Temira Pachmuss, 1927-2007

[Frank Y Gladney]

It is my sad duty to report the passing of our colleague Temira Pachmuss, who died at her home in Urbana on Tuesday, May 1, after a brief illness.  Temira Andreevna was born December 24, 1927, in Vask-Narva, Estonia.  Her high school studies in Leningrad were interrupted by the War, and she went on to earn B.A. and M.A. degrees at the University of Melbourne.  In 1959 she earned her Ph.D. at the University of Washington, studying under Victor Ehrlich.  She came to the University of Illinois in 1960 and retired from teaching in 1996.  She was a leading authority on 20th-century Russian emigre litterature, the author of Ziniada Gippius: An Intellectual Profile (1971), Women Writers in Russian Modernism: An Anthology (1978), Russian Cultural Revival (1981), and Russian Literature in the Baltic between the World Wars (1988) and the editor and translator of numerous works by Zinaida Gippius and Dmitrii Merezhkovskii.  With the renewed interest in formerly neglected or proscribed !
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thors after the break-up of the Soviet Union, her scholarship finally won recognition also in Russia.  In 2001 she was awarded the Order of the White Star by the Repubic of Estonia.

Frank Y. Gladney

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