow, in a prominent and affluent business dynasty of the Abrikosovs. Alexei Abrikosov headed autopsies of important early political leaders of the Soviet Union, including, importantly, Vladimir Lenin (1924), but also Mikhail Frunze (1925), Valerian Kuibyshev (1935), and Viktor Nogin (1924). In the early 1950s, as part of the infamous “case of doctors-saboteurs,” both he and his wife were removed from their posts at the Kremlin Hospital. Father of Nobel Prize winner for physics Alexei Abrikosov-junior (2003). Before the revolution, Alexei Abrikosov was a talented amateur photographer and traveled extensively in Europe. See his photo collection of London, Paris, and Budapest on our website. A1507 Donated by Natalia Abrikosova