Lidiia Dmitrievna Gromova-Opul'skaia

[Donna Orwin]

Dear Colleagues,

It is my sad task to inform you that Academician Lidiia Dmitrievna 
Gromova-Opul'skaia passed away on December 31, 2003. Born on May 21, 
1925 in a village near Moscow, the daughter of a village school teacher, 
Lidiia Dmitrievna was the greatest Tolstoy scholar of her generation and 
an extraordinary good will ambassador to scholars around the world. She 
prepared 10 volumes of the great Jubilee Edition of Tolstoy’s works and 
wrote extensive commentaries on the preparation of texts and the 
creative histories of various works included in the Jubilee. When N. N. 
Gusev passed away, Lidiia Dmitrievna continued his biography of Tolstoy, 
publishing 2 volumes that brought it up to 1899. Lidiia Dmitrievna also 
worked on many individual books related to Tolstoy studies. These 
include volumes of letters and memoirs as well as volumes of 
Literaturnye pamiatniki editions of Tolstoy’s works. She championed and 
in the past few years she has headed a new 120 volume Academy edition, 
of which 6 volumes have been published already and many more are underway.

In addition to her work on Tolstoy, Lidiia Dmitrievna prepared volumes 6 
and 7 of the Academy edition of Dostoevsky, and several volumes of the 
Academy edition of Chekhov. She is the author of over 100 articles on 
Tolstoy, Chekhov, Herzen, among others.

A Panikhida will be held for Lidiia Dmitrievna in January 6 at IMLI in 
Moscow. /Tolstoy Studies Journal/ will be dedicating the 2004 issue of 
the journal to Lidiia Dmitrievna, and we will be honoring her in other 
ways as well.

Sincerely,
Donna Orwin, Editor
/Tolstoy Studies Journal/

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