The Andrusovs, descendants of the famous Troy researcher

Heinrich Schliemann, who discovered Troy, could not inspire his Russian wife with his work, but his daughter Nadezhda (1861, St. Petersburg, 1935, Lausanne) continued his legacy. In 1889, she married Nikolai Ivanovich Andrusov (1861, Odessa, 1924, Prague), who became an outstanding geologist and paleontologist. He was a recognized expert in the geology of southern Europe and western Central Asia. His scientific works became a significant milestone in the development of stratigraphy, paleontology, and oceanology.

In his youth, Andrusov was fascinated by archaeology, influenced by the ancient history of Kerch, where he grew up. After graduating from Novorossiysk University, he conducted hydrogeological research on the Kerch Peninsula, to which he dedicated his entire life. Shared interests brought him closer to Nadezhda Schliemann. She graduated from gymnasium with a gold medal and studied at the natural sciences department of the Higher Women's Courses. Andrusov defended his doctoral dissertation in 1897, for which he received the Lomonosov Prize, and became an academician in 1914. From 1912 to 1917, they lived in St. Petersburg. Nikolai Ivanovich paid little attention to the events around him, but in 1918, the family was forced to move to Crimea. There, he taught at Tavrichesky University, which was founded in 1918, and was one of its founders. The death of their son in 1919 deeply affected the scholar, and he suffered a stroke. Nadezhda moved him to Paris, where she had a house inherited from her father. Doctors forbade him from engaging in his beloved activities: teaching and going on expeditions. In 1922, they moved to Prague, where Nikolai Ivanovich passed away from a recurrent stroke.

A mud volcano on Bulganak in the Kerch Peninsula, terraces near Sudak, and a system of ridges in the Sea of Abundance on the Moon are named in honor of Andrusov.

His interest in the ancient history of the Earth was passed on to his grandson, Dmitry Nikolayevich Andrusov (1897, 1976, Bratislava). He taught at Charles University in Prague, founded and headed the State Geological Institute in Bratislava, became an academician of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in 1953, and a corresponding member of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in 1956.