Moving beyond the Horizon, or a Prayer for Overcoming

А.М. Panfilov

The life of Steller could easily make a novel. It is a strange that such a novel has not yet been written. The only explanation is that Steller as a researcher and a person was forgotten for a long time. Only over the last fifteen years his works have been translated one after another. As a result, they have occupied the place they deserved in the history of Russian and world science. This stimulated an interest in the personality of the scientist and provoked an increasing number of publications about his life, which was splendid and tragic.

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