Count Apollos Apollosovich Musin-Pushkin (; 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. 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. The genus of Puschkinia commemorates his name. References 1760 births 1805 deaths Chemists from the Russian Empire Russian nobility 18th-century botanists from the Russian Empire Russian inventors Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Honorary members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences Fellows of the Royal Society