D.Sc. in Philology

Leading Researcher

Ph.D. Thesis: The Development of Narrative Forms in Dostoevsky's Work (1976)

Dr. Hab. Thesis: The Devils: a novel-warning (1993)

Research interests: 19th and 21st-Century Russian Literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Life and Works, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Life and Works, Writers' Biography, History of Social Thought, Literature and Cinema, Film Adaptation of Literary Classics.

Selected Works

Books

Dostoevskii. Vsadnik v pustyne [Dostoevsky: A Knight in the Desert]. Moscow, Molodaia gvardiia Publ., 2022. 825 p. (In Russ.)

Apollinariia Suslova [Apollinaria Suslova]. Moscow, Molodaia gvardiia Publ., 2022. 439 p. (In Russ.)

Dostoevskii i predshestvenniki. Podlinnoe i mnimoe v prostranstve kul'tury [Dostoevsky and His Ancestors. Real and Imaginary in the Space of Culture]. Moscow, Progress-Traditsiia Publ., 2021. 544 p. (In Russ.)

Nepreodalennoe. Dialogi dvukh desiatiletii [Insurmountable. Dialogues of Two Decades]. Iasnaia Poliana, Iasnaia Poliana Publ., 2009. 151 p. In Russ.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Moscow, Molodaia Gvardiia Publ, 2008. 935 p. In Russ.

Fiodor Dostoïevski. Une Victoire sur les Démons. Traslated by Bruno Bisson. Laussanne–Paris, L'Age d'Homme, 2008. 382 p. In French.

Balashov Nikolai, and Liudmila Saraskina. Sergej Fudel': Messaggi dal km 101. Milano, La Casa di Matriona, 2007. 275 p. In Russ.

Dostoevskii v sozvuchiiakh i pritiazheniiakh (ot Pushkina do Solzhenitsyna) [Dostoevsky in Consonances and Gravitation (from Pushkin to Solzhenitsyn]. Moscow, Russkii put' Publ., 2006. 608 p. In Russ.

Nikolai Speshnev. Nesbyvshaiasia sud'ba [Nikolay Speshnev- Unfulfilled Destiny]. Moscow, Nash dom Publ., L'Age d'Homme Publ., 2000. 536 p. In Russ.

Fedor Dostoevskii. Odolenie Demonov [Fyodor Dostoevsky. Overcoming Demons]. Moscow, Soglasie Publ., 1996. 464 p. In Russ.

Vosliublennaia Dostoevskogo. Apollinariia Suslova: biografiia v dokumentakh, pis'makh, materialakh [Dostoevsky's Lover. Apollinaria Suslova: a Biography in Documents, Letters, Materials]. Moscow, Soglasie Publ., 1994. 456 p. In Russ.

"Besy": roman-preduprezhdenie [The Devils: a Novel-Warning]. Moscow, Sovetskii Pisatel' Publ., 1990. 480 p. In Russ.

"Ne mechem, a dukhom" (Russkaia literatura o voine i mire) ["Not by Sword, but by Spirit" (Russian Literature about War and Peace]. Moscow, Znanie Publ., 1989. 64 p. In Russ.

Scopus, Web of Science

"Vliublennyi Razumikhin: chudnaia sud'ba geroia vtorogo plana. Rassuzhdenie v zhanre apologii" ["Razumikhin in Love: The Wonderful Fate of a Secondary Character. A Discourse in the Genre of Apology"]. Dostoevskii i mirovaia kul'tura. Filologicheskii zhurnal, no. 2 (26), 2024, pp. 53-82. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22455/2619-0311-2024-2-53-82

"'Nado skazat' pravdu': F.M. Dostoevskii i ego sovremenniki v spore ob itogakh Krymskoi kampanii" ["'One Must Tell the Truth: Fyodor Dostoevsky and His Contemporariies in the Debate about the Resultus of the Crimean Campaign"]. Dostoevskii i mirovaia kul'tura. Filologicheskii zhurnal, no. 1 (21), 2023, pp. 96-140. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22455/2619-0311-2023-1-96-140

"Kazus Rodiona Raskol'nikova, kotoryi ne smog ubyt' Alenu Ivanovnu. Opyty al'ternativnoi istorii" ["The Case of Rodion Raskolnikov, Who Could Not Kill Alyona Ivanovna. Essays on Alternate History"]. Dostoevskii i mirovaia kul'tura. Filologicheskii zhurnal, no. 3 (23), 2023, pp. 96-140. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22455/2619-0311-2023-3-129-150

"Geroi-chitateli v romane 'Besy'. Grustnoe tvorchestvo 'Apokalipsa'" ["Character-Readers in Dostoevsky's Novel The Possessed. The Sad Triumph of the Apocalypse"]. Dostoevskii i mirovaia kul'tura. Filologicheskii zhurnal, no. 4 (24), 2023, pp. 172-201. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22455/2619-0311-2023-4-172-201

"Biografii russkikh pisatelei kak mishen' postpravdy" ["The Biographies of Russian Writers as a Target of Post-Truth"]. Neizvestnyi Dostoevskii, vol. 9, no. 4, 2022, pp. 44-68. (In Russ.)

"Byli i nebylitsy v seriale o 'nekhrestomatiinom Dostoevskom'" ["Truths and Lies in the Series about 'Dostoevsky Out of the Textbook"]. Neizvestnyi Dostoevskii. Elektronnyi nauchnyi zhurnal, no. 4, 2020, pp. 70-105. (In Russ.)

Articles

"Arkadii Dolgorukii v kino i na stsene: debiutnyie resheniia" ["Arkady Dolgoruky in Cinema and Theatre: Debut Decisions"]. Dostoevskii i mirovaia kul'tura. Filologicheskii zurnal, no. 2 (14), 2021, pp. 192-223. https://doi.org/10.22455/2541-7894-2021-2-192-223 In Russ.

"Soljénitsyne et Dostoīevski". Soljénitsyne et la France. Une œuvre et un message toujours vivants, Sous la direction de Georges Nivat, Paris: Fayard, 2021, pp. 113-130. In French.

"Kategoriia chelovechnosti i serdechnosti v khudozhestvennoi filosofii F.M. Dostoevskogo" ["The Category of Humanity and Cordiality in the Artistic Philosophy of F.M. Dostoevsky"]. Dostoevskii: filosofskoe myshlenie, vzgliad pisatelia [Dostoevsky: Philosophical Thought, View of a Writer]. Ed. by Stefano Aloe. Saint Petersburg, Dmitrii Bulanin Publ., 2012, pp. 423-436. In Russ.

"Russkie pisateli, soslannye v Sredniuiu Aziiu: F.M. Dostoevskii, A.I. Solzhenitsyn" ["Russian Writers exiled to Central Asia: F.M. Dostoevsky, A.I. Solzhenitsyn"]. Rossiiskoe istoriko-kul'turnoe nasledie. Nauchnoe izdaniie. Issue 8. Orel, 2012, pp. 159-176. In Russ.

"Masskul't: besspornyi angazhment dlia istoricheskoi temy" ["Masscult: a Perpetual Engagement for a Historical Theme"]. Vysokoe i nizkoe v kudozhestvennoi kul'ture. Vol. 2. Ed. by Iu.A. Bogomolov. Nestor-Istoriia Publ., 2013, pp. 38-84. In Russ.