The article reviews a new book about A. N. Pypin prepared by N. Chernyshevkiy’s Memorial Estate. Book contents – a summary article on the professional and personal life of the academician, A. N. Pypin’s first ever published work on N. G. Chernyshevkiy’s publishers, and epistolary stocked in the museum – prompts picturing the scientist as a personality beyond formal labels and evaluations.
