Evgeniy Vodolazkin

Evgeny Germanovich Vodolazkin is a Russian writer and literary scholar. Doctor of Philological Sciences. Graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Kyiv State University named after T. G. Shevchenko (1986). In the same year, he entered postgraduate studies at the Department of Old Russian Literature of the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House), where in 1990 he defended his Candidate of Sciences dissertation, “The Chronicle of George Hamartolos in Old Russian Literature,” and in 2000 his doctoral dissertation, “World History in the Literature of Old Rus’ (based on chronographic and paleian narratives of the 11th–15th centuries).” He was enrolled in the staff of the Institute of Russian Literature in 1990; since 2005 he has been a leading research fellow. From 1990 to 1993 he served as academic secretary of the Department of Old Russian Literature. Field of scholarly interests: historical narrative of Old Rus’, Old Russian exegesis, modern Russian literature. Author of more than 100 scholarly works, including the monographs “Kirill, Ferapont, and Martinian of Belozersk.” St. Petersburg, 1993 (coauthored with G. M. Prokhorov and E. E. Shevchenko) and “World History in the Literature of Old Rus’ (based on chronographic and paleian narratives of the 11th–15th centuries).” Munich, 2000; the articles “Features of the Textology of Early Slavic Translations (based on the Chronicle of George Hamartolos)” // A Thousand and Eighty Years since the Death of St. Naum of Ohrid. Sofia, 1993. Pp. 242–249; “La figura di Serafim nell’opera di Nikolaj Leskow” // San Serafim da Sarov a Diveevo. Bose, 1998. Pp. 261–271; “On One Source of V. Nabokov’s Novel ‘Despair’” // Hypertext Despair. Hypertext Despair. Based on the materials of an international conference he organized, he published the collection of articles “Monastic Culture: East and West” (St. Petersburg, 1999). Compiler and responsible editor of the book “Dmitry Likhachev and His Epoch. Memo