title: Field Notes
abstract: We learned recently of the death in December of Gennady (Gennadii Petrovich) Kuropiatnik (1924Kuropiatnik ( -2019) ) one of the Russian Academy's pre-eminent scholars in American history and the history of Russian-American relations of the 19 th century. He was a close friend and supporter of his younger colleague, Nikolai Bolkhovitinov (1930Bolkhovitinov ( -2008) ) in leading the Center of North American Studies of the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences through glasno
journal: Journal of Russian American Studies