Nikolay Uskov

Russian medieval historian and journalist. Candidate of Historical Sciences. One of the authors of the Orthodox Encyclopedia and the Great Russian Encyclopedia. From 2003 to 2012, he was editor-in-chief of the Russian edition of GQ. He currently heads the Russian edition of Forbes. In high school, he became interested in painting and studied at Moscow Children’s Art School No. 2. In 1987, he entered the Faculty of History of Moscow State University. In 1999, while serving as a senior lecturer in the Department of Medieval History at Moscow State University, he defended his dissertation at the Faculty of History for the degree of Candidate of Historical Sciences on the topic “Monasticism and Monastic Reforms in Early Medieval Germany.” He was appointed associate professor. In 2000, Nikolai Uskov left the university for the publishing house Independent Media. He edited the publisher’s Estart.ru portal and, from 2001, the magazine Men’s Health at the same publishing house. In 2002, he became editor-in-chief of the magazine. In 2003, he moved to Condé Nast to become editor-in-chief of the Russian edition of the American magazine GQ (Gentlemen’s Quarterly). In 2012, he left GQ to head Mikhail Prokhorov’s media group Zhivi! The Zhivi! media group included the print publications Snob, F5, and Russian Pioneer, the cable television channel Zhivi!, and the websites snob.ru and f5.ru. In early 2013, the group dissolved, and Uskov became head of Snob. Since January 2016, he has headed the Russian edition of Forbes.