The department’s staff took part in the 11th All‑Russian Scientific Seminar “Hagiography in the Russian Cultural Space”, which was held from 15 to 17 October at Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad)
The following speakers presented their papers:
- Vladimir M. Kirillin (DSc in Philology, Chief Researcher) “The Bible of 1499 as the result of the labors of the co‑workers of Saint Gennady, Archbishop of Novgorod, and its cultural and historical significance”;
- Michail V. Pervushin (PhD in Philology, Senior Researcher) “Episcopal service as a factor in Russian statehood (10th–20th centuries)”
- Evgeny G. Malyuta (PhD in Philology, Senior Researcher) “‘As one from the ancients’ in the 20th century?” The hagiographic type of the “life‑biography” of St. John of Shanghai.
https://kantiana.ru/events/xi-vserossiyskiy-nauchnyy-seminar-agiografiya-v-russkom-kulturnom-prostranstve/



