Sergei Alexandrovich Rachinskiĭ (Сергей Александрович Рачинский) (1833–1902)

Russian botanist and educator. Received an advanced degree in botany in Moscow in 1859 with a thesis on movement in plants; professor of plant physiology, Moscow, 1859–67. Translated Origin into Russian, 1864. Resigned from the university for political reasons. Returned to Tatevo, Smolensk, his birthplace, where he founded a school for village childeren and contributed to the development of pedagogy. Corresponding member, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1891.