Tatiana Gnedich
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Tatiana Grigorievna Gnedich (January 18, 1907 – November 7, 1976) was a Russian translator.
She hailed from a family of poets and scholars, among her ancestors was Nikolai Gnedich, a famous translator of Homer. She moved to Leningrad in 1926 and studied at the Leningrad Institute of History, Philosophy and Linguistics, graduating in 1934. Five years later, she began teaching foreign languages at the First Institute of Foreign Languages. Some years after Russia entered the Second World War, she served as a translator and from 1943 to 1944 she lectured at the Herzen Leningrad State Teacher's Training Institute; she also served as dean of the Herzen literature faculty.[1] While never having left Russia, Gnedich spoke English and French fluently.[2] She was arrested on December 27, 1944, and sentenced to ten years in a labor camp. She was sentenced on charges of "treason to the Soviet motherland."[3]
