«to the North, Closer to Books….»: The Flight From the M. V. Frunze Crimean State University of Professor P. P. Sushkin

The study continues the series of publications about the contacts of Academician V. I. Vernadsky with outstanding Russian scientists – colleagues at the Taurida University after the departure of the former rector from Simferopol. The conditions in which Professor Pyotr Petrovich Sushkin (1868–1928) found himself after another reorganization of the university are shown. Based on information from the correspondence of the scientist with V. I. Vernadsky, the history of the move (in fact, the flight) of P. P. Sushkin from Simferopol to Petrograd, where he managed to get a modest position in the Zoological Museum of the Academy of Sciences, is reconstructed. The letters contain unique information about the life of the Crimean scientific community in the first half of 1921 and complement the information we have already introduced into scientific circulation from the messages to V. I. Vernadsky from Simferopol scientists P. A. Dvoichenko, A. I. Markevich and S. P. Popov.