Andrei B. Shishkin

Professor

Research interests:
Emigration, Russian Catholicism, portrait theory, sonnet, Russian-Italian relations, problems of textual criticism, symbolism, Vyacheslav I. Ivanov and his entourage

Professional service:
In 2004-2019, Andrei Shishkin was a member of the interuniversity project “Russians in Italy”, see the website created as a result of the project.: www.russinitalia
Projects based on the Vyacheslav Ivanov’s archive in Rome, creating a website “www.v-ivanov.it”
Member of the editorial board of “Europa Orientalis” (Rome), “Masterskaya” (Pisa)
Teaching activity: Professor of Slavic Studies at the University of Salerno in 1998–2024

Academic publications

Articles:

A.N. Benois on A.Ya. Beloborodov's Cycle “The Big Island.” Rifrazioni: Scritti in onore di D. Rizzi. Salerno, 2025, pp. 69–74. (“Collana di Europa Orientalis” series, no. 39)
Architect-Artist Andrey Beloborodov and His Roman Cycle About the Death of the City. Art Without a Manifesto. Materials of Academic Conference. Moscow, Tretyakov Gallery Publ., 2025, pp. 121–127.
Cronaca della vita e delle opere di Vjačeslav Ivanov (1866–1949). V. Ivanov. Viaggiando tra le stelle. Saggi sulla teoria del simbolo, sulla letteratura e sulla modernità (1904–1947). Brescia, Morcelliana, 2025, pp. 365–412.
Gorky's Meetings and Projects in the Kaprian Period: Two Letters to Ekaterina Alekseevna Botkina (1908). Correnti d’incontro tra Russia ed Europa, vol. 2, 2024, pp. 251–270.
Extraits de la correspondance de Pierre Pascal avec ses amis romains. Revue des études slaves, vol. 95, 2024, fasc. 4, pp. 543–563.
About Some Slavonisms in “The Brothers Karamazov.” F.M. Dostoevsky: Humor, Paradox, Dismantling. Firenze, Firenze University Press, 2023, pp. 185–194.
Рим Вячеслава Иванова. Сонеты Вячеслава Иванова в русской и европейской традиции // Вяч. Иванов. Ave Roma. Римские сонеты. СПб.: Vita Nova, 2023. С. 63–78.
The Plan for a Soviet Academy in Rome (1924): Viacheslav Ivanov, Anatoly Lunacharsky, Petr Kogan and Others. Literaturnyi fakt, no. 1 (23), 2022, pp. 55–99.
Somov and Vyacheslav Ivanov's “Tower”: Portrait — Terza rima — Frontispiece. Vyach. Ivanov: The Enigma of Modernism. Jerusalem, Hebrew University in Jerusalem; Moscow, Vodolei Publ., 2021, pp. 377–412.
“Merry Craft” on the Tower and “the Holy Pages of the Roman Emigrant Chronicle.” Space of Boundless Literature. St. Petersburg, Nestor-Istoriya Publ., 2021, pp. 476–500.
Vyacheslav Ivanov and Dostoevsky's Discovery in the 20th Century. Vyacheslav Ivanov: Tragedy — Myth — Mysticism. St. Petersburg, 2021, pp. 266–281.
Dostoevsky in the Life and Thoughts of V.I. Ivanov (1883–1949): A Chronicle. Vyacheslav Ivanov: Tragedy — Myth — Mysticism. St. Petersburg, 2021, pp. 233–265.
Il simposio di Platone in tempo di peste. A. Puškin. Il banchetto al tempo della peste, а cura di A. Chichkine, L. Salmon. Brescia: Morcelliana, 2021. P. 5–41.
Le “Visioni della Vecchia Russia” di Leonid Brailovskij a Roma. Leonid e Rimma Brailovskij. Visioni della Vecchia Russia. Città del Vaticano; Roma, pp. LVI–LXIII.
Vyacheslav Ivanov. Two Poems Dedicated to Evgenia Davydovna Ern-Vekilova (1916). Russian Modernism and Its Legacy. Moscow, 2021.
Lidia Ivanova in Letters to Her Father (1927). Russian-Italian Archive, vol. 11. Salerno, 2020, pp. 174–214.
“And I Need to Earn Italy's Love”: Correspondence of I. Shmelev with E. Grigorovich. Russian-Italian Archive, vol. 11, pp. 215–235.

Collective works (editor):

V. Ivanov. Viaggiando tra le stelle. Saggi sulla teoria del simbolo, sulla letteratura e sulla modernità (1904–1947). Morcelliana, Brescia, 2025. (Co-authored with M.C. Ghidini)
Correnti d’incontro tra Russia ed Europa. Vol. 2: Dagli archivi romani agli archivi pietroburghesi. Roma, Valore Italiano Editore, 2024. (Co-authored with G. Giuliano)
Vyacheslav Ivanov. Research and Materials. Issue 4. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ.; Vodolei Publ., 2024. 852 p. (Co-authored with E.A. Takho-Godi)
Vyacheslav Ivanov. Dostoevsky: Tragedy. Myth. Mystika. St. Petersburg, Pushkinskii Dom Publ., 2021. (Co-authored with О. Fetisenko)
Vyacheslav Ivanov: The Riddle of Modernism. Moscow, 2021. (Co-authored with M. Vakhtel, N. Segal-Rudnik, D. Segal, S.V. Fedotova)
Russian-Italian Archive, vol. 11. Salerno, 2020. (Co-authored with G. Giuliano)
Vyacheslav Ivanov: Research and Materials. Issue. 3. Мoscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2018. (Co-authored with S.V. Fedotova)
Historical and Trans-temporal in Vyacheslav Ivanov’s Work: On the 150^th Anniversary of Vyacheslav Ivanov. 2017. (Series of the journal “Europa Orientalis”, no. 29). (Co-authored with M. Pliukhanova)
Vyacheslav Ivanov. Research and Materials. Issue 2. St. Petersburg, Russian Christian Humanitarian Academy Publ., 2016. (Co-authored with N.Y. Gryakalova)
Russian-Italian Archive, vol. 11. Salerno, 2015. (Co-authored with D. Rizzi)
Images of Italy in Russia — St. Petersburg — Pushkin House, ed. by A.B. Shishkin. St. Petersburg, Pushkinskii Dom Publ., 2014. (Series “Russia — West — East: Literary and Cultural Relations”, vol. 2)
Vyacheslav Ivanov. Research and Materials. Issue 1. St. Petersburg, Pushkinskii Dom Publ., 2010. (Co-authored with K.Yu. Lappo-Danilevsky)
Russian-Italian Archive, vol. 8. Salerno, 2010. (Co-authored with C. Diddi)
Russian-Italian Archive, vol. 7. Salerno, 2010. (Co-authored with C. Diddi)
Vyacheslav Ivanov. Uncollected and Unpublished. Paris; Moscow, 2008. (Series “Symbol”, no. 53–54). (Co-authored with N. Muskhelishvili and A. Yudin)
Vyacheslav Ivanov’s Tower and the Culture of the Silver Age. St. Petersburg, Publishing House of St. Petersburg State University, 2006. (Co-authored with S. Titarenko)
Between Holy Scripture and Poetry: The VIII International Conference. Europa Orientalis, 2002, vol. XXI, t. 1–2.
Russian-Italian Archive, vol. 2. Salerno, 2002. (Co-authored with D. Rizzi)
Russian-Italian Archive, vol. 3. Salerno, 2001. (Co-authored with D. Rizzi)
Russian-Italian Archive. Trento, Dipartimento di Scienze Filologiche e Storiche, 1997. (Co-authored with D. Rizzi)