Shtakelberg Natalia Sergeevna

Genus. 04.02. 1897 in Yekaterinburg. In 1916 she entered the Faculty of History and Philology of Petrograd University, and in 1920 she graduated from the Faculty of Social Sciences. Left at the department

Russian history, where she worked for four years. In 1924, she was dismissed due to her social background. Received orders for the compilation of bibliographic reference books. For her work on one of them, “Bibliography of Malaria,” she received the degree of Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences. In 1920 she got married. She lived in Leningrad, on Asilievsky Island, 7 line, no. 2, apt. 13, where in the early 1920s the “circle of young historians”, an informal association of graduate students and university teachers, met for their meetings. She was arrested among other members of the circle on the night of January 13-14, 1930. She spent more than six months in the House of Pre-trial Detention.    08/20/1930 released from custody. Since 1932 she worked at the Zoological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In December 1934 she received orders to leave Leningrad. The deportation was avoided thanks to an appeal from the President of the USSR Academy of Sciences A.P. Karpinsky to the People's Commissar of Justice of the RSFSR N.V. Krylenko with a letter in defense and assistance of Lenizdat director V.I. Vronchenko. In 1947, she retired from the Zoological Institute and has not served since then. She died on May 16, 1978 in Leningrad.

Author of memoirs: N.S. Stackelberg. “Circle of Young Historians” and “Academic Affairs” // IN MEMORIAM. Historical collection in memory of F.F. Perchenko. PHOENIX-ATHENEUM. Moscow-St. Petersburg. 1995. pp. 19-86.