I am B.F. Egorov's daughter, and the link to your article was forwarded to my husband, who shared it with me. I apologize for writing in English - my keyboard is not russifyed, and it would take me forever to type in Russian.
It's very flattering to know that you have such a high opinion of my Dad's writings and research. I love him dearly, and am very proud of all his books and articles. I don't think he was such a good lecturer as Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman, and I am definitely no scholarly type to make any kind of deep analysis regarding his scientific works.
My thoughts are based on life long experience, on many scholars that visited our house in Tartu and St. Petersburg, on my numerous visits to Lotman's house in Tartu, and my visits as a student (in Tartu University and LGPI) to both my Dad's and Lotman's lectures.
Yu.M. was an extremely humble individual, and would always speak about himself as if he were nothing special. This was his manner of speaking. However, all the scholars that visited our house, both from Russia and abroad, were always speaking about Lotman as a genius. I think they were right. I don't know if you met Yu.M. personally, but you would, you would know that he was an absolutely special man. He was just extremely modest, and probably some people were taking it too seriously and thought - oh, he can't be a real scholar if he speaks about himself in such a way. Well, he was.
Something about the tone of your article is bothering me - it's too light, too diminishing. There is something disrespectful about the way you speak about Yu.M. I forwarded this link to my Dad - maybe he would respond to you in a more coherent way, with facts and figures.
My response is of an emotional kind, based more on my feelings and intuition, but during my life, I learned, you can trust that too.
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Date: 2002-01-28 04:49 pm (UTC)I am B.F. Egorov's daughter, and the link to your article was forwarded to my husband, who shared it with me. I apologize for writing in English - my keyboard is not russifyed, and it would take me forever to type in Russian.
It's very flattering to know that you have such a high opinion of my Dad's writings and research. I love him dearly, and am very proud of all his books and articles. I don't think he was such a good lecturer as Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman, and I am definitely no scholarly type to make any kind of deep analysis regarding his scientific works.
My thoughts are based on life long experience, on many scholars that visited our house in Tartu and St. Petersburg, on my numerous visits to Lotman's house in Tartu, and my visits as a student (in Tartu University and LGPI) to both my Dad's and Lotman's lectures.
Yu.M. was an extremely humble individual, and would always speak about himself as if he were nothing special. This was his manner of speaking. However, all the scholars that visited our house, both from Russia and abroad, were always speaking about Lotman as a genius. I think they were right. I don't know if you met Yu.M. personally, but you would, you would know that he was an absolutely special man. He was just extremely modest, and probably some people were taking it too seriously and thought - oh, he can't be a real scholar if he speaks about himself in such a way. Well, he was.
Something about the tone of your article is bothering me - it's too light, too diminishing. There is something disrespectful about the way you speak about Yu.M. I forwarded this link to my Dad - maybe he would respond to you in a more coherent way, with facts and figures.
My response is of an emotional kind, based more on my feelings and intuition, but during my life, I learned, you can trust that too.
Respectfully,
Tatiana Miller
Wausau, Wisconsin
millert@ntc.edu