Fig. 4

The destruction of Russian human genetics (photographs courtesy of Dalia Epstein, Lithuanian Historical Museum, Vilnius).a. The Moscow Medical Genetics Institute, 1934. The first and largest institute to be devoted to Medical Genetics; abolished 1937. b. Solomon Levit (1894–1938), first (and only) director of the Moscow Medical Genetics Institute. c. A prison photograph of Solomon Levit following his arrest in 1937 (precise date uncertain)