Monica L. Spivak

DSc in Philology, 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:
History of Russian literature and culture of the late 19^th — first third of the 20^th 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

Honorary titles and awards:
Honoured Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation (2011)
Laureate of the Moscow Government Award to employees of state cultural institutions of the city of Moscow in the framework of the 2014 Year of Culture in the Russian Federation in the nomination “For the best implemented project in the field of culture” (2014)
Honoured Worker of Culture of Moscow (2016)
Academic publications (24 in total, including 4 monographs):

Monographs:

Andrey Bely: Between Myth and Fate. Moscow, Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie Publ., 2023. 848 p.
Andrey Bely as a Mystic and a Soviet Writer, 2nd ed., add. Moscow, RSUH Publ., 2020. 610 p.
“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.
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.

Collective works (editor):

Literary Heritage. Volume 115: Family Chronicles in the Letters & Diaries of Tatyana Gippius (1906–1908) / Ed. by М.М. Pavlova. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2025. 896 p., ill.
Andrey Bely: Aspects, Contexts, Subtexts: Articles and Publications / ex. ed. M.L. Spivak, comp. ed. E.V. Glukhova, I.B. Delektorskaya, M.L. Spivak. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2024. 864 p. https://doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0737-3
Literary Heritage. Volume 114: Correspondence between Pyotr Vyazemsky and Pyotr Bartenev (1865–1877). Comp., text prep., introd. and comm. by L.I. Sobolev. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2024. 704 p., ill.
Bely A. “All Thoughts for Publication are Locked up”: Diaries of the 1930s. Moscow, Common Place Publ., 2021. 413 p.
“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, Gosudarstvennyi muzei A.S. Pushkina Publ., 2020. 254 p.
A Novel in Letters: Materials from the Archive of the Goetheanum (Dornach). Moscow, Ruthenia Publ., 2020. 383 p.
Bely A. The History of the Formation of a Self-conscious Soul: in 2 books. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2020.
Symbolism and Poetics of Space in the Works of Andrei Bely: Collection of Art. St. Petersburg, Nestor-Istoriia Publ., 2020. 323 p.
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.
Andrey Bely: Autobiography and Biographical Practices. Moscow, Nestor-Istoriia Publ., 2015. 317 p.

Articles:

“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.
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.
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.
The “Christology” of Bely the anthroposophist: Andrei 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.
Scopus / Web of Science publications:
“A Swarm of Names”: From the Jubilee of N.V. Bugaev (1900) to the Honoring of Korobkin in Andrei Bely’s Novel Moscow (1926). Russian Literature, 2024, no. 4, pp. 147–168. https://doi.org/10.31860/0131-6095-2024-4-147-168
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.
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.
Andrei 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.