DSc in Philology,
Leading Researcher of the Department of Russian Literature of the late XIX — early XX century,
Head of the Department of "Literary Heritage" of IWL RAS.
Education:
Graduated from the Philological Faculty of Perm State University (1982)
PhD thesis:
Tragic and comic in Dostoevsky's novels ("Demons", "Brothers Karamazov") (1986)
DSc (Habil.) thesis:
Andrei Bely's Journalism in the Biographical and Historical-cultural Context (1916–1934) (2012)
Research interests:
The history of Russian literature and culture of the late XIX — first third of the XX century; Andrey Bely, his entourage and epoch
Professional Service:
Responsible editor of the academic series "Literary Heritage"
Head of the Memorial Apartment of Andrei Bely (branch of the State Pushkin Museum)
Chairman of the Commission on Andrei Bely at the Scientific Council "History of World Culture" of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Academic publications — over 200 publications, including 4 monographs.
Selected publications
Monographs
- Andrey Bely: between Myth and Fate. Moscow, Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie Publ., 2023. 848 p. In Russ.
- Andrey Bely is a Mystic and a Soviet Writer, 2nd ed., add. Moscow, RSUH Publ., 2020. 610 p. In Russ.
- "Send the brain to...": Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Andrei Bely, Eduard Bagritsky in the Collection of the Moscow Brain Institute, 2nd ed., additional Moscow, Astrel Publ.; Corpus Publ., 2010. 606 p. In Russ.
- Postmortem Diagnosis of Genius. Andrey Bely. Eduard Bagritsky, Vladimir Mayakovsky in the Collection of the Brain Institute (Materials from the Archive of G.I. Polyakov). Moscow, Agraf Publ., 2001. 493 p. In Russ.
Books (editor, editor-compiler)
- Bely A. "All Thoughts for Publication are Locked up": Diaries of the 1930s. Moscow, Common Place Publ., 2021. 413 p. In Russ.
- "I Believed in the Golden Luster...": Books, Manuscripts, Pictorial Materials from the Collection of the Memorial Apartment of Andrei Bely: to the 140th Anniversary of the Birth of Andrei Bely (1880–1934). Moscow, Gosudarstvennyj muzej A.S. Pushkina Publ., 2020. 254 p. In Russ.
- A Novel in Letters: Materials from the Archive of the Goetheanum (Dornach). Moscow, Ruthenia Publ., 2020. 383 p. In Russ.
- Bely A. The History of the Formation of a Self-conscious Soul: in 2 books. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2020. In Russ.
- Symbolism and Poetics of Space in the Works of Andrei Bely: Collection of Art. St. Petersburg, Nestor-Istoriia Publ., 2020. 323 p. In Russ.
- Epistolary Legacy of Z.N. Gippius: in 2 books, Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2018.
- Andrey Bely's Arabesques: Life Path: Spiritual Quest: Poetics. Belgrade; Moscow, Publishing House of the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade, 2017. 718 p.
- Literary Life. Articles. Publications. Memoirs. In Memory of Galushkin. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2017. 400 p. In Russ.
- Andrey Bely: Autobiography and Biographical Practices. Moscow, Nestor-Istoriia Publ., 2015. 317 p. In Russ.
Selected Essays
- “‘Literary Heritage’ has been such a Big Deal for all these Years...’ to the 90th Anniversary of the Academic Series ‘Literary Heritage’.” Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences, vol. 92, no. 2, 2022, pp. 118–124. In Russ.
- “Chekhov — Grossman — Andrey Bely. To the Staging of the ‘Case’ by A.V. Sukhovo-Kobylin in the Moscow Art Theater-2 (1927).” Teachers, students, colleagues.... Collection of articles dedicated to the 60th Anniversary of Dmitry Petrovich Bak. Moscow, RSUH Publ., 2021. pp. 278–286. In Russ.
- “P.P. Pertsov in Search of an Interlocutor: an Epistolary Dialogue with Andrei Bely in the Late 1920s.” Russian Modernism and its Legacy. Collective Monograph in Honor of the 70th Anniversary of N.A. Bogomolov. Moscow, Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie Publ., 2021. pp. 481–508. In Russ.
- “The ‘Christology’ of Bely the Anthroposophist: Andrey Bely, Rudolf Steiner, and the Apostle Paul.” Religions, vol. 12, no. 7, 2021, pp. 506–519.
- “The Arabic Topos in the ‘History of the Formation of a Self-conscious Soul’ by Andrei Bely.” Symbolism and Poetics of Space in the Works of Andrei Bely. Collection of Articles. St. Petersburg, Nestor-Istoriia Publ., 2020, pp. 310–321. In Russ.
Scopus / Web of Science Publications
- “A.A. Blok's 1921 Notes on ‘Alkonost’ and ‘the Closure of all Private Publishing Houses’: the Vagaries of Textual Psychology, Context, Pragmatics.” Russkaia literatura, no. 2, 2022. pp. 197–216. In Russ.
- “Russian Newspaper Strategies and Practices of the First Half of the Twentieth Century: Between Politics and Literature.” Russian Literature, vol. 120–121, 2021, pp. 1–21. In Russ.
- “Andrej Belyi and P. Pertsov in 1928: the Introduction to the History of the Formation of a Self-conscious Soul.” Zbornik Matice srpske za slavistiku, no. 98, 2021. pp. 177–187.
- “Four Titles of one Lecture Course, or about the Unexpected Discovery of the Pretext of the ‘History of the Formation of a Self-conscious Soul’ by Andrei Bely.” Zbornik Matice srpske za slavistiku, no. 96. 2019, pp. 23–48.
- “The Diary Legacy of Andrei Bely (1896-1933)." Studia Litterarum, vol. 4, no. 4, 2019, pp. 138–165. In Russ.
- “‘We Really Will be in Different Camps’: about the Poetic and Political Differences between Andrei Bely and Ivanov-Razumnik.” Russian Literature, vol. 92, 2017, pp. 15–47.