Boris F. Egorov

egorov

DSc in Philology

Director of Research, Institute of History, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg

Education: graduated from Leningrad State University, Philology Department (1948) and got his PhD at the University of Tartu (1952)

PhD thesis:

N.A. Dobrolyubov and the Problem of Folklore Studies (1952)

DSc (Habil.) thesis:

Russian Literary Criticism, 1848–1861 (1967)

Research interests: Russian literary criticism of the Twentieth century, Russian poetry, Nineteenth-Century Russian culture, structuralism.

Professional Service

World Association of Writers PEN International

Russian PEN Centre

Writer’s Union of St. Petersburg

International Dostoevsky Society

 

Awards

 

Honorary professor of Saratov University (2001)

Likhachev-prize laureate (2007)

Science fiction writer Alexander Beliaev laureate award (2008).

 

Academic publications — over 400 essays, including 14 books.

Selected publications

 

Monographs (selected)

  • Life in Art of Boris Chichibanin. St. Petersburg: Rostok Publ., 2016. In Russ.
  • Memoir-2. Petersburg: Rostok Publ., 2013. In Russ.
  • Deception in Russian Culture. Petersburg: Rostok Publ., 2012. In Russ.
  • Selected Works. Aesthetic Ideas in the Nineteenth-Century Russia. Petersburg: Letny Sad Publ., 2009. In Russ.
  • Russian Utopias. Historical Guide. Petersburg: Uskusstvo Publ., 2007. In Russ.
  • The Botkins. Petersburg: Nauka Publ., 2004. In Russ.
  • From Homyakov to Lotman. Moscow: YSK Publ., 2003. In Russ.
  • Jegorow, Boris. Oblicza Rosji. Szkice z historii kultury rosyjskiej XIX wieku. Gdańsk, Słowo/obraz terytoria, 2002. In Polish.
  • Russian Poetry. Memoir. Tomsk: Vodolei Publ., 2001. In Russ.
  • M. Lotman’s Life and Work. Moscow: New Literary Ons Publ., 1999. 384 с. In Russ.

 

Selected Essays

  • “Ten Letters of 1967: from the Correspondence of Yu. M. Lotman and Z.G. Mintz (eds. B.F. Egorova and T.D. Kuzovkina.” Russkaya literatura. 2016, no 4. P. 209–226. In Russ.
  • “On P.A. Druzhinin’s Book Ideology and Philology. 1940s.” Russkaya literatura. 2013, no 4. P. 245–249. In Russ.
  • “Binaries and Triads in Dostoevsky and Lotman.” Russkaya literatura. 2011, no 1. P. 133–137. In Russ.
  • “Dostoevsky Encyclopedia.” Russkaya literatura. 2009, no 2. P. 232–235. In Russ.
  • “Yu.N. Govoruha-Otrok and V.M. Garshin.” Russkaya literatura. 2007, no 1. P. 165–172. In Russ.

 

Teaching experience

University of Tartu (1952–1962, Associate Professor; Head of the Dep. of Russian Literature 1954–1960), Leningrad State University (1962–1968, Associate Professor), A.I. Hertzen Leningrad State Pedagogical University (1968–1978, Head of the Dep. of Russian Literature)