JOHN P. GLAD

  
JOHN P. GLAD  
Today is 40 days since John P. Glad passed away on December 4, 2015 due to complications from Parkinson''s disease. A distinguished scholar and retired University of Maryland Professor of Russian Language and Literature he authored and translated many books including two volumes of Varlam Shalamov''s Gulag stories. One of them Kolyma Tales was nominated in 1981 for the best translation of the year by the American Book Awards. John was born in Gary, Indiana on December 31, 1941, the second child of John and Catherine Glad. He graduated with honors from Indiana University as well as New York University.  As an exchange graduate student in Moscow in 1968 he met his future wife Larisa Romanov who was allowed to leave the USSR after a long struggle only in 1978. In 1983 as Director of The Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies he was the first to predict the break-up of the Soviet Union. He is survived by his wife Larisa R. Glad, as well as their two sons Michael Romanov and Aaron Glad Pearce; two grandsons Nikolai and Alexander Romanov; and two sisters Diana Glad and Donna Glad Blythe. We will remember John forever and will celebrate his outstanding life in April (he disliked cold weather.) Family and friends will be notified in advance.