Extract (January 2021) from The Ibis, journal of the British Ornithologists' Union
In the list of members of the BOU will be found the names of six Russian ornithologists, and we have recently made several attempts to find out what has become of them since the revolution in Russia.
From various sources we learn the following, though the evidence is not altogether satisfactory in any single case. Michael Menzbier is believed to have been murdered in the streets of Moscow early in the revolution.
Sergius Buturlin is also reported to have died.
Valentine Bianchi is alive and still at the Museum of the Academy of Sciences at Petrograd.
Peter Suskin was recently at Simferopol in the Crimea where he was acting as a professor in the so-called 'White University'.
What has happened to him since the invasion and occupation of the Crimea by the Bolshevist forces we have not heard.
We have no news of Gregory Poliakov or Sergius Alpheraki.
Baron Loudon, another ornithologist, though not on our list of members, was robbed and plundered of his possessions and driven out of Livonia by the Bolshevists and is now living in Berlin.
The editor or secretary of the BOU would be very glad of my further information in regard to the fate of our unfortunate fellow-ibises in Russia.
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