Masalsky (Prince Vladislav Ivanovich) - writer, genus. in 1859 in Vilna province., graduated from the course on nature. dep. Physic.-matem. Fak. SPb. univ.; was sent for botanical and geographical. research in the former Batumi region, then in the southern part of the Kars region. and in the border parts of Asia Minor; later investigated the position of cotton growing in the Trans-Caspian region., Turkestan and Bukhara and the state of some cultures in the Caucasus.