LEARMONTH-LERMONTOV. A HYISTORY OF THE NAME AND FAMILIES

who was one of Russia’s leading metallurgic engineers. Nadezhda
Lermontov became an artist, having personal exhibitions and
collaborated with the famous Russian artists Leon Bakst and
Kuzma Sergeevich Petrov-Vodkin. Her paintings are still exhibited
at the Russian Museum, St. Petersburg. She died of tuberculosis at
a young age.
He married his secondary niece Ekaterina Antonovna (1860-1942)
and had five children: Elisabeth (1883-1954); Nadezhda (1885-
1921); Vladimir (1885-1941); Ekaterina (1889-1942); Alexandra
(1892-1964). Vladimir Lermontov’s family lived in his father’s
house in the St. Petersburg.
Vladimir Lermontov’s children were talented people. All
his daughters graduated from Bestuzhevskie Courses or from St.
Petersburg University. His son Vladimir Vladimirovich (1885-
1941) became a physicist. They all survived the revolution in 1917
but they did not join the Communist party and worked as
professional people. Elisabeth Lermontov married V. I. Tyzhnov
Ekaterina Vladimirovna Lermontov (1889-1942) became a
well known Russian paleontologist. Ekaterina was a graduate of
the Women’s Pedagogical Institute in 1910 and from the
University of St. Petersburg in 1912.
Beginning in 1921, Ekaterina worked on the Geological
Committee and later in the All-Union Scientific Research Institute
of Geology. She was the first researcher of Cambrian trilobite
fauna on the territory of the USSR and the creator of the first
Cambrian graphic scheme of Siberia. Her main area of research
was the trilobites of the southern Urals, Siberia, Middle Asia, and
Kazakhstan. Several fossil animals, algae, and biostratigraphic
divisions of the Cambrian have been named after her (Lermontov,
Ekaterina Vladimirovna. Kembriiskaia sistema. Moscow: N.p.,
1965; Bol’shaia sovetskaia entsiklopediia. 3d ed. Moscow: Izd-vo
“Sovetskaia entsiklopediia,” 1973). During the Second World War
she could not leave her sick mother and was not evacuated from
the blockaded St. Petersburg (Leningrad). In 1941, according to the
testament of her mother, she sent their family jewelry that was
evaluated as more as 20 000 rubles to the Russian National
Defense Fund. Among this jewelry was one antique piece, a
diamond necklace (fermuar) that was presented to their aunt Maria
Vladimirovna Lermontov (1840-1916) by her godfather the
Imperator Nikolai I. Ekaterina Lermontov died in the blockade of
Leningrad in the terrible winter of 1942, a year before her brother
Valdimir Lermontov who died there from inflammation of the
lungs.
Alexandra Vladimirovna Lermontov (1892-1964) was a
physicist by education, married to the famous Russian nuclear -
physicist Vladimir Alexandrovich Fok (1898-1972) who did
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