Professor Emeritus of Russian, George Krugovoy

[Sibelan Forrester]

Dear colleagues,

I am sad to pass on the news that Dr. George (Yurii) Krugovoy died on 
December 22, 2012.

He was born in 1924 in Kharkov, Ukraine, and studied at the 
Philosophical Institute of the University of Salzburg in Austria from 
1948 to 1955, earning a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. For his dissertation, 
which looked at Russian ethics as an expression of the Russian quest for 
truth, he analyzed the works of Mikhail Sholokhov, 1965 winner of the 
Nobel Prize in literature. He discussed Vladimir Solovyov’s philosophy 
for his Ph.D. orals.

Before coming to Swarthmore College in 1968, George Krugovoy was an 
instructor at Syracuse University from 1959 to 1960 and at Princeton 
University from 1960 to 1963. He was an assistant professor at New York 
University from 1963 to 1964 and then an assistant professor and Oliver 
Ellsworth Bicentennial Preceptor at Princeton University from 1964 to 
1968. He also held a professorship at the Russian Summer School at 
Middlebury College from 1968 to 1981 and was a visiting professor at 
Bryn Mawr College in 1979. He retired from Swarthmore in 1994.

Professor Krugovoy authored two books. In the centennial year of Russian 
writer and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov’s birth, he published The Gnostic 
Novel of Mikhail Bulgakov (1991). His first book, La Lotta Col Drago 
Nell’epos Eroico Russo (1967), examined the Russian heroic epos. He also 
penned numerous scholarly articles and essays about Russia and Russian 
literature.

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