Professor Richard Peace

[Ruth Coates]

I am posting a message from my colleague Professor Derek Offord about the
recent passing of Professor Richard Peace:

It is with sadness that the Department of Russian at Bristol (UK) informs
subscribers to SEELANGS of the sudden death of Richard Peace on Thursday 5
December. Richard, who was born in 1933, was the first lecturer to be
appointed to teach Russian at Bristol, in 1963, and he led the small
sub-department, as it then was, until 1975, when he was appointed to a
Chair of Russian at the University of Hull. He returned to Bristol in 1984,
to take up the newly created Chair of Russian, and remained in Bristol, as
Head of Department, until his retirement in 1994. Richard will be
remembered for many things. He was one of the major students of classical
Russian literature in his generation and a Vice-President of the
International Dostoevsky Society. He was also a past President of our
national association of Slavists (then BUAS), an active promoter of
educational exchange with the Soviet Union, a tireless defender of his
subject against the threats it faced and a respected and congenial
colleague. It is of some consolation that just three weeks ago the
department at Bristol celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of its foundation
with a large gathering of colleagues, former colleagues and alumni and that
Richard, who had led the department for twenty-two of its fifty years,
greatly enjoyed this event.

Professor Derek Offord

Best wishes to all

Ruth Coates
-- 
Senior Lecturer, Department of Russian Studies

Undergraduate Officer, School of Modern Languages
Student Consultation Hours: Mondays 14:00-15:30;Thursdays 14:00-15:30

1.51, 17 Woodland Road
BRISTOL BS8 1TE

Tel: 0117 928 8190 (internal: 88190)

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