The website of the “Lyceum” magazine announced the death of the prominent Russian linguist Lydia Savelyeva, a descendant of the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, in Petrozavodsk, at the age of 84, as a result of her infection with the Corona virus.
And the site indicated in a publication, that “the professor of linguistics was admitted to the hospital after being infected with the Corona virus, as she celebrated on the 7th of this June her 84th birthday, to announce her death on Sunday night.”
Savelyeva was born in 1937 in the village of Semenovskaya in the Mikhnovsky district into a family of philologists, a direct descendant of the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, where his eldest son Alexander Alexandrovich was Sophia’s grandfather and Lydia Savelyeva’s grandmother.
Savelyeva studied at the Faculty of Languages of Leningrad State University and worked at the Karelian Pedagogical Institute for 50 years.
She is famous for her research in the history of the Russian language, antiquity and theology.
She pioneered the decoding and interpretation of the Slavic alphabet in a poetic text, and introduced the concept of “the environment of language to science”, which was highly appreciated by Academician Dmitry Likachev.
Source: “Lenta.ru”