Apollo Mussin-Pushkin

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Apollos Apollosovich Musin-Pushkin
Аполлос Аполлосович Мусин-Пушкин
Apollos in 1788
Born	(1760-02-17)February 17, 1760 Saint Petersburg
Died	April 18, 1805(1805-04-18) (aged 45) Tbilisi
Occupation(s)	Chemist, plant collector

Count Apollos Apollosovich Musin-Pushkin (Russian: Аполло́с Аполло́сович Му́син-Пу́шкин; February 17, 1760 – April 18, 1805) was a Russian chemist and plant collector. He led a botanical expedition to the Caucasus in 1802 with his friend botanist Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein.^[1]

In 1797, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He was a member of the Russian mining board and developed several new methods of refining and processing of platinum.^[2] The genus of Puschkinia commemorates his name.^[3]