Boris Bogoslovsky

Boris Basil Bogoslovsky (Russian: Борис Васильевич Богословский; 29 April 1890 – 2 December 1966) was a Russian-American teacher and United Nations official.[1]

Bogoslovsky was born in Ryazan, Russian Empire. In 1920, he immigrated to the United States, where he became a naturalized citizen.[2] He married a Swedish teacher, Christina Staël von Holstein, and the pair taught at the Cherry Lawn School, a progressive boarding school in Darien, Connecticut. In 1933, they became co-directors of the school. Bogoslovsky taught science there until 1945, when he joined the United Nations as a translator in the UN's Russian Language Section.[2] He was also an observer and translator for the U.S. government at the Nuremberg Trials.[3][4]

He died in 1966 in Charleston, Illinois.[1]

  1. ^ a b "Boris B. Bogoslovsky". Journal Gazette. Mattoon, Illinois. 2 December 1966. p. 3. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
  2. ^ a b Christian E. Burckel, ed., Who's Who in the United Nations, 1951
  3. ^ Cherry Lawn School History
  4. ^ J. E. Bunting, Private independent schools: The American private schools for girls and boys, 1972, p.78