Natalia A. Prozorova

PhD in Philology

Education:
Leningrad State University, Faculty of Philology (1982)

PhD thesis:
O.F. Bergholtz’s Documentary and Memoir Prose: Paradigms of Creative Personality Formation (1920s) (2013)

Research interests:
History and poetics of the 20^th-century Russian literature, the Siege of Leningrad narrative, poetics of the diary genre, history of philological science and Pushkin House, Russian theater, archival research

Grant and projects:
RHSF projects No. 00-04-00177a and 02-04-16079a (performer); No. 18-112-00061 (performer); No. 05-04-16129 (d) (performer); No. 14-34-1226 (performer); No. 15-04-00268 (performer); Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Publishing project No. 18-112-00025 (supervisor), etc.
Projects: Head of the Center for the Study of the Literary Heritage of the Soviet Era (since 2016) and editor-compiler of the “Literary Archive of the Soviet Era”. Participant of the film projects “Monologues of the Pushkin House” (author of the series about N.V. Izmailov (2001)), “The Great Grind or the Academic Case” (series 1-4; 2012; dir. by B.A. Kurkova); literary consultant of the documentary film “A Woman of Leningrad”; dir. by L.E. Shakht; Lennauchfilm (1–3 series; 2011–2015) and many others. For her participation in the publishing and cinematographic project “‘I Will Live to Old Age, to Glory...’: Boris Kornilov”, she was awarded the Boris Kornilov Independent Literary Award “To Meet the Day!” (2013).
Archival work: involved in scientific and technical processing of archival materials (“Pushkin Lyceum Society”, “M.V. Nikiforovsky”, “M.V. Matyushin”, “V.A. Ryshkov”) and acquisition of funds of the Manuscript Department; led the column “New arrivals” in the “Yearbook of the Manuscript Department of the Pushkin House” (starting with the Yearbook for 1993 to the Yearbook for 2009–2010); member of the Expert Commission of the Department.
Organizer of the permanent seminar “Russian Literature in the Soviet Era”.

Academic publications (124 in total, including 1 monograph)

Monographs:

Olga Bergholtz. The Beginning (According to Early Diaries). St. Petersburg: Rostock, 2014. 288 p.

Collective works (editor):

Literary Archive of the Soviet Era: Collection of Articles and Publ. Book 4, ed. by N.A. Prozorova. St. Petersburg: ART BOOK Publ., 2024. 608 p.
Literary Archive of the Soviet Era: Collection of Articles and Publ. Book 3. ed. and comp. by N.A. Prozorova. St. Petersburg, Polygraph Publ., 2022. 656 p.

Articles:

The Poetics of the Way in O.F. Bergholtz’s “Day Stars”: The Biblical Subtext. Problems of Historical Poetics, vol. 24, no. 1, 2026, pp. 254–273. https://doi.org/10.15393/j9.art.2026.16425.
“Avvakum Firmness”: Commentary on the Texts of O.F. Bergholtz. Proceedings of the Department of Old Russian Literature, vol. 72. St. Petersburg, Russian Academy of Sciences; Pushkinskii Dom Publ., 2025, pp. 127–135. https://doi.org/10.31860/0130-464Х-2025-72-127-135
Diaries of Residents of Besieged Leningrad: An Analytical Reading and Problems of Editorship. Proceedings of the Department of Historical and Philological Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, vol. 14. Мoscow, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2025, pp. 111–126.
On the History of the Poem “Zoo at night” by B. Slutsky. Yearbook of the Manuscript Department of the Pushkin House for 2025. St. Petersburg, Rostok Publ., 2025, pp. 98–110. https://doi.org/10.31860/978-5-94668-439-2-98-110
“Fidelity,” a Tragedy by O. F. Bergholz: the Concept and the Genre. The Problems of Historical Poetics, vol. 23, no. 2, 2025, pp. 261–280.. https://doi.org/10.15393/j9.art.2025.15162
Biblical Mythopoetics in the Screenplay “The First Russians” by O.F. Bergholz. The Problems of Historical Poetics, vol. 23, no. 1, 2025, pp. 251–271. https://doi.org/10.15393/j9.art.2025.14702
“Knot”, the Book of Poems by O.F. Bergholz as an Artistic Whole: Poetics of the Title, Composition, and Meta-Plot. The Problems of Historical Poetics, vol. 22, no. 4, 2024, pp. 273–294. https://doi.org/10.15393/j9.art.2024.14343
“From the Letters from the Road” by O. F. Bergholtz: The History of the Text and the Problem of the Cycle. Siberian Journal of Philology, no. 1, 2024, pp. 148–163. https://doi.org/10.17223/18137083/86/11
Sound Images in Poetics by O.F. Bergholz. The Problems of Historical Poetics, vol. 22, no. 2, 2024, pp. 187–206. https://doi.org/10.153931j9.art.2024.13802
O.F. Bergholz and the “Averbach Case”: Letters to Sister, introductory article, preparation, text and commentary by N.A. Prozorova. Literary Archive of the Soviet Era: Collection of Articles and Publ. St. Petersburg: ARTBOOK Publ., 2024. Book 4, pp. 387–450.
Semantics of Silence in Poetics of O. F. Bergholz. The Problems of Historical Poetics, vol. 21, no. 3, 2023, pp. 208–227. https://doi.org/10.15393/j9.art.2023.12682
Olga Bergholz in the Literary Field: Path to the Legitimation of Status. Vestnik slavianskikh kultur, vol. 69, 2023, ppp. 312–325. https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2023-69-312-325
To the Biography of O.F. Bergholts: A Letter from Ya.L. Babushkin to G.M. Friedlander (1941), introductory article, preparation, text and commentary by N.A. Prozorova. Yearbook of the Manuscript Department of the Pushkin House for 2023. St. Petersburg, Polygraf Publ., 2023, pp. 459–473. https://doi.org/10.31860/978-5-918680-384-459-473
Literary salon and “Album” by L.M. Popova, introductory article, preparation, text and commentary by N.A. Prozorova, Literary Archive of the Soviet Era: Collection of Articles and Publ. St. Petersburg, Polygraph Publ., 2022. Book 3, pp. 135–294. https://doi.org/10.31860/978-5-91868-030-8-135-294
The Status of the Double Epigraph to the Poem “Your Way” by O.F. Bergholz. The Problems of Historical Poetics, vol. 20, no. 3, 2022, pp. 213–231. https://doi.org/10.15393/j9.art.2022.11162
The Poetological Statements of Olga Bergholz: Reflection and Author's Strategy. The Problems of Historical Poetics, vol. 19, no. 2, 2021, pp. 353–372. https://doi.org/10.15393/j9.art.2021.8482
Uglich as a Place of Memory in Olga Bergholz's Creative Vision. Vestnik slavianskikh kul'tur, vol. 61, 2021, pp. 199–212. https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2021-61-199-212
Female Images and Trauma Visualization in the Blockade Text of Olga Bergholz. Siberian Journal of Philology, no. 4, 2021, pp. 110–123. https://doi.org/10/17223/18137083/77/9