Vera Milchina

Vera Arkadyevna Milchina is a Soviet and Russian literary historian, translator, and commentator. She is a leading research fellow at the E. M. Meletinsky Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Russian State University for the Humanities. She is the daughter of the well-known bibliographer and publishing professional A. E. Milchin; her son is the literary critic Konstantin Milchin.

Vera Milchina graduated from the Faculty of Philology at Moscow State University. She earned her Candidate of Philological Sciences degree in 1979. She is a leading research fellow at the E. M. Meletinsky Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Russian State University for the Humanities. She has been a member of the Moscow Writers’ Union since 1996. She is a member of the administrative council of the Russian Institute in Paris.

She began publishing in 1974. Among the authors whose works have appeared in Russian in Milchina’s translations are Chateaubriand, Germaine de Staël, Benjamin Constant, Victor Hugo, Charles Nodier, Honoré de Balzac, and many others.

Her husband is the musicologist Boris Aronovich Kats.