biographical sketch

A. N. Pypin helped many beginning writers to identify their path. B. B. Glinsky was among them. Significant biographical facts related to the history of the writers’ relationships are revealed in understudied printed sources and archive materials introduced into the scientific circulation for the first time.

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.