TREVER, Kamilla Vasil’evna. St.Petersburg 13.(25.)1.1892 — Leningrad 13.11.1974. Russian Archaeologist and Iranian Scholar. Daughter of a Baltic German worker and his wife, née Ehrenstreit, educated at German school in St.Petersburg. Graduated 1913 from Women’s Faculty, St.Petersburg. Kand. ist. nauk 1938, Dr. 1939. In 1913-18 taught in women’s courses and in 1926-31 and 1948 at Leningrad University, chair of Iranistics. In 1913-18 also worked in Archaeological Commission, then naučnyj sotrudnik in Hermitage in 1921-28, at Academy of History and Material Culture, at Archaeological Institute from 1919, at Uzbek Filial AN 1941-43 and Armenian AN 1943-45. From 1943 Corresponding Member of Russian Academy.
Publications: At least 80 publications, e.g.:
– Excavations in Northern Mongolia. 74 p. Leningrad 1932.
– Terracottas from Afrasiab. 52 p. 14 pl. M.–Lg. 1934; Novye sasanidskie bljuda Èrmitaža. 41 p. M.–Lg. 1937; Sènmurv – Paskudž. Sobaka – ptica. 73 p. Lg. 1937.
– With I. A. Orbeli: Sasanidskij metall. Hudožestvennye predmety iz zolota, serebra i bronzy. 47 p. 85 pl. M.–Lg. 1935; Šatrang. Kniga o šahmatah. 196 p. Lg. 1936.
– Pamjatniki greko-baktrijskogo iskusstva. 178 p. M.–Lg. 1940.
– Očerki po istorii kul’tury dervnej Armenii (II v. do n.è. – IV b. n. è.). 288 p. M.–Lg. 1953; Očerki po istorii i kul’ture Kavkazskoj Albanii IV b. do n. è. – VII v. n. è. 391 p. M.–Lg. 1959.
Sources: Miliband 1977, 1995; Wikipedia with photo (more in German and especially in Russian version).
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