age of 96 years, and honoring her request, her family members scattered her ashes in the Ganges in India. Works Guseva published around 200 articles in various scientific journals and wrote 16 monographs. She translated Indological literature from the English language to the Russian language. She wrote a play titled "Ramayana" that was based on the ancient Indian epic of the same name, which was performed at various theaters in Russia, and one of the performances was attended by Jawaharlal Nehru. In 2000, she translated the book "The Arctic Home in the Vedas" written by Bal Gangadhar Tilak in 1903. The Government of India gave her the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for her contributions towards the development of Russia–India relations. Books Books edited Selected papers See also Mikhail Konstantinovich Kudryavtsev Notes References 1914 births Russian ethnographers 21st-century Russian historians Soviet women historians Russian Indologists 2010 deaths Pseudohistorians Soviet ethnographers