Academic Ancestry

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Mikhail Rimsky-Korsakov

Russian entomologist1873 to 1951

Wikidata names Vladimir Shevyakov as doctoral advisor, lists 1 doctoral student, and lists 3 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

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Mikhail Rimsky-Korsakov, pictured

Two steps up and one down. Dashed lines come from thesis records, solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught3

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Vladimir V. Redikortsev

    born 1873
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Grigory Osmolovsky

    born 1908
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Oleg Katayev

    born 1923

The line above and below4 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 1 person: 1 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.