In 2012, my SpringerBrief, <i>Early Russian Organic Chemists and Their Legacy</i> was published, and I sent a copy of the book to Academician Konovalov in Kazan, with whom I had corresponded nearly two decades earlier. Our correspondence lapsed because I was moving, so we lost contact. Since his receipt of my book, doors that I never imagined existed have opened for me to speak at universities in Russia: Ekaterinburg, Kazan, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Tomsk and Vladikavkaz. In this rather personal account, I will discuss the evolution of my research in the history of chemistry in the light of its genesis in that one little book

Ten years on: How a springer brief led to a decade of Russian conferences

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