* Elisabeth Stenbock-Fermor; Language Teacher
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Elisabeth Stenbock-Fermor, 101, who taught Slavic languages and literature at Stanford University. Born in Odessa, Ukraine, then part of Russia, she fled with her family to France during the Bolshevik Revolution. She married a fellow Russian, Count Ivan Stenbock-Fermor, in Paris and moved with him to the United States in 1946. After earning a doctorate at Harvard, she taught Russian at Smith, Harvard, Wellesley and Mount Holyoke College, where she was acting head of the Russian Department. In California, she taught at the Army Language School, now the Defense Language Institute, in Monterey as well as at Stanford. On Monday in Palo Alto.
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