Ludmilla Buketoff Turkevich
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Ludmilla Buketoff Turkevich | |
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| Born | September 14, 1909 New Britain, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Died | April 14, 1995 (age 85) Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Other names | L. B. Turkevich |
| Relatives | Igor Buketoff (brother) Leontius Turkevich (father-in-law) Anthony L. Turkevich (brother-in-law) |
Ludmilla Buketoff Turkevich (September 14, 1909 – April 14, 1995) was an American professor of Russian language and literature. She was the first woman to teach at Princeton University, and the chair of the Russian department at Douglass College, the women's college of Rutgers University.
Ludmilla Buketoff was born in New Britain, Connecticut,[1] the daughter of Konstantin Buketoff and Milica Lebedeff Buketoff. Her father was a Russian Orthodox priest; her younger brother Igor Buketoff became an orchestra conductor.[2][3] She graduated from New York University in 1930,[4] and earned a master's degree in Romance language and literature at the University of Kansas in 1932,[5] and completed doctoral studies at Columbia University in 1949,[6] with a thesis titled "Cervantes in Russia".[7][8]
Career
Turkevich taught Spanish and Russian at the New Jersey College for Women in the 1940s.[9] In 1944, she became the first woman to become a lecturer at Princeton University. In 1958, she supported the United States delegation at the Second Conference for Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, held in Geneva. In 1959, she was a lecturer at the American Exhibition in Moscow.[10][11] In 1961 she received a distinguished service award from the United States Information Agency.[12]
Turkevich was chair of the Russian department at Douglass College of Rutgers University for eighteen years, from 1961 to 1979.[7] She hosted a campus reception for visiting Russian journalists in 1965.[13] She was president of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages.[1][7]
