PhD in Philology,

Senior Researcher,

Department of Old Slavic Literatures, IWL RAS

Education:

1991–1996 ― the School of Philology of the Odessa University

1996–2000 ― Graduate School of Old Russian Literature IWL RAS

PhD thesis:

The Literary Worldview of Protopope Avvakum: the Semantics of the Negative Characters Images (2002)


Research interests: history of literature of old Russia, artistic images, hermeneutics.

Professional Service

Member of the Editorial Board of the Serial Scientific Edition Hermeneutics of Old Russian Literature

Academic publications — over 80, including a monograph.

Selected publications

Monograph

Protopope Avvakum: the Literary Images of the Russian Schism. Hermeneutics of Old Russian Literature. Moscow, 2005. Issue 12. P. 186–316.

Selected Essays

  • “Between Two Epochs: the Peculiarities of the Author’s Consciousness, Traditional Concepts and New Meanings in the Collection Honest Youth Mirror.” Sinergiia Nauk, 2018,no 24. Pp. 1369–1386. In Russ.
  • “Reference to the Other Sources in the Instruction to the Girls of the Collection Honest Youth Mirror (to the Formulation of the Problem).” Sinergiia Nauk, 2018,no 30. Pp. 1969–1975. In Russ.
  • “The Genealogy of the Righteous Job and the Motive of the “Rotten Kind” in the Works of Protopope Avvakum.” Hermeneutics of Old Russian Literature. Issue 16–17. Russian Academy of Sciences; A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature; ex. ed. M.V. Pervushin. Moscow, 2014. Pp. 1086–1094. In Russ.
  • “Patristic Symbolism in the Works of Protopope Avvakum (Figurative Interchange in the works of Avvakum and St John Chrysostom).” Hermeneutics of Old Russian Literature. Issue 16–17. Russian Academy of Sciences; A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature; ex. ed. M.V. Pervushin. Moscow, 2014. Pp. 1094–1100. In Russ.
  • “The Theme of the “Holy Land” and “Second Jerusalem” in the Sermon on Law and Grace by Metropolitan Hilarion.” Hermeneutics of Old Russian Literature. Issue 16–17. Russian Academy of Sciences; A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature; ex. ed. M.V. Pervushin. Moscow, 2014. Pp. 791–796. In Russ.
  • “Two Vessels for the Rostov Lake: an Old Russian Man in a Court Dispute.” Medieval Personality in Written and Archaeological Sources: Moscow Russia, Russian Empire and their Neighbors. Materials of the International Scientific Conference. Institute of Archeology RAS, Institute of Russian History RAS; ex. ed. L.A. Belyaev, N.M. Rogozhin; Ed. I.I. Elkina, S.M. Shamin. 2016. Pp. 149–154. In Russ.

Tutorials

  • History of Literature of Old Russia: a Textbook for Students of Institutions of Higher Professional Education. 2nd ed., corr. и add. Moscow, Academy Publ., 2012. 363, [1] p. In Russ.
  • “The Tale of the Azov Siege.” The History of Old Russian Literature: a Teaching and Analytical Manual (part of the circulation was published under the title Literature of Moscow and Before Moscow Russia). Moscow, 2008. Pp. 204–212. In Russ.
  • “Tales of the Beginning of Moscow.” The History of Old Russian Literature: a Teaching and Analytical Manual (part of the circulation was published under the title Literature of Moscow and Before Moscow Russia). Moscow, 2008. Pp. 213–219. In Russ.
  • “The Life of Juliana of Lazarevo.” The History of Old Russian Literature: a Teaching and Analytical Manual (part of the circulation was published under the title Literature of Moscow and Before Moscow Russia). Moscow, 2008. Pp. 397–404. In Russ.
  • “The Tale of Possessed Solomonia.” The History of Old Russian Literature: a Teaching and Analytical Manual (part of the circulation was published under the title Literature of Moscow and Before Moscow Russia). Moscow, 2008. Pp. 405–408. In Russ.
  • “The Life of Protopope Avvakum.” The History of Old Russian Literature: a Teaching and Analytical Manual (part of the circulation was published under the title Literature of Moscow and Before Moscow Russia). Moscow, 2008. Pp. 409–419. In Russ.
  • “Sermons of Simeon of Polotsk.” The History of Old Russian Literature: a Teaching and Analytical Manual (part of the circulation was published under the title Literature of Moscow and Before Moscow Russia). Moscow, 2008. Pp. 515–519. In Russ.
  • “Domestic Order.” The History of Old Russian Literature: a Teaching and Analytical Manual (part of the circulation was published under the title Literature of Moscow and Before Moscow Russia). Moscow, 2008. Pp. 548–556. In Russ.

Teaching

2003–2011 ― Assistant Professor at the Department of Russian Classical Literature, School of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University.

2003–2015 ― Assistant Professor at the Department of Cultural Studies, Sholokhov Moscow State University for Humanities.