ABSTRACT
Daring, hard work, struggle, and perseverance-these are the words that come first to mind when I sit down to describe my father, Professor Gavriil A. Ilizarov, and his life’s work. I find the task daunting. How does a daughter adequately describe the life of a man she knew so well personally, yet whose life was so full of complicated and extraordinary events that it lay before her like a novel of fiction?
