In 1922, he accepted an invitation to head the division of agricultural bacteriology at the Pasteur Institute at an experimental station at Brie-Comte-Robert, France, about 30 km from Paris.
Sergei Rachmaninoff | Sergei Prokofiev | Sergei Eisenstein | Sergei Parajanov | Sergei Diaghilev | Sergei Witte | Sergei Ivanov | Sergei Ivanovich Osipov | Sergei Bondarchuk | Sergei Bagapsh | Ivan Sergei | Sergei Yefimovich Zakharov | Sergei Polusmiak | Sergei Osipov | Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia | Sergei Zimin | Sergei Ordzhonikidze | Sergei Kurzanov | Sergei Babayan | Sergei Yursky | Sergei Tretyakov | Sergei Sychyov | Sergei Stadler | Sergei Skripka | Sergei Pavlovich Baltacha | Sergei Pavlenko | Sergei Lyapunov | Sergei Gusev | Sergei Gukov | Sergei Gonchar |
He published more than 100 research papers and influenced many students who later became distinguished botanists and microbiologists such as Sergei Winogradsky (1856–1953), William Gilson Farlow (1844–1919), and Pierre-Marie-Alexis Millardet (1838–1902).