Margarita Vorobyova-Desyatovskaya

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Margarita Vorobyova-Desyatovskaya
Born(1933-01-28)28 January 1933
Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died13 June 2021(2021-06-13) (aged 88)
Saint Petersburg, Russia
CitizenshipSoviet, Russian
Alma materSaint Petersburg State University
SpouseVladimir Vorobyov-Desyatovsky
Scientific career
FieldsCentral Asian manuscripts
InstitutionsInstitute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Theses
  • Глагол в тибетском языке VII–XI вв. (The Verb in the Tibetan Language, 7th-11th centuries)  (1966)
  • Records of Indian and Tibetan Literature of the first millennium AD from East Turkestan and Central Asia as a source on history and culture  (1989)

Margarita Iosifovna Vorobyova-Desyatovskaya (Russian: Маргари́та Ио́сифовна Воробьёва-Деся́товская; 28 January 1933 – 13 June 2021) was a Russian Orientalist best known for her research on Central Asian manuscripts in the Sanskrit, Khotanese and Scythian languages. She retired as Curator of Central Asian manuscripts at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Saint Petersburg.

Life

Margarita Vorobyova-Desyatovskaya was born in Leningrad in 1933. She took her Indologist husband, Vladimir Vorobyov-Desyatovsky's last name upon marriage.

In 1950, she began studies at the Indian department of the Oriental School of the

Tibetan grammar
.

She worked as a senior researcher in the Tibetan division of the school, later joining the South and South-east Asian division. From 1982 to 2005, she was the head of the department of manuscripts of the school.

Her jubilee was celebrated in the Institute in 2013.[1] She retired in 2014.

Vorobyova-Desyatovskaya died on 13 June 2021 at the age of 88.[2]

Academics

Vorobyova-Desyatovskaya focussed on Buddhist manuscripts as well as documents in Sanskrit, Khotanese and Scythian languages from East Turkestan, which were brought to Russia by 19th century expeditioners such as

Mikhail Mikhailovich Berezovsky and Pyotr Kozlov. Manuscripts were also obtained from Khara-Khoto and Dunhuang
. These formed the basis for the large collection of Central Asian manuscripts in the Institute of Oriental Studies.

Vorobyova-Desyatovskaya published inscriptions from the

Turfan.[4] She also published the Bairam-Ali manuscripts from the Merv oasis, a collection of Jataka-type tales in the Brahmi script dated to between the 2nd and 5th centuries AD.[5]

Selected works

Monographs

Articles

  • "The prospects of the Lotus Sutra's study in context of the history of Buddhist philosophical thought". Proceedings of the 37th International Congress of Orientalists. 2004.
  • "Становление индологии в России". История отечественного востоковедения (до середины 19 века). Moscow: Nauka. 1990.
  • Y.A. Petrosyan, ed. (1988). "Рукописи в культуре Индии". Рукописи в культуре народов Востока. Moscow: Nauka.

References

  1. ^ I.F. Popov (28 January 2013). "Юбилей М.И.Воробьевой-Десятовской". Institute of Oriental Studies. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
  2. ^ "Скончалась М.И.Воробьева-Десятовская" (in Russian). Institute of Oriental Studies. 15 June 2021. Retrieved 18 June 2021.
  3. ISBN 978-92-3-103211-0
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  4. ISBN 978-981-4519-32-8
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  5. ISBN 978-0-295-98308-0
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External links
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