Seeking help/advice/contacts for visit of Tolstoy scholar

[Linda Scatton]

Dear Members of SEELANGS:
   As part of a sister-city relationship between Albany, NY and Tula, Russia, we
 are planning to
host a visiting scholar in April who is an expert on L.N. Tolstoj.  She is a
 professor at Tul'skij
Gosudarstvennyj  Pedagogicheskij Universitet imeni L'va Tolstogo, where they
 have a Tolstoj
Studies Center.  Jasnaja poljana, of course, is on the outskirts of Tula.
 Professor Elena Meleshko
is the author of a monograph on Tolstoj's philosophy and is interested in
 contacting other Tolstoj
scholars, especially in the Northeast US.  Beyond philosophy, she is interested
 in all facets of
Tolstoj's creative activity.  She has expressed a desire to visit Vassar College
 for Tolstoj
correspondence held there, to visit E. Balou's monument in Hopedale MA (I'm
 unfamiliar with this),
to talk w/ Robert Whittaker of CUNY, and to get acquainted with the Tolstoj
 Foundation.    I would
be grateful if any members of the SEELANGS list could recommend further
 appropriate contacts
for her, and/or could give me up-to-date contact info for the items mentioned
 above....  I also recall
a Tolstoj Home Page on the Net being announced, but cannot retrieve the URL.
 Are there other
scholars she should see?  All advice gratefully received.  Many thanks in
 advance.
  Linda Scatton
  Chair, Albany-Tula Alliance