I. P. Dolbnya. (Life, views, personality)

Abstract

The strong and vivid image of Ivan Petrovich is still fresh in all our minds; it is still difficult to come to terms with the bitterness that this is only an image, that Ivan Petrovich himself is gone. Upon becoming director, Ivan Petrovich did not seek to derive any special benefit from this position for himself; he divided the director’s apartment into two parts and kept the worse one for himself; nor did he, for example, pursue additional appropriations for his assistants. He was a remarkably bright, original and richly gifted personality.

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