V.M. Setchkarev Memorial Prize

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                        V. M. Setchkarev Memorial Prize

In memory of Professor Vsevolod Mikhailovich Setchkarev, an outstanding
literary scholar and teacher who was our deeply admired and respected
advisor, colleague and friend, the members of the Setchkarev Memorial Prize
Committee are establishing the annual Setchkarev Memorial Prize, to be
awarded to the best undergraduate and graduate essays on Russian literature
(or on comparative literature including Russian literature) submitted in
Harvard Slavic Department courses during the current academic year.
Professors from the Slavic Department will submit nominations for the prizes
to the committee, which will select the winners. The monetary amount of the
awards will be determined in accordance with the volume of donations received.

A joint account for donations has been opened at the Chase Manhattan Bank by
Margaret Setchkarev and Lynn Visson. Once donations amounting to $2,500 have
been received, the account will be transferred to the Harvard Endowment, and
contributions will then be tax-deductible. However, since the committee
wishes without further delay to commence raising funds to honor the memory of
Vsevolod Mikhailovich, who passed away more than a year ago, we are appealing
to your generosity in starting this project now, so that the first prizes can
be awarded at the end of the spring 2001 semester.

Checks for the Setchkarev Prize can be made out to either Lynn Visson or
Margaret Setchkarev. Please write on the memo portion of the check
"Setchkarev Prize Committee." Donations may be sent to us at:

        Lynn Visson                       Margaret Setchkarev
        170 West End Avenue, 17N        72 Scott Road
        New York, NY 10023          Belmont, MA 02478

The members of the committee will be glad to answer any questions you may
have. We hope that students, friends and colleagues of Vsevolod Mikhailovich
will respond generously to this effort to honor and perpetuate his memory at
Harvard by encouraging the work of those young scholars and future
specialists in Russian literature who will carry on the tradition of research
and teaching to which he devoted so many years of his life.

Co-Chairs:  Sonia Ketchian (Harvard Davis Center) and Lynn Visson (United
Nations)
Margaret Setchkarev
Michael Flier (Chair, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard
University,  ex-officio)
Edythe Haber (University of Massachusetts Boston)
Stanley Rabinowitz (Amherst College)
David Sloane (Tufts University)

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