Darya S. Moskovskaya

Moskovskaya

DSc in Philology, 

Director of Research,

Head of the Manuscripts Department,

Deputy Director of IWL RAS

Education:

Graduated from the Philology Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1981

PhD thesis:

Post Avant Garde in Russian Fiction of the 1920s–1930s (Genesis,  Poetics) (1993)

DSc (Habil.) thesis:

Regional-Historical Approach in Nikolay Antsyferov’s Literary Studies and in Russian Literature, 1920s – 1930s (Interrelation of Regional Studies and Literature) (2011)

Research interests:

Sociology of the literary process, institutional history of Soviet literature, history of literary organizations and associations, source studies of Russian Soviet literature, theory of literature and philological methodology, textual criticism, achive studies, academic editorship.

Professional Service: 

  • Editor-in-Chief of the serial scientific edition Codex manuscriptus
  • Member of the Expert Council on Philology and Art History, Higher Attestation Commission of the Russian Federation
  • Member of Dissertation Councils of the Philology Department, Moscow State Pedagogical University
  • Member of Dissertation Council on Russian Literature and Literary Theory, IWL RAS
  • Curator of scientific activities of the departments of IWL RAS - theory of literature, old Slavic literatures, Russian classical literature, the latest Russian literature and literature of the Russian abroad, study and publication of A.M. Gorky, A.M. Gorky’s Archive, Museum of A.M. Gorky, department of manuscripts
  • A member of the editorial boards of the academic series Literary Heritage and Folklore Heritage, a member of the editorial board of the journal Studia Litterarum (WoS, Scopus, Higher Attestation Commission), Philological Disciplines. Reports of the Higher School (WoS, Higher Attestation Commission), Literary Fact (Scopus, Higher Attestation Commission), member of the editorial boards of academic collections of works by A.M. Gorky, A.P. Platonov, I.E. Babel, A.N. Tolstoy, Encyclopedia of Literary Museums.
  • Head of the projects supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Research and Russian Science Foundation:

1) Funding for Soviet Culture (1917–1941) (RFBR no. 18-52-15031; PRC1836);

2) Nobel Prize Winners Boris Pasternak (1958) and Mikhail Sholokhov (1965) in European Cross-cultural Communication. New Materials on the History of Russian Literature of 1930s–1960s (RFBR no. 20-012-00539);

3) “Transcript”: Politics and Literature. The Digital Archive of Literary Organizations of the 1920s–1930s (RSF no. 20-18-00394).

Awards and distinctions: 

  • Commendation of the President of the Russian Federation “For merits in academic activity and many years of conscientious work”, no. 032078 (2022)
  • Gratitude from the State Secretary of the Union State of Russia and Belarus for active participation in holding events to develop the common information space of the Union State (2021)
  • Awarded the Certificate of Honor of the Federal Archival Agency “For many years of conscientious work, active participation in ensuring the preservation, acquisition and organization of the use of the Archival Fund of the Russian Federation” (2019)

Teaching Activity:

Supervising postgraduate students of the Manuscripts Department of IWL RAS

 

Academic publications — over 200 publications, including 17 monographs.

Selected publications

Monographs

  • Nikolai Antsyferov. “Such Is Our Life in Letters”: Letters to Family and Friends (1910s–1950s), ed., comp. and with introduction by Daria S. Moskovskaya. Moscow,  Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie Publ., 2021. 632 p.
  • P. Antsyferov and Local Scenes Writing in Russian Literature, 1920s–1830s.: On the History of Interrelation of Regional Studies and Literature. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2010. In Russ.

Edited works

  • “Serving a Common Cause…”: “Literary Heritage” in Memoirs and Correspondence of I.S. Silberstein and S.A. Makashin. Comp. by A.Yu. Galushkin, M.A. Frolov, introd. by D.S. Moskovskaya, ex. ed. M.L. Spivak. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2022. 544 р. (Literary Heritage Library. Iss. 8) https://doi.org/10.22455/LHL-2712-9020-2022-8.
  • Zolotaryov А.А. Campo Santo of my Memory: Memoir. Fiction. Poems. Essays. Philosophical Works. Opinions of Contemporaries, ed. by D.S. Moskovskaya, introd. by D.S. Moskovskaya and V.E. Halizev. St. Petersburg, ROSTOK Publ., 2016. In Russ.
  • Antsyferov N.P. Problems of Urbanism in Russian Fictional Literature. Modelling the Image of the City —  Dostoevsky’s Petersburg —  on the Analysis of Literary Traditions, ed. by D.S. Moskovskaya. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2009. In Russ.

Selected essays

  • “New Literature Does Not Emerge Like a Pistol Shot in the Night.” On the Institutional Boundaries of the First Soviet Mass Writers’ Associations. eSamizdat. Rivista di culture dei paesi slavi /Journal of Slavic Cultures, 2024, no. 17, pp. 29–74. (with Vagif Guseinov)
  • “Saratov Association of Proletarian Writers: Materials on the History of Regional Associations).” Сodex manuscriptus. Issue 5: Aesthetics of Communism: Theories and Literary Practices, ed.-in-chief D.S. Moskovskaia, ex. ed. R.E. Klement'ev. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2024, pp. 387–416 (with O.V. Bystrova, A.V. Khrustaleva). https://doi.org/10.22455/CM.2949-0510-2024-5
  • In the Struggle for Proletarian Literature: Financial and Political Components. Сodex manuscriptus. Issue 5: Aesthetics of Communism: Theories and Literary Practices, ed.-in-chief D.S. Moskovskaia, ex. ed. R.E. Klement'ev. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2024, pp. 223–227 (with E.D. Gal'tsova). https://doi.org/10.22455/CM.2949-0510-2024-5
  • The Organizing Committee of the USSR Writers' Union: the First Successful Experience of Uniting Writers. A.N. Yar-Kravchenko, A.P. Zarubin. “The responsibility is on you!”: the Story of one Painting. Reconstruction Experience. Documents, Memoirs, Research, comp. D.V. Kaverina, A.Ia. Nevskii, O.A. Starikova; ex. ed. D.P. Bak. Moscow, V.I. Dahl State Museum of the History of Russian Literature Publ., 2024, pp. 116–135.
  • Comment imposer une littérature prolétarienne? // Argent et culture en Union soviétique (1917–1941). Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2024, pp. 105–129 (with E.D. Gal'tsova)
  • From the Union of Soviet Republics to the Union of Soviet Writers. The organizational aspect of literary production in the 1920s and 1930s. Socialist Realism: Pro et Contra. Vol. 1: Socialist Realism in Literature, comp. O.V. Bogdanova, D.M. Tsyganov, introd. by D.M. Tsyganov. Saint Petersburg, Russian Christian Humanitarian Academy Publ., 2024, pp. 172–200.
  • The Slogan of “Odemyanivanie” as a Program for the Development of Proletarian Writing. Vestnik slavianskikh kul'tur, vol. 72, 2024, pp. 167–176 (with O.V. Romanova)
  • Literary Circles as a Means of Forming Proletarian Culture. 1920–1923 (Based on Documents of Manuscript Department of IWL RAS). Vestnik slavianskikh kul’tur, vol. 61, 2021, pp. 189–198 (with O.V. Romanova). https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2021-61-189-198

Scopus / Web of Science Publications

  • “Without a Deity, Without Inspiration” or How RAPP Found a Job in FOSP. Slavic Literatures, 2024, June–August, vol. 146–148, pp. 81–119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.slalit.2024.05.005
  • “To Brew a Prefabricated Medley of the Wreckage of All Groups”: The Russian Association of Proletarian Writers in the Federation of Associations of Soviet Writers.” Izvestiia RAN. Seriia literatury i iazyka / Studies in Literature and Language, 2024, vol. 83, no. 3, pp. 7–18. https://doi.org/10.31857/S1605788024030014
  • The Unpublished “Transport Collection” of the Moscow Association of Proletarian Writers as a Fact of Soviet Literature (Based on Archival Materials of the Department of Manuscripts of A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature). Vestnik Moskovskogo universiteta: Seriia 9. Filologiia, 2024, no. 4, pp. 185–200 (with N.Iu. Bakshaeva).
  • The Association of Proletarian Writers in Saratov as a Provincial Episode in the History of the VAPP. Izvestiia RAN. Seriia iazyka i literatury, 2024, no. 5, pp. 17–30 (with A.V. Khrustaleva).
  • Mass Character and “Massovization” in the Early Soviet Literary Process. Studia Litterarum, vol. 7, no. 4, 2022, pp. 10–33 (with N.Y. Bakshaeva, O.V. Romanova). https://doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-4-10-33.
  • M.A. Sholokhov in English-Language Cross-cultural Communication: On the History of Translation of the Novel “The Quiet Donˮ. Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka, vol. 81, no. 6, 2022, pp. 26–33.
  • “‘Literary Heritage’ Has Been Such a Big Deal for All These Years...” The 90th Anniversary of the Academic Series “Literary Heritage”. Vestnik Rossiiskoi akademii nauk, vol. 92, no. 2, 2022, pp. 118–124 (with A.B. Kudelin, M.N. Spivak). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331622010105
  • Proletarian Literature as a Project. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, no. 5, 2021, pp. 80–93.
  • On the History of the Academic Series “Literary Heritage” (for the 90th Anniversary). Studia Litterarum, vol. 6, no. 4, 2021, pp. 446–465. https://doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2021-6-4-446-465.
  • Federation of Associations of Soviet Writers as a Model of the Literary Process of 1926–1932 — Organizational, Financial, Ideological and Aesthetic Components (Based on Archived Primary Sources from the Department of Manuscripts, IWL RAS). Filologicheskie nauki. Nauchnye doklady vysshei shkoly, no. 6, 2020, pp. 135–146. https://doi.org/10.20339/PhS.6-20.135
  • FOSP’S “Publishing Passion”: on the Materials Held in the Department of Manuscripts of IWL RAS. Studia Litterarum, vol. 5, no. 4, 2020, pp. 394–419 (with E.D. Gal’tsova). https://doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2020-5-4-394-419
  • “Proletarian Literature as a Project.” Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, no. 5, 2021, pp. 80–93. In Russ.
  • “Literary Circles as a Means of Forming Proletarian Culture. 1920–1923 (Based on Documents of Manuscript Department of IWL RAS).” Vestnik slavianskikh kul’tur, vol. 61, 2021, pp. 189–198. (Co-authored with O.V. Romanova). DOI: 10.37816/2073-9567-2021-61-189-198. In Russ.
  • “On the History of the Academic Series ‛Literary Heritage’ (for the 90th Anniversary).” Studia Litterarum, vol. 6, no. 4, 2021, pp. 446–465. DOI: 10.22455/2500-4247-2021-6-4-446-465. In Russ.
  • “Federation of Associations of Soviet Writers as a Model of the Literary Process of 1926–1932 — Organizational, Financial, Ideological and Aesthetic Components (Based on Archived Primary Sources from the Department of Manuscripts, IWL RAS).” Filologicheskie nauki. Nauchnye doklady vysshei shkoly, no. 6, 2020, pp. 135–146. DOI: 10.20339/PhS.6-20.135. In Russ.
  • “FOSP’S ‛Publishing Passion’: on the Materials Held in the Department of Manuscripts of IWL RAS.” Studia Litterarum, vol. 5, no. 4, 2020, pp. 394–419. (Co-authored with E.D. Galtsova). DOI: 10.22455/2500-4247-2020-5-4-394-419. In Russ.
  • “On the Project of Institutional History of Soviet Literature (1920–1930 Years).” Filologicheskie nauki. Doklady vysshei shkoly, no. 5. 2019, pp. 56–61. DOI: 10.20339/PhS.5-19.056. In Russ.
  • “Andrey Platonov and Literary Institutions. On the Question of Commenting on the Works of the Socialist Reconstruction Era.” Studia Litterarum, vol. 4, no. 4, 2019, pp. 232–251. DOI: 10.22455/2500-4247-2019-4-4-232-251. In Russ.
  • “From the History of 20th-century Literary Politics. ‛Literary Heritage’ [literaturnoe nasledstvo] as an Academic Institution.” Voprosy literatury, no. 1, 2018, pp. 296–333. DOI: 10.31425/0042-8795-2018-1-296-333. In Russ.
  • “Unknown Poem by Alexander Vvedensky ‛Satire on the Married’. To the History of the Topic.” Novyi filologicheskii vestnik, no. 3 (46), 2018, pp. 162–173. DOI: 10.24411/2072-9316-2018-00047. In Russ.
  • “Shakespeare and the Fight for Promfinplan, or How High Voltage is Made.” Studia Litterarum, 2017, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 220–235. DOI: 10.22455/2500-4247-2017-2-3-220-235. In Russ.