Tatiana Fessenko, a cataloger in the Slavic Languages Section in the former Descriptive Cataloging Division of the Library of Congress from 1951 to 1963, died July 12, 1995. She was 79.
Ms. Fessenko was born Nov. 20, 1915, in Kiev, Russia. She attended the University of Kiev, where she received a bachelor's degree in 1936 and a Ph.D in 1941.
She married Andrew V. Fessenko Sept. 1, 1941, shortly after the German invasion of the Soviet Union. They emigrated to the United States in 1950 and joined the staff of the Library of Congress.
Ms. Fessenko compiled Eighteenth Century Russian Books in the Library of Congress, published by the Slavic and Central European Division (now the European Division) in 1961. The catalog of 1,316 items, many of them rare or very rare, included nearly 100 translations previously listed as anonymous.
Funeral services were held in the National Cathedral of the Orthodox Church in America in Washington, D.C. Ms. Fessenko is survived by her husband; a godson, Leo Dudin; and a goddaughter, Ella Stolpe.
