  The two of us have shared a fascination with James Victor Uspensky's 1937
textbook $Introduction \, to \, Mathematical \, Probability$ ever since our
graduate student days: it contains many interesting results not found in other
books on the same subject in the English language, together with many
non-trivial examples, all clearly stated with careful proofs. We present some
of Uspensky's gems to a modern audience hoping to tempt others to read Uspensky
for themselves, as well as report on a few of the other mathematical topics he
also wrote about (for example, his book on number theory contains early results
about perfect shuffles).
  Uspensky led an interesting life: a member of the Russian Academy of
Sciences, he spoke at the 1924 International Congress of Mathematicians in
Toronto before leaving Russia in 1929 and coming to the US and Stanford.
Comparatively little has been written about him in English; the second half of
this paper attempts to remedy this.
