Struve fled Russia and the Bolsheviks at the time of the revolution and wound up in Turkey, impoverished, until a relative put him in touch with the director of the Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin, who offered him a job as a spectroscopist. Struve later became director of the observatory, as well as McDonald Observatory in Texas and Leuschner Observatory in Berkeley. Suntzeffs family also fled Russia, though they headed in the other direction, to China and, eventually, San Francisco. There Suntzeffs grandmother reunited with Otto Struve. Small world.
