Nikolai Timofeev-Resovsky... Bison. One of the founding fathers of modern genetics. Miraculously surviving in Nazi Germany and the Gulag, he not only survived, but laid the foundations of radiation biology and genetics. The collection also includes: the work “This Strange Life”, dedicated to the talented Russian biologist Alexander Lyubishchev, and the essay “How to work as a genius” - about the life and work of the great physicist Pyotr Kapitsa.