Career
This article is about the 19th-century lepidopterist Nikolay Yershov. Nikolaj Grigor"jevitsch Erschov, also spelled Erschoff (Russian: Николай Григорьевич Ершов) (b 23 April 1837, Moscow. Doctorate 12 March 1896, Saint St. Petersburg) was a Russian entomologist mainly interested in Lepidoptera.
Erschov"s insect collection is in the Zoological of the Russian Academy of Science.