Golitsyn Boris Borisovich

An outstanding geophysicist, creator of seismology, the science of movement in the earth's crust, inventor of the seismograph, explorer of Novaya Zemlya, director of the Pulkovo Observatory (1913-1916), academician (1898), prince.

“The life of a wonderful person should forever remain among our young generations in a luminous way for feasible imitation,” wrote A.P. Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, shocked by the early death of a friend. In Borovichi district, Golitsyn in 1896 bought the Staroselye estate and was its owner until the end of his days. He came to relax and hunt, gladly received guests and himself participated in musical evenings in the neighboring estate of Rovnoe-Mikhailovskoye, was a trustee of the Yogol school. From the former estate, which is ten kilometers from Borovichi, almost no traces remain - it was burned back in the late 1920s.