Head and shoulders of Elena Petrovna Sorokina (née Baratynskaya), widow of Pitirim Sorokin.

Bio/Historical Note: Elena Petrovna Sorokina (née Baratynskaya) (1894-1975) was expelled with her husband Pitirim Sorokin (1889-1968) from Russia after the Bolsheviks took over in 1917. She emigrated to the United States in 1923 and received her doctorate in botany from the University of Minnesota. Her scientific papers were published under the name Helen P. Sorokin. For many years she edited the translations from Russian of the American Institute of Biological Sciences. Sorokina delivered Sorokin Lectures No. 7, My Life with Pitirim Sorokin, on 12 March 1974 at the University of Saskatchewan. She died in Massachusetts in 1975.