From memoirs of director of Nikolaev Observatory B. P. Ostashenko-Kudryavtsev / edited by Zh. A. Pozhalova

The book includes some previously unpublished memoirs of the third director of Nikolaev Astronomical Observatory (1909-1923) Boris P. Ostashenko-Kudryavtsev. They contain interesting descriptions of life in pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg, expeditionary travels to Kursk Province and England at the end of the XIX century, as well as individual episodes of the author's stay in Nikolaev at the first half of the XX century.