Nikolai Kuznetsov

Russian botanist (1864-1932).

Nikolai Ivanovich Kuznetsov (Николай Иванович Кузнецов; 1864-1932) was a Russian botanist. He was born and died in Saint Petersburg (Leningrad). He was a graduate of and a professor at Saint Petersburg State University. Kuznetsov spent 30 years of his career exploring the flora of the Caucasus. He was considered, along with Alexander Fomin and Nikolai Busch, a leading authority on the subject since the late 1880s, when all three conducted expeditions in the Caucasus under the auspices of the Russian Geographical Society. He penned a lot of articles for the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dict