Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag GmbH, 2012. — 37-47 p. (Man and nature in the Altaic world: proceedings of the 49th Permanent International Altaistic Conference, Berlin, July 30 - August 4, 2006)
On November 11th 1827, Carl Johann Maximowicz; one of Imperial Russia's most outstanding botanists, was born in Tula, a small town and centre of iron mining and heavy industry, located 165 km to the south of Moscow, on the river Upa. Carl Maximowicz was of German descent. After he had attended the German Parochial school of St. Anna in St. Petersburg, he was sent for his higher education to Dorpat (Tartu) where he studied between 1845 and 1850 successively Medicine and Botany at the famous Kaiserliche Universitdt zu Dorpat (Imperatorskij Derptskij Universitet). In 1850, having taken his degree of Candidate, Maximowicz became Alexander von Bunge's , his teacher in Botany, assistant to the university's botanical garden. Together with von Bunge a. o. he undertook a first short botanical excursion through Livland in 1852. In the same year, he was finally appointed Keeper of the Herbarium at St. Petersburg's botanical garden. On behalf of this institution he set out at the young age of 26 on an expedition to the Far East, into the region of the river Amur in the Sino-Russian borderlands, the suzerainty of which was still an apple of discord between the courts in St. Petersburg and Beijing.
