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When Raissa Berg was six weeks old, her parents separated. Though her mother sued for custody, her father prevailed; he was a
Christian and the Russian Orthodox Church decided such cases. Raissa and her brother Simon were baptized and raised by their father, paternal grandmother Klara L'vovna Berg,
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pressured Soviet geneticists, pushing many researchers out of their institutions. By the time of Berg's dismissal from Moscow
University, "there was only one geneticist at Moscow University's Department of Darwinism and one geneticist at the Institute of Evolutionary Morphology, and I was both of
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in 1941, but the following year Berg returned to Moscow to work on her doctoral dissertation. From 1944 to 1947 she worked as a senior researcher at the
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in 1945. The couple had two daughters, Elizaveta and Maria
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Finding aid, Raisa Berg papers, 1898-2006, Columbia
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