Russia and the Great Wine Blight
Friday, February 11th, 2011
| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, February 11, 2011 | 4:00PM - 6:00PM | Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies 1 Devonshire Place |
Description
By the mid-1880s, the phylloxera epidemic had spread through much of Russia’s Black Sea wine belt, from the Caucasus in the east to Bessarabia in the west. Despite news from Bordeaux of a proven cure, the chief architect of Russia’s anti-phylloxera campaign, the evolutionary embryologist Alexander Kovalevskii, continued for many years to espouse treatments that were plainly ineffective. Why Kovalevskii was wrong is a story that stretches from government halls in St. Petersburg and Odessa, to laboratories in Marseilles and Montpellier. But mostly, it is about the blinding romance of scientific progress.
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