VMs: Andrei Mogutov

[Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>]

	Antoine Casanova, in his doctoral thesis on the VMs,
lists M. <sic> Andrei Mogutov of the University of St.
Petersburg as a contributor.  I've asked Antoine and
others privately about this from time to time, but
received no answers.  There are several Universities of
St. Petersburg, so I don't know where to go from there.
Does anyone here know of his whereabouts, and how to
contact him?  

	I've wondered from time to time whether there are any
Voynich Manuscript students in the former Soviet Union
that we don't know about.  The fame of his wife might
have had an effect.  The work of John Stojko has been
published in Ukraine.  Finally.  One fine night in
1950, Joseph Stalin, in His infinite wisdom, decided
that language has nothing to do with politics.  (For a
fictional depiction of this event, read the chapter
"Language is a Tool of Production" in Solzhenitsyn's
*The First Circle*.)  He subsequently published an
article in Pravda to this effect.  Consequently,
Russian linguistics was left relatively alone by the
commissars and became pretty good.   Who knows?

Dennis
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