Andrey L. Тоporkov

Андрей Львович Топорков

DSc in Philology, corresponding member of RAS (since 2006),

Professor, Director of Research, IWL RAS

Education:

Graduated from the Department of Russian Language and Literature of the A.I. Herzen Leningrad State Pedagogical University (1980)

 

PhD thesis in history:

Domestic Utensils in Polesie Beliefs and Rituals (Nineteenth – the beginning of the Twentieth Centuries) (1986, N.N. Mikluho-Malkay Ethnography Institute, AS USSR)

DSc (Habil.) thesis in philology:

The Theory of Myth in Russian Nineteenth Century Philology (1998, IWL RAS)

 

Research interests: folklore, Russian literature, history of philology, Slavic ethnography

Professional service

Member of the National Committee of Slavists

Member of the Committee on Folklore Studies at the National Committee of Slavists

Member of the Committee on Charms, Charmers and Charming, at the International Society for Folk Narrative Research (ISFNR)

Head of the Editorial Board of the book series “Eternal’ Plots and Images.”

Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Studia Litterarum

Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Literaturni Fakt

Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Russkaya Literatura

Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Incantatio

Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Conversatoria Litteraria (Poland)

Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Zbornik Matitse srpske za slavistiku (Serbia)

Awards and distinctions

Winner of the first prize of the P.G. Bogatirev Competition of folklore studies for the book Charms in Russian Manuscript Tradition of the Fifteenth-Nineteenth Centuries. Moscow, Indrik Publ., 2005 (2008)

 

Academic publications — over 560 publications, including 6 monographs.

Selected publications

Monographs

  • Potebnya A.A. Word and myth, comp., prep. text and notes A.L. Toporkov. Moscow, Academic Project Publ., MIR Foundation Publ., 2021. In Russ.
  • East Slavic Charms: Materials for the Functional Reference of Plots and Motifs. Annotated Bibliography. Moscow, Indrik Publ., 2014 (Co-authored with Tatyana A. Agapkina). In Russ.
  • Sources of the “Tale of Prince Svetomir” by Vyach. Ivanov: Ancient and Medieval Scholarship and Folklore. Moscow, Indrik Publ., 2021. In Russ.
  • Russian Charms from Manuscript Sources, Seventeenth – First Half of the Nineteenth Centuries. Moscow, Indrik Publ., 2010. In Russ.
  • Charms in Russian Manuscript Tradition of the Fifteenth-Nineteenth Centuries. Moscow, Indrik Publ., 2005. In Russ.
  • The Theory of Myth in Russian Nineteenth Century Philology. Мoscow, Indrik Publ., 1997. In Russ.
  • At the Sources of Etiquette. Ethnographic Essays. Leningrad, Nauka Publ., 1990. (Co-authored with A.K. Baiburin). In Russ.

Edited collections and works (selected)

  • Sisinieva Legend in Folklore and Manuscript Traditions of the Middle East, Balcans and Eastern Europe. Мoscow, Indrik Publ., 2017. In Russ.
  • Unknown Pages of Russian Study of Folklore. Мoscow, Indrik Publ., 2015. In Russ.
  • “Eternal” Plots and Images in Literature and Art of Russian Modernism. Мoscow, Indrik Publ., 2015. In Russ.
  • Vyacheslav Ivanov. Tale of Prince Svetomir, eds. A.L. Toporkov, O.L. Fetisenko, A.B. Shishkin. Moscow, Ladomir Publ., Nauka Publ., 2015. In Russ.
  • Oral Charms in Structural and Comparative Light. Proceedings of the Con-ference of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research’s (ISFNR) Committee on Charms, Charmers and Charming. 27–29th October 2011, Moscow, eds.: Tatyana A. Mikhailova, Jonathan Roper, Andrey L. Toporkov, Dmitry S. Nikolayev. Moscow, Probel-2000 Publ., 2011. In Russ.
  • Russian Folklorists: a Biobibliographical Guide. Мoscow, Probel-2000 Publ., 2010. In Russ.
  • Polesie Charms (in the Records of the 1970s–1990s), eds. Т.А. Аgapkina, Е.Е. Levkievskaya, А.L. Toporkov. Мoscow, Indrik Publ., 2003. In Russ.
  • The Non-Existent Manuscripts. Forgery in Slavic Folklore, eds. A.L. Toporkov, T.G. Ivanova, L.P. Lapteva, E.E. Levkievskaya. Moscow, Ladomir Publ., 2002. In Russ.
  • Eros and Pornography in Russian Culture. Moscow, Ladomir Publ., 1999. In Russ.

Selected Essays

  • “The Early Articles by Viktor B. Shklovsky and the School book The Russian Oral Literature by Mikhail N. Speransky.” Izvestiia Rossiiskoi Akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka, vol. 75, no. 2, 2016, pp. 60–65. In Russ.
  • “Martial Charms from the Novel And Quiet Flows the Don: Sources, Structure, Functions.” SHOLOKHOV’S WORLD. Scientific and Educational National Journal, no. 1 (5), 2016, pp. 7–40. In Russ.
  • “Folklore Studies in Interdisciplinary Dialogue.” The Works of Historical-Philological Sciences of RAS. Мoscow, 2016, pp. 23–41. In Russ.
  • “On Symbolism and Functions of Dreams In Vyacheslav Ivanov’s ‛Tale of Prince Svetomir’.” Izvestiia Rossiiskoi Akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka, vol. 74, no. 4, 2015, pp. 17–34. In Russ.
  • “New Research on Old Russian Visual Demonology.” Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, vol. 128, 2014, pp. 351–357. In English

Scopus, Web of Science

  • “‛Dream of the Virgin’ in Russian Handwritten and Folklore Traditions (17th – the Beginning of the 21st Century).” Studia Litterarum, vol. 8, no. 2, 2023, pp. 268–287. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2023-8-2-268-287 
  • “The Experience of Reading the ‘Parafolklore’ Text from I.P. Sakharov’s ‘Tales of the Russian People’.” Studia Litterarum, vol. 7, no. 3, 2022, pp. 298–321. https://doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-3-298-321. In Russ.
  • “Veda of Magic Spells by Magus Veleslav (on Spell-Poetry in the Works of Modern Neo-Paganists).” Russian Literature, vol. 132, 2022, pp. 59–77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ruslit.2022.06.004. In Russ. 
  • “Russian Magic of the 17th Century Through the Eyes of an American Historian (Review of Valerie Kivelson’s Book Desperate Magic, the Moral Economy of Witchcraft in Seventeenth-century Russia, Translated from the English by V. Petrov, Academic Studies Press/BiblikoRossika, 2020).” Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, vol. 173, 2022, pp. 345–367. DOI: 10.53953/08696365_2022_173_1_345 In Russ. 
  • “The History of a Ritual Text Published by Ivan Sakharov.” Studia Litterarum, vol. 6, no. 4, 2021, pp. 372–399. (In Russ.) DOI: 10.22455/2500-4247-2021-6-4-372-399. In Russ.
  • “Alexander Blok’s Article ‛Poetry of Charms and Spells’ as an Esoteric Text. Part II.” Novyi filologicheskii vestnik, no. 3 (58), 2021, pp. 155–169. (Co-authored with A.L. Rychkov). DOI: 10.54770/20729316_2021_3_155. In Russ.
  • “Alexander Blok’s Article ‛Poetry of Charms and Spells’ as an Esoteric Text. Part I.” Novyi filologicheskii vestnik, no. 1, 2021, pp. 148–161. (Co-authored with A.L. Rychkov). DOI: 10.24411/2072-9316-2021-00012. In Russ.
  • “The Structure and Genesis of One Type of Magic Spell against Children’s Insomnia among Slavic Peoples.” Electronic Journal of Folklore, vol. 79, 2020, pp. 35–46. (Co-authored with Tatyana A. Agapkina). DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2020.80.agapkina_toporkov. In English
  • “I.P. Sakharov’s Folklore Stylizations in A.A. Blok’s Essay ‛The Poetry of Charms and Spells’.” Russkaya literatura, 4, 2020, pp. 65–81. DOI: 10.31860/0131-6095-2020-4-65-81. In Russ.
  • “St Sisinnius’ Legend in Folklore and Handwritten Traditions of Eurasia and Africa (Outcomes and Perspectives of Research).” Studia Litterarum, vol. 4, no. 2, 2019, pp. 312–341. DOI: 10.22455/2500-4247-2019-4-2-312-341. In English
  • “Proper Names in the 17th Century Olonets Codex of Verbal Charms.” Voprosy onomastiki, vol. 15, no. 1, 2018, pp. 115–133. DOI: 10.15826/vopr_onom.2018.15.1.005. In Russ.
  • “Poem Vyach. Ivanov ‛Three Coffins’: Sources and Symbolic Structure. Part 2.” Novyi filologicheskii vestnik, no. 2 (45), 2018, pp. 154–166. DOI: 10.22455/2500-4247-2018-3-4-216-239. In Russ.
  • “Poem Vyach. Ivanov ‛Three coffins’: Sources and Symbolic Structure. Part 2.” Novyi filologicheskii vestnik, 3 (42), 2017, pp. 198–213. DOI: 10.24411/2072-9316-2017-00013. In Russ.
  • “А.А. Blok’s Poem ‛The Queen Was Looking at the Vignettes’ and the Spiritual Poem about the Dove Book.” Russkaya Literatura, no. 2, 2015, pp. 192–203. (Co-authored with D.M. Magomedova). In Russ.
  • “Religious Poems in the Russian Literature of the First Third of the Twentieth century.” Russkaya Literatura, no. 1, 2015, pp. 5–29. In Russ.
  • “Charm Indexes: Problems and Perspectives.” The Power of Words: Studies on Charms and Charming in Europe, eds. James Kapaló, Éva Pócs and William Ryan. Budapest, New York, Central European University Press, 2013, pp. 71–99. (Co-authored with T. Agapkina). In English
  • “Verbal Charms Against Authorities and Judges in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Russia.” Russian History, vol. 40, 2013, pp. 532–539 (Witchcraft Casebook: Magic in Russia, Ukraine, Poland, and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, 15th-21st Centuries). In English
  • “Vyacheslav Ivanov's ‛Tale of Prince Svetomir’ and ‛Tale of Kulikovo’.” Russkaya Literatura, no. 4, 2011, p. 111. In Russ.