135 years ago, Nadezhda Ladygina-Kohts, co-founder of the SDM and a world-famous scientist, was born

Nadezhda Ladygina-Kohts was an outstanding world-famous scientist and the country's first female zoopsychologist. The book “The Chimpanzee Child and the Human Child” (1935), to which she devoted 16 years of her life, brought her worldwide fame and recognition. Nadezhda Nikolaevna was also a reliable support for her husband, Alexander Kohts, in the creation of the Darwin Museum - more than once the family abandoned their own well-being in favor of preserving and increasing the museum collections. A courageous woman who continued to be involved in science and the museum even after the Revolution, which turned the world upside down, and during the difficult years of World War II, and during the time of Stalinist repressions. She was also a beloved and loving wife. Despite all the difficulties, the Kohts couple were always together and were married for more than half a century.

A loving wife and tender mother, an inquisitive scientist and the country's first female zoopsychologist, the founder of the world's first museum of evolution - this is how we know our Nadezhda Ladygina-Kohts. And it is precisely this multifaceted personality that we tried to show at the exhibition “Her Museum, Book, and Portrait” (until July 14), which turned out to be very bright and light, just like Nadezhda.