Julian Siemaszko o meteorytach

At the end of the 19th century J. Siemaszko revived interest in meteorites in tsarist Russia. He presented information about contemporarily fallen and historical meteorites in popular newspapers and magazines. He also collected meteorites, and his set was the largest private collection in Europe. Siemaszko is considered to be Russian, but he was a Pole who, orphaned in early childhood, studied and all his adult life worked in St. Petersburg, making a lasting contribution to the development of education in Russia.