[KS] Congratulations to Adelaida Fedorovna Trotsevich on Her Ninetieth Birthday

[Frank Joseph Shulman]

Born on January 7, 1930, Dr. Adelaida Fedorovna Trotsevich has led a
remarkable career in promoting a greater knowledge and appreciation of
Korean literature in Russia through her studies, her many years of
teaching, and her numerous publications.

At St. Petersburg State University (formerly Leningrad State
University), Dr. Trotsevich earned both her Candidate of Philological
Sciences degree (1962) with a 252 page dissertation entitled
"'Istoriia o vernosti Chkhun Khian' i zhanr povesti v koreiskoi
srednevekovoi literature" ["'History of the Loyalty of Ch'unhyang' and
the Story as a Genre of Korean Literature"], written under the
supervision of Aleksandr A. Kholodovich, and in 1983, the degree of
Doctor of Philological Sciences (equivalent to the Habilitation
degree) for which she completed a 470 page thesis on the Korean
medieval novel ["Koreiskii srednevekovyi roman"]. She has taught and
mentored an entire generation of Russian students and scholars of
Korean literature as a member of the Faculty of Oriental Studies at
St. Petersburg State University. Among them are three scholars who
wrote their dissertations for the degree of Candidate of Philological
Sciences under her supervision: Inna Valeriantovna Tsoi, whose thesis
(2003) was on the stories of Kim Tong-in; Li San Yun, whose thesis
(2008) is entitled “Novels in the Writings by Modern Female Writers of
the Republic of Korea (Pak Wan-seo, Sin Kyeong-suk and Eun
Hui-gyeong)”; and Anastasiia Alexandrovna Gurieva, whose thesis (2012)
is entitled "An Anthology of Korean Traditional Poetry 'Namhun
Taepyeong-ga (Songs of the Great Calmness Under the South Wing)' (by a
Xylograph from the Collection of the Institute of Oriental
Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences)".

Dr. Trotsevich has published many monographs, editions of Korean
texts, articles and translations from Korean into Russian including
such works (accompanied by summaries in English) as "Koreiskaia
srednevekovaia povest" ["The Korean Medieval Story"] (Moskva: Nauka,
1975. 264p.) and "Koreiskii srednevekovyi roman: "Oblachnyi son
deviati" Kim Mandzhuna" ["The Korean Medieval Novel: Kuunmong by Kim
Man-jung"] (Moskva: "Nauka", 1986. 198p.). She also interacted with
scholars outside of Russia through her participation in a number of
international conferences of the Association for Korean Studies in
Europe during the 1980s and 1990s.

For many years, Dr. Trotsevich was in charge of the Korean manuscripts
at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the
U.S.S.R. (renamed in 1992 as the Russian Academy of Sciences, St.
Petersburg Branch). Among her latest accomplishments has been the
preparation and publication with her former student Anastasia A.
Gurieva of a major, two-volume description of the manuscripts and
block-prints of Korean traditional culture -- entitled "Opisanie
pis’mennykh pamiatnikov koreiskoi traditsionnoi kultury" -- that are
included in the collection of Chinese block-prints kept in the library
of the Faculty for Oriental Studies of St. Pertersburg National
University (published in St. Petersburg in 2007. 300p.) and those that
are preserved in the Manuscript Department of the Institute of
Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St.
Petersburg (2009. 424p.).

May I invite other scholars, researchers and students to join with me
and her many Russian colleagues in extending congratulations via the
Korean Studies list to Adelaida Fedorovna Trotsevich on this special
occasion -- her 90th birthday -- and to express appreciation of her
life-long contributions to the field of Korean Studies.

Frank Joseph Shulman

January 6, 2020

-- 
Frank Joseph Shulman
Bibliographer, Editor and Consultant for Reference Publications in Asian Studies
Associate Editor, Bibliography of Asian Studies of the Association for
Asian Studies
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