Aleksei I. Chagin

 

Doctor of Philological Sciences, Chief Research Fellow of the Department of Literatures of the Russian Federation and CIS Nations at the Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMLI RAN).

Born in 1946 in Moscow. In 1964, he graduated from high school in Tbilisi. From 1964 to 1969, he studied at the Philological Faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University. From 1969 to 1974, he was a lecturer at Moscow State University. In 1974, he entered postgraduate studies at the Institute of World Literature of the USSR Academy of Sciences (now RAS). In 1979, he defended his Candidate of Sciences dissertation (PhD) and has been working at this institute ever since; in 1998, he defended his Doctor of Sciences dissertation (Dr. hab.) on "Russian Poetry of the 1920s-1930s in Russia and Abroad (Paths of Development and Interaction)."

From April 2003 to January 2005 – Head of the Department of Literatures of the Russian Federation and CIS Nations at IMLI RAN.
From January 2005 to January 2016 – Deputy Director of IMLI RAN.
Since 2016 – Chief Research Fellow of the Department of Literatures of the Russian Federation and CIS Nations.

In 1994–1995, he was a visiting scholar at Yale University (USA).

He participated in a number of international and all-Russian conferences, including: "National Cultures in the Modern World. Folklore. Literature" (Sukhumi, October 22–26, 2003; Sukhumi, October 15–19, 2012), "Problems of Teaching American Students Abroad" (Trinity College, Hartford, USA; October 2004), "Literary Abroad. Personalities. Books. Problems" (IMLI, May 2004), "Issues in Studying the History of National Literatures. Theory. Methodology. Modern Aspects" (Moscow, IMLI RAN, June 11, 2008), "The Creative Personality in Historical and Cultural Space. On the 100th Anniversary of A. E. Kulakovsky's Address 'To the Yakut Intelligentsia'" (Moscow, Moscow House of Nationalities, November 21–22, 2012), and others.

A. I. Chagin is the author of three books and more than 100 articles in various periodicals, academic collections, and encyclopedias.

He is a member of the editorial boards of the "Literary Encyclopedia of the Russian Abroad. 1918–1940," the "Literary Studies Journal," and many collective works of the Department of Literatures of the Russian Federation and CIS Nations at IMLI RAN.

His research interests are associated with the study of 20th-century Russian literature, issues of literary theory, and the interaction of literatures.

List of Scientific Works

Books

  1. Chagin A. I. The Hero and Time (On the Hero of Modern Russian Poetry). M.: Znaniye. 1985. 3.5 p.l.
  2. Chagin A. I. The Split Lyre (Russia and Abroad: The Fate of Russian Poetry in the 1920s–1930s). M.: Naslediye. 1998. 272 p.
  3. Chagin A. I. Paths and Faces. On 20th Century Russian Literature. M.: IMLI RAN, 2008. 600 p.

Articles
(A selection from the extensive list, showing the range of topics. The notation "а.л." refers to "author's sheets," a standard unit of measurement for text volume in Russian publishing.)

  • Chagin A. I. "I Love with Every Drop of Blood..." // Nash Sovremennik. 1973. No. 9. 0.5 p.l.
  • Chagin A. I. "The Spring Night is Full of Movement..." // Znamya. 1976. No. 11. 0.5 p.l.
  • Chagin A. I. "He Finished Speaking Forever in Battle..." // Druzhba Narodov. 1977. No. 3. 0.7 p.l.
  • Chagin A. I. Historism as a Dynamic Category (Problems of Comprehension in Criticism) // Current Problems in the Methodology of Modern Literary Criticism: Principles and Criteria. M., Nauka, 1980 – P. 273 – 301.
  • Chagin A. I. Two Wings of Russian Poetry. Article 1 // Russian Literary Studies Journal. 1993. No. 2. 2 p.l.
  • Chagin A. I. Two Wings of Russian Poetry. Article 2 // Russian Literary Studies Journal. 1993. No. 3.
  • Chagin A. I. The "Thoroughly Masculine World" of Alexander Ginger // Jews in the Culture of the Russian Abroad. Vol. 4. Jerusalem, 1995. 1 p.l.
  • Chagin A. I. Orpheus of Russian Montparnasse. (On the Poetry of Boris Poplavsky) // Russian Literary Studies Journal. 1996. No. 8; 1997. No. 9. 3 p.l.
  • Chagin A. I. Russian Surrealism: Myth or Reality? // Surrealism and the Avant-Garde. M.: GITIS, 1999.
  • Chagin A. I. From the "Fantastic Tavern" to the Café "Port-Royal" // Literary Abroad: The Problem of National Identity. Issue I. M.: [IMLI RAN], Naslediye, 2000. P. 67–93.
  • Chagin A. I. On the Integrity of Russian Literature of the 1920s–1990s // Literature, Culture and Folklore of the Slavic Peoples. XIII International Congress of Slavists. Reports of the Russian Delegation. M.: IMLI RAN, 2002. 0.5 p.l.
  • Chagin A. I. Boris Poplavsky: Poetry at the Crossroads of Traditions // Symbolism and the Avant-Garde. M.: Nauka, 2003. 1 p.l.
  • Chagin A. I. The Relentless World of Yuri Odarchenko // Literary Abroad: Personalities. Books. Problems. Issue III. M.: IMLI RAN, 2005. P. 29–47.
  • Chagin A. I. Between Tradition and the Avant-Garde: The Poetry of Anna Prismanova // Literary Abroad: Personalities. Books. Problems. Issue IV. M.: IMLI RAN, 2007. P. 55–64.
  • Chagin A. I. St. Petersburg – Paris or Acmeism in the Russian Abroad // Literary Abroad: Personalities. Books. Problems. Issue V. M.: IMLI RAN, 2008. P. 47–79.
  • Chagin A. I. "A Citizen of Free Birdhouses…" Vyach. Ivanov in the 1910s–1940s // Literary Classics in the Dialogue of Cultures. Issue 2. M.: IMLI RAN, 2011. P. 42–65.
  • Chagin A. I. The "Sunken Submarine" of Arseny Nesmelov // Literary Abroad: Personalities. Books. Problems. Issue VI. M.: IMLI RAN, 2012. P. 22–40.
  • Chagin A. I. "A Heavy Flight to Eternity". Vladimir Smolensky // Academic Notebooks. Issue 15. M., 2013. P. 188–217.
  • Chagin A. I. Dialogue on the Paths of Russian Poetry (A. Bem and G. Adamovich) // Literary Abroad: Personalities. Books. Problems. Issue VII–VIII. M.: IMLI RAN, 2015. P. 45–54.
  • Chagin A. I. "Russia, We are in an Eternal Rendezvous…" The Poetry of Vladimir Smolensky // Literary Abroad: Personalities. Books. Problems. Issue VII–VIII. M.: IMLI RAN, 2015. P. 247–274.
  • Chagin A. I. The Bottomless Image. On the Possibilities of Analyzing a Poetic Work (O. Mandelstam. "Concert at the Station") // Materials of the VI International Scientific-Practical Conference "Text: Problems and Prospects. Aspects of Study for Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language". M.: Philological Faculty of Moscow State University, November 26–28, 2015. P. 664–666.
  • Chagin A. I. Boris Poplavsky – The Beginning of the Path // The Work of V. V. Mayakovsky. Issue Three. M.: IMLI RAN, 2015. P. 450–463.
  • Chagin A. I. Article: Between the "Belevsky Uyezd" and Semantic Poetics: The Genetic Memory of Literature // Issues in the Study of National Literatures. The Discourse of Identity in Changing Contexts. M.: IMLI RAN, 2017. P. 163–186.
  • Chagin A. I. Article: "The Glass House" of Boris Poplavsky // Russkaya Slovesnost. 2018. No. 1. – P. 49 – 61.

In English

  • Chagin A. I. Literature of the Russian Abroad // Nota Bene. New Haven (USA). 1995. Vol. 9. No. 1. 0.3 p.l.

In Georgian

  • Chagin A. I. Defenders of the Spirit // Alaznis Gantiadi. May 19, 1987. 0.5 p.l.

In Finnish

  • Chagin A. I. The Authorial "I" in Lyric Poetry. On the Problem of Self-Parody // The Elusive Subject. Turku, 1991. 1 p.l.

In Korean

  • Chagin A. I. What's New in Literature: Poetry at the Crossroads of Traditions // Rusistika. (Seoul). 1998. No. 9. 1 p.l.
  • Chagin A. I. Ginger A. S. // Rusistika. (Seoul). 1998. No. 9. 0.5 p.l.
  • Chagin A. I. Knut D. // Rusistika. (Seoul). 1998. No. 9. 0.5 p.l.
  • Chagin A. I. Prismanova A.S. // Rusistika. (Seoul). 1998. No. 9. 0.5 p.l.

Manfred Schruba

 

Doctor Habil., professor at University of Milan

Education:

Graduated from Ruhr-Universität Bochum

PhD thesis:

Studien zu den burlesken Dichtungen V.I. Majkovs (1996)

DSc (Habil.) thesis:

Literatur und Öffentlichkeit. Literarische und philologische Vereinigungen im vorrevolutionären Russland (2002)

Research interests: Russian studies, Polonistics, literary studies, history of culture, bibliography, Russian culture and literature of the eighteenth-century century, Polish culture and literature of the eighteenth-century, history of the culture of the Silver Age, the first wave of Russian emigration, Russian popular printed graphics (lubok).

Professional service

Member of the Editorial Board of the RAS book series Literary heritage

Member of the Editorial board of the following journals: Studia Litterarum (Moscow), Literarny fakt (Moscow), Ezhegodnik doma Russkogo Zarubezhia

Member of the book series Library of the journal “Quaestio Rossica" (Ekaterinburg)

Member of the Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia (UK)

Academic publications — over 130 publications.

Selected publications

Works

  • Issue 1: In memory of Oleg Korostelev,ed.-comp. E.R. Ponomarev, sci. ed. E.R. Ponomarev, M. Schruba, ed. M.S. Shchavlinskii, D.V. Zaitsev. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2024, 752 p. In Russ.
  • Emigranticaetcetera: On the Occasion of the 60th Anniversary of Oleg Korostelev, ed. by E.R. Ponomarev, M. Shruba. Moscow, Dmitrii Sechin Publ., 2019. 960 p. In Russ.
  • Encyclopedia of the Pseudonyms in the Russian Émigré Literature in Europe (1917–1945). Мoscow, Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie Publ., 2018. In Russ.
  • Pseudonyms of the Russian Diaspora. Materials and Research, ed. by M. Shruba and O. Korostelev. Moscow, Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2016. 652 p. In Russ.
  • “Modern Notes” (Paris, 1920-1940). From the Editorial Archive, vol. 1–4, ed. by M. Shruba and O. Korostelev. Moscow, Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie Publ., 2011–2014. In Russ.
  • Around the Editorial Archive of “Contemporary Notes” (Paris, 1920-1940): Digest of Articles and Materials, ed. by M. Shruba and O. Korostelev. Moscow, Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie Publ., 2010. 552 p. In Russ.
  • Literary Unions in Moscow and St. Petersburg, 1890–1917: Guide. Мoscow, Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie Publ., 2004. In Russ.
  • Studien zu den burlesken Dichtungen V.I. Majkovs. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 1997. In German

Selected Essays

  • “Georgii Adamovich and ‘Russian Annals’.” Emigrantica. Issue 1: In memory of Oleg Korostelev,-comp. E.R. Ponomarev, sci. ed. E.R. Ponomarev, M. Schruba, ed. M.S. Shchavlinskii, D.V. Zaitsev. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2024, pp. 174‒191. In Russ.
  • “Around the Book by J.I. Basin ‘National Images of Industrialists’ (1799).” The XVIII Century. Collection 31. Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Al'ians-Arkheo Publ., 2024, pp. 308‒336. In Russ.
  • “‛The Play of Smenovekhovskaya. Forbid:’ about Tatyana Mayskaya’s Comedy ‛Russia no. 2’ (1922).” Culture of the Diaspora: Themes and Variations: Collection of Articles,  by A.A. Danilevsky, S.N. Dotsenko. Moscow, Flinta Publ., Nauka Publ., 2022, pp. 113–123. In Russ.
  • “A Futurist Emulation of Horace.” Literaturnyi fakt, no. 1 (19), 2021, pp. 297 –311. In Russ. https://doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2021-19-297-311
  • “The Journal ʽRussian Annals’ (Paris; Shanghai, 1937–1939): Table of Contents.” Literaturnyi fakt, no. 3 (21), 2021, pp. 352–392. In Russ. https://doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2021-21-352-392
  • “Ivan Bunin and the ‛Russian Annals’.” A. Bunin and His Time: Context of Life — History of Work,ex. eds. T.M. Dvinyatina and S.N. Morozov, eds. A.V. Bakuntsev and E.R. Ponomarev. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2021, pp. 176–190. In Russ. https://doi.org/10.22455/AB-978-5-9208-0675-8-176-190
  • “B.N. Shiryaev’s Book of 1946 on Modern Russian Literature.” Dipiytsy: Materials and Research, ex. ed. P.A. Tribunsky. Moscow, Dom russkogo zarubezh'ia im. A. Solzhenitsyna Publ., 2020, pp. 211–221. In Russ.
  • “Towards a Typology of Literary Associations in Prerevolutionary Russia.” Rhema, no. 4, 2020, pp. 23–48. In Russ.
  • “Stepun and Valentinov (Volski).” Unacknowledged Legislators. Studies in Russian Literary History and Poetics in Honor of Michael Wachtel, e by L. Fleishman, D.M. Bethea, and I. Vinitsky. Berlin, Peter Lang, 2020, pp. 979–992. In Russ.
  • “On the Editorial Archive of the Journal ‛Russian Notes’.” Emigrantica et cetera: On the Occasion of the 60thAnniversary of Oleg Korostelev, ed. by E.R. Ponomarev, M. Shruba. Moscow, Dmitrii Sechin Publ., 2019, pp. 482–499. In Russ.
  • “M.Yu. Morozov — Swiss Correspondent of V.V. Rudnev.” Crossing Destinies: Literarische und kulturelle Beziehungen zwischen Russland und dem Westen. A Festschrift for Fedor B. Poljakov, ed. by L. Fleishman, S.M. Newerkla, and M. Wachtel. Berlin, Peter Lang, 2019, pp. 439–460. In Russ.
  • “Mito e leggenda dell’Ottobre: Mark Višnjak e Georgij Fedotov sulla Rivoluzione russa.” Ancora sulla rivoluzione russa. Atti del Convegno “Linguaggio, potere e ideologia nel centenario della Rivoluzione Russa”, 9 novembre 2017, a cura di L. Goletiani e A. Franco. Alessandria, Edizioni dell’Orso, 2019, pp. 69–77. In Italian
  • “Vadim Andreev in the Journal and Publishing House ‛Russian Notes’.” Across Borders: 20thCentury Russian Literature and Russian-Jewish Cultural Contacts: Essays in Honor of Vladimir Khazan, ed. by L. Fleishman and F. Poljakov. Berlin, Peter Lang, 2018, pp. 499–534. In Russ.
  • “Letters from V.V. Nabokov to V.F. Khodasevich and N.N. Berberova (1930–1939). Letter from N. Bereberova to V. Nabokov”, publ. and notes by A. Babikov and M. Schruba; introd. Babikova. Wiener Slavistisches Jahrbuch, vol. 5, 2017, pp. 217–248. In Russ.
  • “On the Adjective Pseudonyms. Concerning the Feuilleton by Gulliver (V.F. Khodasevich).” Literary Life. Articles. Publications. Memoirs. Commemoration of A.Yu. Galushkina, ed. by V.V. Polonsky, comp. by M.L. Spivak, M.P. Odesskii. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2017, pp. 304–314. In Russ.

Scopus

  • “V.V. Nabokov and the Review Russian Annals.” Russkaia literatura, 2024, no. 2, pp. 211‒217. In Russ.
  • “The Western‑European Tradition of Depicting the Chameleon  in Russian Popular Prints.” QuaestioRossica,  10, no. 1, 2022, pp. 96–115. DOI: 10.15826/qr.2022.1.661.
  • “Dandyism and Libertinage in Russian Popular Paintings.” RussianLiterature,  76, no. 1–2, 2014, pp. 151–165. In Russ.
  • “‛Ars poetica’ by М.М. Kheraskov.” Russian Literature, 75, no. 1–4, 2014, pp. 535–561. (Co-authored with: Michela Venditti, Naples). In Russ.
  • “Russland als Schauplatz der polnischen Gegenwartsliteratur (Sławomir Mrożek, Janusz Głowacki, Jacek Dukaj).” Zeitschrift für Slavische Philologie, 68, Heft 2, 2011, S. 359–375. In German
  • “Zur Typologie intertextueller Verfahren (Čechov bei Akunin, Sorokin, Głowacki und Mamet).” Zeitschrift für Slawistik, 53, Heft 4, 2008, S. 438–455. In German
  • “Frivol-satirische Dichtungen des polnischen Barock und die westeuropäische Epigrammatik des 17. ”Zeitschrift für Slavische Philologie, Bd. 65, Heft 1, 2007/2008, S. 25–49. In German
  • “Arten und Funktionen intertextueller Bezüge in den Dramen Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewiczs.” Zeitschrift für Slawistik, 50,  Heft 2, 2005, S. 161–174. In German
  • “Polnische libertine Dichtungen der Aufklärungszeit im europäischen Kontext.” Zeitschrift für Slavische Philologie, 62, Heft 1, 2003, S. 127–147. In German
  • “Intertextuelles und Poetologisches zum ‛Uznik’ A.S. Puškins.” Zeitschrift für Slawistik, 47, Heft 4, 2002, S. 423–431. In German
  • “Gore ot ženskogo uma: A.A. Šachovskojs Kokette vor dem Hintergrund der Figurentypologie der russischen Komödie des 18. und frühen 19. ” Zeitschrift für Slawistik,Bd. 43, Heft 3, 1998, S. 327–335. In German

Teaching (present)

Professor of Russian culture history at the University of Milan (Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di scienze della mediazione linguistica e culturale).

Vladimir I. Khazan

 

DSc in Philosophy, Professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem

PhD thesis:

The Theme of Death in the Russian Poetry of the 20th Century (S. Esenin, M. Tsvetaeva, A. Akhmatova)

DSc Thesis:

Poetry of the Silver Age: Themes and Poetics

Research interests:

History of Russian literature of the 20th century (at home and abroad); problems of the Russian-Jewish cultural dialogue.

Professional Service:

  • Member of the Academic Council of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • Member of the Academic Council of the magazine “Sdvig/Shift” (Naples)
  • Member of the Editorial Board of the academic series “Emigrantica” (IWL RAS, Moscow)

Awards and distinctions:

Professor Emeritus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Teaching Activity:

Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Russian and Slavic Studies, the author of the project “School of the Humanities University Knowledge”.

Academic publications — over 200 publications.

 

Monographs

  • Problems of S. Esenin’s Poetics. Moscow; Grozny, 1988. 185 pp.
  • The Theme of Death in Lyric Cycles of the Russian Poets of the 20thCentury (S. Esenin, M. Tsvetaeva, A. Akhmatova). Grozny, Chechen State University, 1992. 171 pp.
  • Mandelshtam and A. Akhmatova: Outlines of Dialogue. Grozny, Chechen State University, 1992. 277 p.
  • Dovid Knout: The Fate and Creative Work. Lyon, Centre d’Études Slaves André Lirondelle; Université Jean-Moulin, 2000. 209 p.
  • Problems of Russian-Jewish Literary Dialogue of the 20thCentury. Jerusalem, Gesharim; Moscow, Mosty kul’tury Publ., 2001. 431 p.
  • Petersburg in the Poetry of Russian Emigration (the first and second waves). Introduction, preparation of the text, and commentaries by R. Timenchik and V. Khazan. Petersburg, Akademicheskii proekt Publ., 2006. 847 p.
  • The Odyssey of Captain Boevsky: A Russian Sailor in the Holy Land. Moscow, Dom evreiskoi knigi Publ., 2007. 422 p.
  • Pinchas Rutenberg: From Terrorist to Zionist. In two volumes. Jerusalem, Gesharim; Moscow, Mosty kul’tury Publ., 2008. 976 p.
  • Osip Dymov. I Remembered and Wanted to Relate...: From the Memoir and Epistolary Heritage: In two volumes, vol. 1: This Is What I Remember / Transl. from Yiddish by M. Lemster; Ed. with a preface and commentaries by V. Khazan. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Center of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 2011. 714 p.
  • Osip Dymov. I Remembered and Wanted to Relate...: From the Memoir and Epistolary Heritage: In two volumes, vol. 2: Friends and Fellow Artists / Compilation and commentaries by V. Khazan. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Center of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 2011. 566 p.
  • Cure for the Incurable: An Epistolary Dialogue between Lev Shestov and Max Eitingon. Moscow, Vodolei Publ., 2014. 278 p. (with E. Il'ina)
  • The Life and Work of Andrei Sobol, or the Story of How Everything Turned out the Other Way Around. St. Petersburg, Izdatel'stvo imeni N.I. Novikova; Galina skripsit Publ., 2015. 912 p.
  • “A Double Burden, a Double Cross”: Andrei Sobol as a Russian-Jewish Writer.Boston, Academic Studies Press, 2017. 179 p.

Collective Works (Editor)

  • From Shalom Aleichem to Ivan Bunin, ed. V. Khazan. Jerusalem, Studio Click, 2022. 686 p. (Series “Russian History and Culture in the Archives of Israel”, Book I)
  • Margolin Yu. Journey to the Land of the Convict; the Road to the West; Poetry, comp. and ed. by M. Shauli, with introd. by V. Khazan. Jerusalem, Studio Click Ltd Publ., 2023. 704 p. (Series “Russian History and Culture in the Archives of Israel”, Book II, Part 1)
  • Margolin Yu. Letters, comp. and ed. by V. Khazan. Jerusalem, Studio Click Ltd, 2024. 750 p. (Series “Russian History and Culture in the Archives of Israel”, Book II, Part 2)

Selected Essays

  • “Andrei Sobol’ in Odessa.” Moria,  8, 2007, pp. 145–178.
  • “Pinchas Rutenberg, Odessa 1919.” Moria, no. 7, 2007, pp. 120–145.
  • “‘Was Everything in Reality?’ (Commentary for the One Literary-Biographical Mystification).” A Century’s Perspective: Essays on Russian Literature in Honor of Olga Raevsky Hughes and Robert P. Hughes. Stanford, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Stanford University, 2006), pp. 464–489. (Series “Stanford Slavic Studies”)
  • “Between Russia and Palestine (Materials on P. Rutenberg’s Biography from his Israeli Archive.” Jews and Slavs. 17: The Russian Word in the Land of Israel, the Jewish Word in Russia. Jerusalem, 2006. pp. 55–77.
  • “On One Incredible Discussion, or Berlin Impulses of Jabotinsky’s Novel ‘Samson Nazorei’.” Russian Berlin,1920–1945.Moscow, Russkii put' Publ., 2006, pp. 239–262.
  • “A Jewish Accent of the Eurasian Movement.” Quadrivium: Festschrift Professor W. Moskovich. Jerusalem, s.n., 2006, pp. 339–346.

Sergei R. Fedyakin

 

Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor 

Education 

- Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI) (1977). 

- Gorky Literary Institute of the USSR Writers' Union (1989). 

Qualifications (including academic) 

- Systems Engineer (1977). 

- Literary Worker (1989). 

Main Professional Activity 

Worked as an engineer at the Moscow Aggregate Plant "Dzerzhinets" (now JSC "Aeroelektromash") (1977–1981); Senior Engineer-Programmer at ENIMS (1981–1983); at the State Computing Center of the USSR Ministry of Education (1983–1989). Since late August 1989, he has been working at the Literary Institute. Member of the Writers' Union of Russia.

Biography 

Born in Moscow in 1954. Graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute with a specialization in "Automated Control Systems" in 1977. Worked as a programmer in various institutions. In 1989, he graduated from the Gorky Literary Institute (correspondence department). Has been working at the Literary Institute since late August 1989. Defended his Candidate of Sciences dissertation titled "The Genre of 'The Recluse' in 20th-Century Russian Literature" in 1995. Over the years, he has taught courses such as "The Works of V.V. Rozanov," "Russian Literature and Russian Music at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries," "Features of the Artistic Consciousness of Russian Writers of the First Half of the 20th Century," "Russian Literature of the 1940s–1990s," "Literature of the Russian Diaspora," and "Main Trends in 20th-Century Russian Literature." His primary occupation is reflected in his bibliography. His main leisure activity is classical music.

Participation in Research Projects 

- Electronic full-text online edition of the journal Sovremennye Zapiski (Paris) (under an RFH grant, project No. 07-04-12105v, 2007–2009) – project leader. (http://www.emigrantika.ru/news/7-sovremen)

Participation in Conferences 

Participated in various conferences dedicated to the works of Bunin, Gazdanov, Gogol, Green, Zabolotsky, Zoshchenko, Klychkov, Kuprin, Platonov, Rachmaninoff, Rozanov, Scriabin, and others. 

Scientific Secretary of the International Scientific Conference dedicated to the works of G.V. Ivanov (Gorky Literary Institute, November 20–21, 2008). Compiler and editor-in-chief of the collection based on the conference materials: Georgy Vladimirovich Ivanov: Research and Materials. 1894–1958. International Scientific Conference. Moscow: Publishing House of the Gorky Literary Institute, 2011.

Achievements and Awards (Prizes, Honors, Honorary Titles) 

- Laureate of the literary prize of the State Academic Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra named after P.I. Tchaikovsky (artistic director and chief conductor V.I. Fedoseyev) as part of the jubilee festival "Faith, Hope, Love..." (2005). 

- Laureate of the "Imperial Culture" Prize named after Eduard Volodin in 2014 in the "Prose" category for the book in the "Lives of Remarkable People" series, Rachmaninoff (2014).

Bibliography 

Main Publications: 

- P.V. Basinsky, S.R. Fedaykin, Russian Literature from the Late 19th to Early 20th Century and the First Wave of Emigration (Moscow: Academia, 1999). 

- Fedaykin S.R., Scriabin (Lives of Remarkable People). Moscow: Molodaya Gvardiya, 2004. 

- Fedaykin S.R., Mussorgsky (Lives of Remarkable People). Moscow: Molodaya Gvardiya, 2009. 

- Fedaykin S.R., Rachmaninoff (Lives of Remarkable People). Moscow: Molodaya Gvardiya, 2014. 

- Fedaykin S.R., The Artistic Prose of Vasily Rozanov: Genre Features. Moscow: Gorky Literary Institute, 2014. 

Compiler, Author of Introductory Articles, and Commentator 

Books by N. Bakhitin, V. Rozanov, V. Nabokov, A. Remizov, B. Zaitsev, N. Gumilev, V. Khodasevich, G. Ivanov, I. Bunin, K. Mochulsky, G. Adamovich, A. Blok, N. Gogol, M. Lermontov, and others. Author of articles in dictionaries, encyclopedias, and textbooks about I.A. Bunin, A.A. Blok, V.V. Rozanov, I.F. Annensky, V.V. Nabokov, I.S. Shmelev, V.L. Korvin-Piotrovsky, N.M. Bakhitin, K.V. Mochulsky, and others, as well as numerous articles on the history of literature and music.

Roman D. Timenchik

 

 

PhD in Philology, Professor Emeritus, Hebrew University (Jerusalem, Israel)

PhD Thesis:

Aesthetic Principles of Anna Akhmatova's Pre-revolutionary Poetry

Research interests:

History of Acmeism; poetry of the Silver Age; the works of A. Akhmatova, N. Gumilev, O. Mandelstam, A. Blok, I. Annensky, as well as A. Pushkin, V. Nabokov, I. Brodsky.

Professional Service:

  • Member of the editorial board of and a contributor to the biographical dictionary “Russian Writers. 1800–1917”
  • Member of the editorial board of the journals Novoe literaturnoe obozrenieand Literaturnyi fakt.
  • Member of the editorial board of the “Literary Heritage”(1988–1991)

Awards and distinctions:

  • Awarded the Andrei Bely Prize (2006)

Teaching Activity:

  • Professor of Slavic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. As a visiting professor, also lectured at the University of California.

Academic publications 

 

Monographs

  • The history of the Gumilev Cult. Moscow, Mosty kul'tury Publ., 2018. 690 p.
  • Underground Classics: Innokenty Annensky. Nikolai Gumilev. Moscow, Mosty kul'tury Publ.; Jerusalem, Gesharim Publ., 2017. 777 p.
  • The Last Poet. Anna Akhmatova in the 60s: in 2 vol. Moscow, Mosty kul'tury Publ.; Jerusalem, Gesharim Publ., 2014.
  • So Why. Articles on Russian Literature of the Last Century. Moscow, Mosty kul'tury Publ.; Jerusalem, Gesharim Publ., 2008. 686 p.
  • Anna Akhmatova in the 1960s.Moscow, Vodolei Publishers; Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2005. 784 p.
  • Anna Akhmatova and Music: Research Essays. Leningrad, Sovetskii kompozitor Publ., 1989. 334 p. (with B.A. Kats)
  • “Keeping a Sad Story…”: On the Author and Readers of “The Bronze Horseman”. Moscow, Kniga Publ., 1985. 350 p. (Co-authored with A.L. Ospovat)

Selected Essays

  1. Olga Yu. Panova
  2. Kazbek K. Sultanov
  3. Tatiana M. Dviniatina
  4. Vladimir L. Klyaus

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