Vladimir Komarov was a prominent Russian botanist, full member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1869-1944). His mother, Yelizaveta, was the elder daughter of Mikhail Lindenbaum who owned the Rovnoye (Mikhailovskoye) estate in the Borovichsky District. It was in this region that Vladimir Komarov began his botanical studies, while he was a student at St Petersburg University. Throughout his life he kept coming back to Rovnoye. His last visit there dates back to the early 1930s, when he was Vice-President of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The mansion’s ruins could be seen in the middle of the village until the 1990s, when they were dismantled.
