At an SRG reception for some 30 Russian
scholars, hosted by the Canadian Embassy
in Moscow: 
(left to right:)Vitalij Remizov (Director
of the State L.N. Tolstoy Museum Moscow),
Lidia Gromova (Corresponding Member,
Russian Academy of Sciences) and
Andrew Donskov (Director, Slavic Research
Group at the University of Ottawa)

Photo © May 2001, N. Donskov; all rights reserved. 
 
 
 
 

Robert Major (then Associate Dean of Research, Faculty of Arts, University of Ottawa, now Vice-rector Academic) presents a paper on French-Canadian literature at the invitation of Rector Anatolij Torkunov and Senior Professor Ljudmila Vedenina (left), for her students of French civilisation at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. 

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At the Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow:
Robert Major (left) signs a memorandum of scholarly co-operation with Academician Aleksandr Kudelkin.

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Lidia Gromova presents the Ottawa delegation with a few parting gifts following the signing with the Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow.

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Marina Shcherbakova of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of World Literature in Moscow, our guide to the Museum-Estate of Leo Tolstoy at Yasnaya Polyana 
 

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Robert Major (centre) signs an agreement of co-operation between the University of Ottawa and the Tolstoy Museum Estate at Yasnaya Polyana.  Signing for the Museum are its Director, Vladimir Tolstoy (left) and Senior Researcher, Galina Alekseeva.

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Robert Major, pictured with Galina Galagan and Irina Lukjanets of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) in St-Petersburg, standing by a monument to Pushkin in front of the Institute.

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Robert Major and Academician N.N. Skatov sign the agreement between the University of Ottawa and the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) in St-Petersburg

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