Судя по всему это философ. Единственная ссылка на него на AMS Reviews:

MR0476307 (57 #15876)
Boss, V.
Newton and Russia. (Russian)
Voprosy Istor. Estestvoznan. i Tehn. Vyp. 3(44) (1973), 30--33.
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This article is largely a discussion of the work of T. P. Kravec, who has studied the spread of Newton's works in Russia [ Isaac Newton, 1643--1727. Collection of papers for the tercentennial of his birth\/ (Russian), pp. 312--328, Izdat. Akad. Nauk SSSR, Moscow, 1943; From Newton to Vavilov\/ (Russian), Izdat. "Nauka", Leningrad, 1967], and of the efforts of J. D. Bruce, a Muscovite associate of Peter the Great who was the first Newtonian in Russia and wrote several books on the subject [see the author, Arch. Internat. Hist. Sci. 15 (1962), no. 60--61, 223--265; Newton and Russia; the early influence, 1698--1796, Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1972].

Посмотрю в нашей институтской библиотеке, но в общем сомневаюсь я, что эта книга у нас когда-либо появится.