Nicholas P. Vakar (26 or 27 May 1894 in Tulchyn, Ukraine, then in Russian Empire – 1970), Belarusian, author of Belorussia: The Making of a Nation. Harvard U. Press. 1956[1] and The Taproot of Soviet Society. Harper. 1959. A Word Count of Spoken Russian. OSU Press, 1966.
He was professor of Russian, Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts, from about 1946 to 1962, followed by 3 years at Ohio State University.
Vakar left to France as a result of events during the Russian Civil War. He was married in 1926 to Gertrude Vakar, the translator. They had two daughters, Catherine in 1927 and Anna in 1929; both girls have escaped from France to the United States in 1940.[2] Nicholas and Gertrude arrived in the United States in 1942.[3] The latter is well-known Canadian haiku poet residing in Oliver, British Columbia.[4]
^Vakar, Nicholas Platonovich (1956). Belorussia: the Making of a Nation: A Case Study. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-43664-0.
^War Refugees Honor Their Deliverer, The New York Times, December 10, 1990.
^article containing reflections from a member of the family that houses Vakar's daughters when they first arrived in the US
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