Larissa Volpert

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Larissa Volpert ( Russian Лариса Ильинична Вольперт / Larissa Iljinitschna Wolpert; born March 30, 1926 in Leningrad ; † October 1, 2017 in New York ) was a Soviet , later Estonian Romanist and chess player .

Life and work

Volpert came from a family of doctors. In 1949 she graduated from the Leningrad State University with a degree in philology (specialization: French literature) . She completed her PhD in 1955. She completed her habilitation with the thesis "Pushkin and the psychological tradition in French literature from the end of the 18th to the first third of the 19th century" in 1989. Her academic interests related to the literary relations between Russia and France from the end of the 18th century up to the first half of the 19th century, especially on the subjects of “Pushkin and French Literature” and “Lermontov and French Literature”.

From 1962 to 1966 she was chief editor and from 1967 lecturer at the chair for Russian literature at the teachers' college in Pskov . From 1977 she was a lecturer at the Chair of Russian Literature at the University of Tartu . In 1985 she moved to the chair for foreign literature. She was professor since 1990 and professor emerita since 1993 at the University of Tartu.

Volpert was married to Professor Pavel Reifman.

chess

Volpert learned to play chess from her older brother. From the seventh grade she attended the chess section in the Leningrad Pioneer Palace. She was trained by Viktor Wassiljew, Vladimir Sak and Pawel Kondratjew . In the Leningrad Women's Championship in 1947, she shared first place with Lyudmila Rudenko . The next tournament she finished in 1948 again on a shared first place. At the Soviet women's championship in 1951 in Kiev , she shared third place with Walentina Belowa . At the women's championship of the USSR in Krasnodar in 1954 , which was carried out as a zone tournament , she won the gold medal and was awarded the title of International Champion (WIM) for this result.

In 1955 Volpert was with 14.5 points out of 19 and without defeat second behind Olga Rubzowa at the Candidates Tournament in Moscow . In 1958 in Kharkov (after a playoff against Kira Sworykina ) and in 1959 in Lipetsk she was again Soviet champion. In May 1959 she finished third behind Sworykina and Verica Nedeljković at the Candidates Tournament in Plovdiv . With the Leningrad selection she won gold at the Soviet team championship in Moscow in 1960 and in Leningrad in 1962. In the 1960s she largely withdrew from tournament chess. In 1977 she was honored with the title of Women's Grand Master (WGM) for her previous achievements .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death report on rus.postimees.ee (Russian)
  2. ↑ Larissa Volpert's results at Soviet team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Volpert, Larissa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Вольперт, Лариса Ильинична (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian Romanist and chess player
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Leningrad
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 2017
Place of death New York City