Aleksey Yuryevich Balakin, Editor-in-Chief
PhD in Philology. Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House), Russian Academy of Sciences, Senior Research Fellow.
A.Y. Balakin has been working at the Department of Pushkin Studies at IRLI RAS since 2004 and has served as the Academic Secretary of the Pushkin Commission of the RAS since 2009. He has participated in all major projects of the Department over the past twenty years: the «Pushkin Encyclopedia,» the four-volume collection «Pushkin in Contemporary Criticism,» and «Digital Pushkin.» He is also a member of the editorial board for the Academic Complete Collected Works of Pushkin. Balakin is the author of several dozen articles on Pushkin and the writers of his era, focusing on textual problems: attribution, dating, establishing definitive texts, etc. Balakin regularly presents papers on Pushkin at national and international conferences and gives public lectures at various venues (museums, libraries, online resources). He also frequently participates in thematic television programs. Furthermore, he teaches courses on textual criticism to master’s degree students at St. Petersburg State University and to postgraduate students at Pushkin House.
Member of the editorial boards of the journals «Literary Fact» (Literaturnyy fakt) and «Summer School in Russian Literature» (Letnyaya shkola po russkoy literature).
Editorial Board
Mariya Naumovna Virolainen
Corresponding Member of the RAS, Doctor of Sciences in Philology, Professor. Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House), Russian Academy of Sciences, Chief Research Fellow.
M.N. Virolainen is the author of over 400 scientific articles and publications, including the repeatedly republished monographs «Speech and Silence: Plots and Myths of Russian Literature» (St. Petersburg, 2003, 2016, 2022) and «Historical Metamorphoses of Russian Literature» (St. Petersburg, 2007, 2016, 2022). Under the scientific editorship of M.N. Virolainen, two volumes of the academic Complete Collected Works of A.S. Pushkin were published (St. Petersburg, 2009. Vol. 7; St. Petersburg, 2019. Vol. 3, bk. 1; in other volumes of this edition, she served as a textual critic and commentator). She also edited collections of scientific works such as «Legends and Myths about Pushkin» (St. Petersburg, 1994, 1999), «The Gogol Phenomenon» (St. Petersburg, 2011), «The World of Lermontov» (St. Petersburg, 2015), and «Socio-Cultural Contexts of Russian Literature from the 9th to the 20th Centuries» (St. Petersburg, 2024). The «Pushkin Encyclopedia» (St. Petersburg, 2009-2024. Issues 1-5) includes 133 articles by Virolainen on Pushkin’s works.
Editor-in-Chief of the academic Complete Collected Works of A.S. Pushkin (St. Petersburg, 1999–2024)
Member of the editorial board of the «Pushkin Encyclopedia» (St. Petersburg, 2009-2024)
Member of the editorial board of the «Vremennik of the Pushkin Commission» (Pushkinskoy komissii)
Member of the editorial board of the journal «Russian Literature» (Russkaya literatura)
Member of the editorial board of the journal «Vestnik of St. Petersburg State University. Language and Literature» (Vestnik SPbGU. Yazyk i literatura)
Yekaterina Yevgenyevna Dmitrieva
Corresponding Member of the RAS, Doctor of Sciences in Philology. Gorky Institute of World Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences, Chief Research Fellow; Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House), Russian Academy of Sciences, Leading Research Fellow.
Work on the academic Complete Collected Works and Letters of N.V. Gogol; responsible editor of Vol. 1, 8, 2 (in press). Since 2023 – Editor-in-Chief of the Complete Collected Works and Letters.
Collaboration with the Institute of Modern Manuscripts and Texts (Institut des textes et manuscrits modernes, ITEM, Paris, France). Within this collaboration, the «Anthology of Genetic Criticism» was published (including the introductory article and dictionary of genetic criticism by Y.E. Dmitrieva), as well as a number of collective works on problems of textual criticism.
Works on the theory of cultural transfer (in co-authorship with Michel Espagne, French National Centre for Scientific Research).
Member of the Public Editorial Board of the journal «Foreign Literature» (Inostrannaya literatura)
Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the journal «Literary Fact» (Literaturnyy fakt)
Member of the editorial board of «Studia litterarum»
Member of the editorial board of the journal «Russian Literature» (Russkaya literatura)
Member of the editorial board of the journal «Russian Speech» (Russkaya rech’)
Member of the editorial board of the «Literary Monuments» (Literaturnye pamyatniki) book series.
Vsevolod Yevgenyevich Bagno
Corresponding Member of the RAS, Doctor of Sciences in Philology. Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House), Russian Academy of Sciences, Scientific Director of IRLI RAS.
V.Ye. Bagno is one of the leading Russian comparatist literary scholars. Continuing the work of Academician M.P. Alekseyev, he has dedicated himself to the study of Russian literature in the context of world culture, the image of Russia in world literature, the patterns of intercultural connections, and the history and theory of literary translation. V.Ye. Bagno is a recognized leader in the field of studying the connections between Spanish-speaking cultures and Russian literature and culture. His interests cover a broad range, encompassing Russian literature from Old Russian writing to the works of Khodasevich and Platonov, Russian folklore, Spanish and French literature, Latin American literatures, imagology, comparative literature, and problems of cultural studies.
Editor-in-Chief of the journal «Russian Literature» (Russkaya literatura); Member of the editorial boards of the journals «Izvestia of the RAS. Series in Literature and Language» (Izvestiya RAN. Seriya literatury i yazyka), «Plotology and Plotography» (Syzhetologiya i syuzhetografiya, Novosibirsk), «Children’s Readings» (Detskiye chteniya), «Text and Tradition» (Tekst i traditsiya), «Studia Slavica» (Tallinn), «Chinese Journal of Slavic Studies» (Beijing), «Literature of the Two Americas» (Literatura dvukh Amerik), «Dostoevsky and World Literature» (Dostoyevskiy i mirovaya literatura).
Elena Nikolayevna Grigoryeva
PhD in Philology, Docent (Associate Professor). Department of the History of Russian Literature, Faculty of Philology, St. Petersburg State University, Associate Professor.
Author of over 30 articles. Research interests: Russian literature of the Golden Age, poetics, literary theory. Co-developer of a unique 7-semester course in literary theory («Introduction to Literary Studies,» «Composition and Text Structure,» «Versification,» «Rhetoric,» «Hermeneutics,» «Methods of Analyzing Literary Text»). Participant in research projects: «The St. Petersburg School of Literary Studies» (2000-2002); «Development of Theoretical Foundations for the History of Literature» (2006-2008); «Study of Current Problems in the Theory and History of Literature in the Context of Modern Humanities» (2009-2010); «Development of a Theory of Narrative Models and Narrative Structures: Fundamental Problems of Modern Narratology» (2009-2013); «Study of Controversial Issues in Modern Hermeneutics: Theory and Practice» (2011), among others. Head of the project «Scientific and Methodological Development of Support for Educational Programs in Literary Theory (Composition and Hermeneutics)» (2011-2013).
Participant in the «Pushkin.Digital» project.
Aleksandr Anatolyevich Karpov
Doctor of Sciences in Philology, Professor. Department of the History of Russian Literature, St. Petersburg State University, Professor, Head of the Department.
Author of over 140 scholarly works, primarily devoted to Russian literature of the first half of the 19th century. Has prepared scholarly editions of A.S. Pushkin, N.V. Gogol, N.M. Yazykov, N.A. Polevoy, and others. For many years, has taught courses on the history of Russian literature of the first half of the 19th century at the Faculty of Philology of St. Petersburg State University.
Member of the editorial board of the journal «Art Logos.»
Tatyana Ivanovna Krasnoborodko
PhD in Philology. Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House), Russian Academy of Sciences, Leading Research Fellow, Academic Curator of the Pushkin Manuscript Collection.
Principal works defining her contribution to the development of Pushkin studies are primarily associated with current issues in studying Pushkin’s manuscript heritage, held at IRLI (Pushkin House) RAS: the history of the collection’s formation; scholarly publications of archival sources on the history of Pushkin House and Pushkin studies; scholarly facsimile editions of Pushkin’s autographs («The Working Notebooks of A.S. Pushkin» in 8 vols., «The Boldino Manuscripts of 1830» in 3 vols., «The Album of Yelizaveta Nikolayevna Ushakova»); textual and paleographic research directly related to the preparation of the academic edition of the Complete Collected Works of A.S. Pushkin; expert examination and attribution (re-attribution) of manuscripts by Russian writers of the first third of the 19th century (including Pushkin).
Olga Borisovna Lebedeva
Doctor of Sciences in Philology, Professor. Department of Russian and Foreign Literature, Faculty of Philology, National Research Tomsk State University, Professor, Honored Professor of TSU.
Author of 7 monographs and over 400 publications devoted to the works of V.A. Zhukovsky, A.S. Pushkin, A.S. Griboyedov, Russian high comedy of the 18th century, and comparatist and imagological issues; author of the textbook «History of Russian Literature of the 18th Century»; member of the editorial board of the Complete Collected Works and Letters of V.A. Zhukovsky in 20 volumes (responsible editor).
Member of the editorial board of the almanac «Russica Romana» (Rome, Italy) and the journal «Imagology and Comparativistics» (Imagologiya i komparativistika).