Peter Simon Pallas FRS FRSE was a Prussian zoologist, botanist, ethnographer, explorer, geographer, geologist, natural historian, and taxonomist. He studied natural sciences at various universities in early modern Germany and worked primarily in the Russian Empire between 1767 and 1810.
Peter Simon Pallas
Title of the book Travels through the southern Provinces of the Russian Empire, in the years 1793 and 1794
Pallas Estate in Simferopol
Headstone of Peter Simon Pallas in the Berlin-Kreuzberg cemetery
Russian Academy of Sciences
The Russian Academy of Sciences consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation; and additional scientific and social units such as libraries, publishing units, and hospitals.
Russian Academy of Sciences
The building of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg on Universitetskaya Embankment
Portrait of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Original headquarters of the Imperial Academy of Sciences – the Kunstkamera in Saint Petersburg