Sad news

[George Thompson]

Dear Yaroslav,

This is sad news for all of us.  She was a leader not only of Russian 
Indology but of all of us.  Of course, I did not know her as well as you 
and your Russian colleagues knew her, but I do know this: she was 
generous and attentive also to unknown and unpublished graduate 
students, as I was when I first introduced myself to her at one of the 
early Vedic workshops.  She was very generous.

My sincere condolences,

George Thompson

Yaroslav Vassilkov wrote:

>Dear colleagues,
>I feel it my sad duty to inform you that Professor
>Tatiana Elizarenkova passed away on Wednesday,
>5th September in Moscow. She would be 78 later this month.
>As far as I know two months ago she was still actively working on the 2nd volume of the ZaunakIya Atharvaveda (Russian translation).
>It is impossible to imagine a greater and more painful loss for us. Tatyana Yakovlevna was always the non-formal leader of Russian Indology, our highest authority and the perfect, unattainable example to follow.
>We all loved her.
>Yaroslav Vassilkov
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