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Professional activities

Musicologist, music critic, Honored Worker of Arts of the Russian Federation,Cand. Sc in Art Studies, Professor of the Department of History and Theory of Music and Music and Performing Arts of the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts - GITIS.

Education and career

• Since 2009 to 2016 - Rector of the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts - GITIS.

Research interests

Candidate's dissertation: Traditions and Innovation in the Symphonic Works of O. Messiaen (1976).

Awards and Prizes

• Awarded with the highest departmental award of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation For contribution to Russian culture (2016).

Professional activities

Teacher, theatre figure, PhD in Art History.

Education and career

• Graduate of GITIS (teachers - M. Butkevich and A. Vasiliev).
• Worked as a director in many theatres of the USSR.
• Started his teaching career in 1989 at the theatre "School of Dramatic Art" and at the directing department of GITIS.
• Since 1992 -  has been working at universities and major theatre schools in Europe, South and North America.
• In 1995 - organized AKT-ZENT in Berlin - a research center for theatre education.
• Since 1998 -  has headed the European Network of Theatre Laboratories - ENTL..
• Since 1999 - under his leadership, the international festival of theatre trainings - METODIKA has been held, in which outstanding directors and teachers from different countries take part.

Professional activities

Theatre scholar, theatre critic. Dr. Sc in Art Studies

Education and career

• Head of the Department of History of Foreign Theatre at the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts – GITIS.
• Chief researcher of the Sector of Contemporary Western Art at the State Institute for Art Studies.
• Chairman of the Shakespeare Commission under the Council on World Culture Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Research interests

• History of world theatre,
• English theatre of the 20th century, history of Shakespeare interpretation in modern theatre.

Social activities

Combines research and teaching work with practical activities, taking an active part in the development of the Russian theatre:

• In 1987–1991 was the secretary of the Union of Theatre Workers of the USSR, vice-president of the Committee for Theatre Education at MIT.
• In 2008 and 2011 — the Chairman of the jury of the Russian National Prize and the Golden Mask Festival in the nomination of Drama Theatre and Puppet Theatre. 
• Regularly publishes critical articles on theatre issues in periodicals and is a jury member at many theatre festivals.
• Since the mid-1990s  has hosted his own series of popular science programmes on television about Shakespeare and English theatre.

Awards and Prizes

• The Honored Scholar of the Russian Federation.
• The Laureate of the K. S. Stanislavsky Prize, the Chaika Theatre Prize, the Moscow Prize, the Teatral Prize, etc.

Professional activities

Producer, People's Artist of Russia, Professor, Honored Worker of Art of the Russian Federation.

Education and career

• Graduated from the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts - GITIS (workshop of People's Artist of the USSR Professor G. P. Ansimov).
• In 1990, he founded the Moscow Music Theatre  "Helikon-Opera". Director of about 110 performances both in "Helikon-Opera" and in other Russian and foreign theatres. Dmitry Bertman has been repeatedly awarded with the theatre prizes "Golden Mask", "Nail of the Season", the International Award n.a. K. S. Stanislavsky, the Government of Moscow Award.
• Since 2003, D. Bertman is the head of the department of directing and acting skills of the music theatre of the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts - GITIS.

Social activities

• In 2018 - became a member of the Presidential Council for Culture and Arts.

Awards and Prizes

• Awarded with the Medal of Friendship, officer of the French medal "The Order of Academic Palms"
• Awarded with  the Maltese Cross and the title of Count of the Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem, the Knights of Rhodes and Malta Ecumenical,
• the Laureate of the Award n.a. K. S. Stanislavsky in the nomination "Directing Art",
• Awarded with  the Moscow City Prize for his significant contribution to musical culture,
• The Knight of the Estonian Order of the Cross of the Land of Mary, the Laureate of the Estonian State Prize,
• Awarded with the badge of distinction "For impeccable service to the city of Moscow",
• Awarded with the Certificate of Honor of the Moscow State Duma "For services to the city community",
• Awarded with the Order "For services to the Kaliningrad Region",
• Awarded with "The Order of Honor" for the great contribution to the development of national culture and art, and many years of fruitful activity. 
• Awarded with the medal "For Contribution to the Development of Music Culture" (Russian Performing Arts Foundation)
• The Laureate of the "Keeper of Memory" award, given to the outstanding people who have made a special contribution to preserving the memory of the Holocaust,
• Awarded with  a letter of gratitude from the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation for his great contribution to the Year of Theatre in the Russian Federation (2019).

Professional activities

Professor of the Philological Faculty of the St. Petersburg State University,
Dr. Sc. in Philology

Education and career

Visiting professor:

2002–2007 – University of Salzburg (Austria);

2007 – State University of New York (USA);

2011–2013 – Kabardino-Balkarian State University (Russia);

2013 – American University of Ras al-Khaimah (UAE);

2013 – University of Warsaw (Poland);

2015 – University of Helsinki (Finland);

2019 – Tallinn University (Estonia)

Research interests

Doctoral dissertation: Artistic narrative and structures of experience: the plot of transition in modern Russian literature (2012).

Main publications

Bugaeva L. D. Literature and rite de passage. SPb.: Petropolis, 2010.
Bugaeva L. D. Gerasimov vs. Dovzhenko: Dismantling Attractions, Documentary and the Truth of Life // Second All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers. Ideology of historical transition and transformation of Soviet literature. 1954: collective monograph / ed. V. Yu. Vyugin; compiled by K. A. Bogdanov, V. Yu. SPb.: Aleteya, 2018. Pp. 408–427.
Bugaeva L. D. Underwater World of Soviet Utopia: Alexander Belyaev // Russian literature: problems, phenomena, constants / ed. E. Tyszkowska-Kaspshak, & A. Pashkevich. Wroclaw–Saint Petersburg–Krakow: Scriptum, 2018. Pp. 155–165.

Professional activities

Dr. Sc in Philology

Education and career

Associate Professor of the Department of History of Russian Literature of the St. Petersburg University.

Research interests

Doctoral dissertation: Andrey Platonov: the Poetics of the Mistery. (Essay on the Formation and Evolution of Style) (2004).

Main publications

The Politics of Poetics: Essays from the History of Soviet Literature. St. Petersburg: Aleteya, 2014.
Andrey Platonov: the Poetics of Mistery. (Essay on the Formation and Evolution of Style). St. Petersburg: Publishing house of the Russian Chemistry Institute, 2004.

Professional activities

Chief researcher, Dr. Sc. in Philology, Professor.

Education and career

Professor of the Department of Russian Literature of Tomsk State Pedagogical University.
Since 2002 – the head of the scientific direction of the Department of Russian Literature of the 20th century and World Art Culture “Transformation and functioning of cultural models in Russian literature”.

Research interests

History of Russian literature, non-classical poetics of Russian literature of the 20th-21st centuries,
Epic drama, problems of the comic;
Discoveries in the dramaturgy of A. S. Pushkin, A. V. Sukhovo-Kobylin, A. P. Chekhov, M. Gorky;
Lyrics and drama of V. Mayakovsky, poetics of the plays by E. Schwartz, N. Erdman, M. Bulgakov;
Author's models of the plays by S. Tretyakov, G. Gorin, A. Gelman, V. Aksenov, I. Brodsky, V. Maksimov, A. Vampilov, N. Moshina, etc.

Doctoral dissertation: Epic drama in Russian literature of the 20th century (1995).

Main publications

"The Epic Theatre of Evgeny Schwartz" (1991),
"The Epic Drama in Russian Literature of the 20th Century" (2001, 2008),
"The Comic in the Plays of M. Bulgakov of the 1920s" (co-author T. L. Vesnina).

Professional activities

Film scholar, film critic, film historian,Dr. Sc in Art Studies

Education and career

Worked as a research fellow in the sector of sociology of arts of the Institute of Art History (1973–1987).

In 1987–1991 – the member of the organizing committee of the Society of Friends of Cinema (SFC) and the president of the Federation of Film Clubs.
In 1991–1992 – the president of the Russian Public Academy.

From 1992 to 1994 – the chief specialist of the International Foundation for the Development of Cinema and Television for Children and Youth (Rolan Bykov Foundation).

Director of cultural and creative programs of the Vyborg Film Festival (1994–1995), the International human rights film festival "Stalker" (1995–1999), the Student film festival "Saint Anna" (1995–2001), youth programs of the Moscow International Film Festival (1995–1999).
Since the 1980s - the leader of  a program of "club" screenings of Alexander Sokurov's films.

In March 2001 -  headed the youth policy department at the Union of Cinematographers of Russia.

Research interests

Doctoral dissertation: Cinema of the Silver Age and the Problems of Cultural and National Self-Determination of Cinema (2007).

Social activities

Member of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia
Member of the Association of Film Education and Media Pedagogy of Russia

Awards and Prizes

The Laureate of the Guild of Film Scholars and Film Critics of Russia (2005).

Main publications

Has been publishing researches on cinema since the 1970s. Published in scientific digests, journals and newspapers:

• Art of Cinema,
• Soviet Screen,
• Kinovedcheskie Zapiski and others,
• Kultura,
• Screen and Stage,
• SK-Novosti and others.

Author of books:

• Abram Room. M., 1977.
• Soviet Film Directing: History, Modernity, Problems and Names. M., 1982.
• Fundamentals of Cinematography. M., 1984.
• Cinema as a Means of Aesthetic Education. M., 1986.
• Cinema of the Silver Age. M., 2005

Professional activities

Theatre critic, Dr. Sc in Art Studies, professor.

Education and career

In 1952 graduated from the Leningrad Choir School at the Academic Chapel.
Until 1957  taught music and led choirs.

In 1957  graduated from the Theatre studies department of LGITMiK, worked as the head of the Literary department of the Leningrad Youth Theatre, as a senior research fellow in the theatre Sector of LGITMiK (1963-1978), taught at  training courses, and supervised graduate students.

In 1966 organized a sociological laboratory for the study of theatre spectators at LGITMiK.

In 1968, with a group of specialists from the Institute of Socio-Economic Problems,  organized a research group "Sociology and Theatre" at the Leningrad branch of the All-Russian Society of Theatre Aсtors, and headed it for ten years.

Since 1978 - senior research fellow, later - leading employee of the State Institute for Art Studies.

Taught at the Higher Courses for Advanced Studies in Culture.

Since 1991 – the Head of the Department of Cultural History at the Academy of Choral Art.

Professor of the Department of Performing Arts Management at GITIS.

Research interests

Life and work of F. I. Shalyapin.
Doctoral dissertation: Theatre, Spectator, Criticism: Problems of Social Functioning (1991).

Social activities

• Academician of the International Informatization Academy
• Academician of the Humanitarian Sciences Academy.

Main publications

Author of about 300 publications, including 16 monographs on the history, theory, sociology of theatre,  Russian theatre and artistic life.

Professional activities

Theatre director, teacher, the Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, the Head of the Drama Directing Department, professor at the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts – GITIS, the laureate of the State Prize of Russia, artistic director of the  Studio of Theatre Art.

Education and career

In 1979 graduated from the directing department of the Krasnodar Institute of Culture. Headed the Krasnodar Youth Amateur Theatre.

In 1983 entered the directing department of GITIS (course of P. N. Fomenko), after graduating in 1988 began teaching at the directing department.

Since 1988 to 1991 Sergey Zhenovach was a director at the Chelovek Theatre Studio.

Since 1991 to 1998 - director at the Theatre on Malaya Bronnaya (since 1996 - chief director).

Since 2001 to the present day, Sergey Zhenovach has been the artistic director of the joint training workshop for directors and actors at the Directing department of GITIS, and since 2004, the Head of the Drama directing department.

In November 2004, Sergey Zhenovach and his students staged the play The Boys based on 9 chapters of Fedor Dostoevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov.

In the spring of 2005, Sergey Zhenovach and his students, GITIS graduates, held a festival of the course's diploma works  Six Performances Waiting for the Theatre and announced the creation of the theatre Studio of Theatre Art.  Sergey Zhenovach is the artistic director of this theatre up to this day.

Awards and Prizes

• Prize named after Stanislavsky (for directing, 1997)
• National Theatre Award Golden Mask  for the performance Truth is good, but happiness is better (special jury prize For the best ensemble, 2002
• State Prize of the Russian Federation in the sphere of literature and art (for directing, 2004)
• Crystal Turandot award for the performance The Boys (for directing, 2004)
• Prize named after Stanislavsky – (“for the revival of the studio spirit”, 2005)
• National Theatre Award Golden Mask  for the performance A Decayed Family (best director’s work; best small-scale production, 2006)
• Nail of the Season award (A Decayed Family  – best performance of the 2005–2006 season)
• National Theatre Award Golden Mask  for the performance The Battle of Life (best small-scale production, 2008)
• National Theatre Award Golden Mask  for the performance The Potudan River (best small-scale production, 2009)
• A. Solzhenitsyn Prize (“for devoted service to Russian theatre and inspired translation of world literary classics into the language of the stage; for educating audiences in the spirit of demanding love for Theatre and Books”, 2015)

Research interests

• Russian theatre of the 20th century, publishing work.

Social activities

• member of the editorial board of the Art Studies journal (since 1997 to the present)
• member of the editorial board of the international journal Ari dello spettacolo / Performing arts (Rome, University Tor Vergata) (publishing since February 2016)
• Deputy Chairman of the Academic Council of the Scientific Library of the STD of the Russian Federation (since 1996 to the present)
• Chairman of the reference and bibliographic work section of the Scientific Library of the STD of the Russian Federation (since 1996 to the present)
• member of the Academic Council of the State Central Theatre Museum named after A. A. Bakhrushin (since 2010 to the present)
• member of the expert council on art criticism of the Russian Foundation for the Humanities/Russian Foundation for Basic Research (since 2013 to the present).

Awards and Prizes

• Theatre Novel Prize for the fifth and sixth issues of the almanac Mnemosyne. Documents and Facts from the History of Russian Theatre of the 20th Century (Moscow: Indrik, 2014). State Central Theatre Museum named after A. A. Bakhrushin, 2016
• International Stanislavsky Prize in the nomination Theatre Studies for a series of historical and theatrical works in the almanac Mnemosyne. Documents and Facts from the History of Russian Theatre of the 20th Century (2010)
• A Certificate of Gratitude from the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation for a great contribution to the development of culture and many years of fruitful work (2010)
• Moscow City Government Prize for the monograph Russian Seasons of the Habima Theatre (Moscow: Actor. Director. Theatre, 1999) in the nomination Art Criticism (2005).
• Prize of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation for the monograph Russian Seasons of the Habima Theatre (Moscow: ART, 1999) (2000).

Main publications

• Russian Seasons of the Habima Theatre. Moscow: ART, 1999. – 317 p., ill.
• GOSET: Politics and Art. Moscow: GITIS, 2007. – 464 p., ill.

Professional activities

Doctor of Art History, Chief Researcher of the Department of Cinema and Contemporary Art of the Faculty of Art History of the Russian State University for the Humanities, Head of the project The Phenomenon of "Realism" in the Fine Arts of the 19th-21st Centuries: Interpretations, Meanings, Images.

Research interests

The topic of the doctoral dissertation: The Main Problems of the Evolution of Russian Sculpture of the Late 19th - Early 20th Century in the Context of the Relationship between the Moscow and St. Petersburg Schools (2012).

Main publications

• Golubkina, Konenkov and Some Issues of the Development of Russian Sculpture of the New Time: Articles, Materials, Reports. Moscow: Galart, 2015.
• Moscow Lions / Tatyana Doronina, Anna Zavyalova, Olga Kalugina. Moscow: BuksMArt, 2017.
• Russian Sculpture of the Silver Age: A Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow. M.: Buksmart, 2013.
• Sculptor Anna Golubkina: an experience of a comprehensive study of creative destiny. M.: Galart, 2006

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Professional activities

Russian poet and philologist, Zabolotsky scholar. Doctor of Philology, professor of the Department of Liberal Arts of the Saratov State Conservatory named after L. V. Sobinov.

Research interests

Doctoral dissertation topic: Metamorphoses of the Christian code in the poetry of N. Zabolotsky and A. Tarkovsky (2009).

Main publications

Author of 3 monographs, as well as a number of articles devoted to the works of:

• OBERIU poets,
• N. A. Zabolotsky,
• A. A. Tarkovsky,
• V. F. Khodasevich,
• V. V. Nabokov,
• F. M. Dostoevsky,
• philosopher F. A. Stepun
• philosopher S. L. Frank and others.

Professional activities

Doctor of Art History, Senior Researcher of the Sector of Art of the Modern and Contemporary History of the State Institute for Art Studies.

Research interests

•  Russian and European architectural graphics of the 17th-18th centuries,
• theatrical architecture,
• scenography of the court theatre of the Baroque and Enlightenment eras,
• architectural theory,
• garden and glass architecture of the 17th-18th centuries.

Topic of doctoral dissertation: Architectural Decoration of the Court Theatre of the 17th-18th Centuries. Mythology and Iconography (2013).

Main publications

• Korndorf A. S. Palaces of the Chimera. Illusory Architecture and Political Allusions of the Court Scene. Moscow: Progress-Tradition, 2011.

Professional activities

Professional activities Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, Doctor of Art History, Professor at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory. (Moscow, Russia) 

Education and career

• In 1970, N. Kuznetsov graduated with honors from the Russian Institute of Theatre Art – GITIS (workshop of Professor B. A. Pokrovsky).
• In 1977, N. Kuznetsov was invited to teach acting at the Department of Opera Training at the Moscow Conservatory, where he has been working up to nowadays ( professor since 2005).

Research interests

The topic of doctoral dissertation - Stagecraft of an Opera Artist in the Context of the Acting School of F. I. Chaliapin (2005).

Main publications

N. I. Kuznetsov is the author of a number of publications in the field of art studies:

• S. I. Mamontov, F. I. Chaliapin and K. S. Stanislavsky – Reformers of the Opera Art in Russia (1996)
• Monograph Thought and Word in the Work of an Opera Actor. (2004)

Professional activities

Theatre historian, researcher of Russian culture. Doctor of Art History, Professor.

Education and career

Graduated from the Department of Theatre Studies at the Lunacharsky State Institute of Theatre Arts (1980). -Worked for the journal Theatre Life and as a theatre columnist for the literary and art journal Moscow.

Studied at the postgraduate department of GITIS (scientific advisor – B. N. Aseev).

Defended her doctoral dissertation in 1997 - Russian Theatre Abroad as a Cultural and Historical Phenomenon (Russian Theatres and Studios in Western Europe and the USA: 1920s - 1940s - Teaching at GITIS since 1984. - Teaching at the History Department of Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Interned at the scientific institutions in Europe.:

• Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Berlin),
• Maison des Sciences d’Homme, INALCO (Paris).

Research interests

• The history of Russian theatre in the late 19th and first third of the 20th centuries,
• Theatre of the Russian Abroad, and dialogue of cultures.

Social activities

• Member of the Union of Theatre Workers of the Russian Federation, 
• Member of the International Union of Journalists, 
• Member of the International Scientific Societies of Theatre Researchers.
• Academician (full member) of the Academy of Humanities (St. Petersburg) (1998).

Main publications

The author of 6 monographs, more than 100 articles, chapters in textbooks and collective works. Published abroad. Member of the editorial board and the author of the Theatre section in the fundamental project Essays on the History of Russian Culture at the Turn of the 19th – 20th Centuries

Monographs:

• Alla Nazimova's American Gardens, Moscow, 1995. 
• Russian Theatrical Paris: 20 Years Between the Wars. St. Petersburg, 2003. 
• Yavorskaya, the Lawless Comet, Moscow, 2008. 
• Alla Nazimova's American Gardens. New Version. Moscow: Dialog kultury, 2012 – 288p. 
• Ten Lives. Unknown Persons of Russian Theatre Pedagogy Abroad. The training manual. Moscow: GITIS, 2016 – 324p. 
• From the Silver Age to the Russian Abroad. Chekhov & Nabokov. Drama. Moscow: GITIS, 2018-213 p.

Sections and chapters in collective works, textbooks:

• Private theatres in Moscow and St. Petersburg // Russian Drama Theatre of the Late 19th - Early 20th Century. Textbook. Moscow: GITIS, 2000. (collective work). 
• The Theatre of the Soviet period. Chapters. // The History of the Russian Drama Theatre from its Origins to the End of the Twentieth Century. Textbook. Moscow: GITIS – Akademiya, 2005, ed.2nd edition. Moscow: GITIS, 2009.
• Chekhov in English Criticism and Literary Criticism. (in collaboration with M. A. Shereshevskaya)// Chekhov and World Literature. "Literary Heritage", vol. 100. Moscow: Nauka Publ., 1998. 
• Theater fur Andere, ein Leben fur Sich. Die Russische Schauspieler Boheme im Berlin der Zwanziger Jahre. || Sturmlische Aufbruche und enttauschte Hoffnungen. Russen und Deutsche in der Zwischenkriegzeit. Band 2. Munchen, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2006. 
• A. P. Chekhov's Dramaturgy ( articles about his separate works)//Encyclopedia of literary works. Textbook. Moscow: Agraf, 1998. 
• Contemporary Russian Theatre. (22 articles about the masters of the theatre of modern Russia)// Who's Who ib Contemporary Theatre. Encyclopaedia. Lnd- N.Y.-Toronto, Routlerdge, 2000 (2nd ed.- 2002). 
• The American Acting and the "Russian method". Richard Boleslavsky and his New York "Laboratory Theatre" // Mnemosyne. Documents and facts from the history of the Russian theatre of the twentieth century. Issue 2. Moscow: URSS, 2000.  

Professional activities

Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, Doctor of Art History, Head of the Ancient Russian Art Sector at the State Institute for Art Studies.

Education and career

Doctoral dissertation: Essays on the History of Painting in Ancient Pskov. XIII — early XV century, 2005.

Research interests

• Ancient Russian and Byzantine art: monumental painting, icon painting, plastic art of the 9th—15th centuries.

Social activities

• Member of the Editorial Board of the History of Russian Art in 22 volumes. Executive Secretary of the federal project History of Russian Art in 22 volumes, since 2001.  
• Member of the Presidium of the Scientific and Methodological Council for the Protection and Restoration of Immovable Cultural Monuments of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation;
• Member of the Editorial Board of Art Studies digests; 
• Member of the Editorial Board of the Sobranie journal; 
• Member of the Academic Council of the Central Museum of Ancient Russian Culture and Art. n.a. Andrey Rublev; 
• Member of the Commission of the Ministry of Culture on especially valuable objects of the Russian cultural heritage. 

Main publications

• Monumental Painting of Novgorod of the 14–15 centuries. Moscow, publishing house "Art", 1987. 
• Essays on the History of Pskov Painting. The Middle of the 13th– the Beginning of the 15th Century. The Formation of a Local Art Tradition. Moscow, ed. Severniy Palomnik, 2004. 
• Russian Art of the 10th–17th Centuries (Mikhail Allenov, Lev Lifshits. The History of Russian Art in 2 Volumes). Moscow, ed. Beliy Gorod, 2007. Vol. 1.

Professional activities

Doctor of Art History, Professor of the Department of Dramatic Cinema at the Russian State University of Cinematography n.a. S. Gerasimov (VGIK). The screenwriter.

Education and career

Graduated from the Scriptwriting department of VGIK in 2002 (workshop of Arabov Yu. N.). Teaches the following disciplines at VGIK.

• Theory of film drama,
• Problems of film adaptation,
• Workshop on film drama.

Wrote scripts to the films:

• Petition for Pardon, 
• White Pack, Farmazon's Solitaire, 
• A Gentle Creature, 
• Glass Boat, 
• Black Earth Blood, 
• A birthday as a present.

Awards and Prizes

Winner of special prizes at Russian and international film festivals.

Main publications

• Nonlinear Film Time,
• Cultural Memory in a Cinematic Work.

Professional activities

PhD in Artistic Education, Professor, University of Diyala, Baquba, Iraq.

Education and career

• Head of the Department of Art Education for seven years, Dean of the College of Fine Arts - University of Diyala since 2021.
• Chairman of the Committee of Deans of Faculties of Fine Arts in Iraq.
• Chairman of the Committee of Experts of Faculties of Fine Arts in Iraq.
• Member of the American Art Education Association (NAEA).

Research interests

The effect of a training program for perception and organization skills on the development of
creative thinking among a sample of students Primary stage; The effect of some computer
applications on developing visual perception among fourth grade primary students; The effect of
using Jordan’s model on developing the creative abilities of a sample of Diyala University
students; Designing an educational program to train female students of the kindergarten
department at Diyala University on some technical skills; Characteristics of fees for the mentally
retarded Mongolian class; Systems style: an introduction to instructional design technology
(designing a training module); Obstacles to implementing some e-learning systems in Iraq; The
role of systems technology in activating teaching methods; Education and the technology of the
twenty-first century (effects of globalization); The relationship of artistic expression patterns to
innovative capabilities; Characteristics of elementary school fees and their relationship to their
self-concept; Internet and cultural resistance; Aesthetic education between the connotation of the
term and the originality of the concept; Children and the computer; Obstacles to teaching artistic
expression among students of Diyala University; The digital age and the mechanisms of religious
discourse.

Professional activities

Doctor of Art History, Professor of the Department of Contemporary Music at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory (since 2010).

Education and career

• In 1979 graduated with honors from the Perm Music College (music theory). - In 1983 graduated from the Faculty of History and Theory of Music of the Ural Mussorgsky State Conservatory.
• From 1987 to 1991 - studied at the postgraduate school of the Moscow Conservatory with a degree in Music Art.
• In 1983-198 taught the history of Russian and Soviet music at the Krasnoyarsk Institute of Arts. 
• Teaching at the Moscow Conservatory since 1997, Associate Professor since 1999, and Professor of the Department of Contemporary Music since 2010. 
• Since 1991 has been published in periodicals. 
• From 1999 to 2001 was the editor of Ballet journal. 
• Since 2006 has been a columnist, and from 2009 to the present, is the editor of the cultural department of the Izvestia newspaper. 
• In 2010, defended her doctoral thesis Balanchine and Stravinsky. To the Problem of Music and Choreographic Interaction.

The author of the programs of the course Music Culture of the Ballet for the Faculty of History and Theory of the Moscow Conservatory, as well as Theatre of Modern Ballet for the Faculty of Composition of the Moscow Conservatory.

Research interests

• Opera, ballet, and drama theatres, the history and theory of art criticism, and art synthesis. 

Main publications

Author of more than 2000 articles, interviews, and reports.

Author of the monograph:

• Balanchine and Stravinsky: To See the Music, To Hear the Dance (2010).

Professional activities

PhD, Assisting Professor in the University of Veliko Turnovo “St. Cyril and St. Methodius” (Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria)

Education and career

ОRCID: 0000-0001-5535-7224

Research interests

Russian drama of the second half of the 19th century, semiotics of drama and theatre,
dramaturgy of Anton Chekhov, theatre criticism, mathematical and computer methods in literary criticism, frequency dictionaries, connections between cinema and literature.

PhD thesis topic: TThe Subject Code in A. P. Chekhov's Dramaturgy" (2007).

Social activities

• Head of the project Leo Tolstoy in 21st Century Culture (2017-2018), coordinator of the project
• Europe reads Chekhov (2009 – 2012), member of the research groups of the projects
• Russian–Bulgarian historical and cultural interaction: from the past to the present 2013
• (Russkiy Mir Foundation project No. 2011/I-450) and the Russian-Bulgarian Translation Corps (2008-2011, Veliko Tarnovo University).

Main publications

• Topos city in Bulgarian Prose of the 1960s - structure and mifopoetics. Apostille-Slavic
• Almanac 2022. - Ed. 1-2 / edited yK. V. Nikiforov. - M. Indrik, 2022. —P. 265 – 279.
• The Man of the 60s-Bulgarian-Croatian Parallels. Preliminary remarks / / Apostille. 2022. № 1. P. 181–189 DOI:10.15170/SV.1/2022.181
• Gender and Space in Literature and Cinema (Roads to Nowhere by Bogomil Raynovaand White Room by Metodi Andonov)//Slavica, 2021. Vol. 50. P.183-190. DOI: 10.31034.
• Features of Color in Soviet Cinema of the 1960s.- Visual Studies / / Journal of Contemporary
Art. 2018. № 2. P. 65 – 72
• Novel War and Peace by L.N. Tolstoy and Format TV Series . Reception of personality and
• Works of Leo Tolstoy: a collective monograph./ comp. and scientific. editor L. Well. Bushcan. Kazan: Ed. Of Kazan University, 2017. P. 354 - 367
• Map of Africa in Chekhov’s Theatre at the break of 20-21 st Centuries. // STUDIA SLAVICA SAVARIENSIA. Vol, XI. № 1-2. Nemzetközi Szlavisztikai Napok, Szombathely. 2016. № 1-2. P. 333-340.
• Semiotics of Suicides in Laurenza Quanzdan’s Film Great Disappointment / / New Literary Review. 2014. №6 (130). P. 88 – 93.
• Between Life and Being (A Hero and a Thing in the Dramaturgy of A.P. Chekhov) - V. Tarnovo: University Publishing House, 2008, 272 P.

Professional activities

Art historian, Doctor of Art History.

Education and career

• Ural State University (Yekaterinburg). Faculty of Art History. (1993)
• Scientific Research Institute of Theory and History of Art of the Russian Academy of Arts (Moscow) – full-time postgraduate study and thesis defense for the degree of Candidate of Art History. Topic: Images of Ballet in Russian Art of the Late 19th and Early 20th centuries (Problems of Interpretation and Interrelation of the Arts). (2003) 
• Doctoral studies at Moscow State Pedagogical University in the Department of the History of Art Culture (2007). 
• Defense of a thesis for the degree of Doctor of Art History at the Research Institute of Theory and History of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the topic Problems of Interaction Between Ballet and Plastic Arts in Russian Art Culture of the Late 19th- Early 20th Centuries (2009).

Academician of the International European Academy, Petrovsky Academy of Arts and Sciences, Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Corresponding Member of the International Academy of Culture and Art, Honorary Doctor (doctor of science, honoris causa) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Honored Scientist and Educator. 

Research interests

• Theory and history of foreign and Russian art
• Creative challenges of visual arts and design 
• Analysis and interpretation of works of art - World art heritage (museum and private collections). 
• The history of art styles
• Scientific research methods 
• The topic of the doctoral thesis: Problems of Interaction Between Ballet and Plastic Arts in Russian Art Culture of the Late 19th- Early 20th Centuries (2009). 

Social activities

• Member of the Association of Art Scholars,
• Member of the International Association of Art Critics (France), 
• Member of the Moscow Union of Artists (Art Studies section),
• Member of The International Art Foundation,
• Member of the Union of Theatre Workers of the Russian Federation.

Professional activities

PhD in Theory and History of Dramatic Performance (1993, Universitа Cattolica del Sacro
Cuore, Milan, Italy).

Education and career

Researcher (1998), Assisting Professor (2004), Professor (2017-2022) in the University of Padua, Department of Linguistics and Literature

Lecturer of the courses:

• Methodology and Critics of Performance – University of Padova, Italy, 1999- 2017;
• Languages and Methodologies of Creative Performance with Educational Intent – University of Padova, Italy, 2002-2005;
• Languages and Methodologies of Theatre and Performance – University of Padova, Italy, 2004- 2009;
• Workshop on Expressive Techniques and Theatre – University of Padova, Italy, 2004-2008;
• History of Theatre and Performance, with a Theatrical Workshop – University of Padova,Italy, 2008-2014;
• Methodology of Theatre and Performance – University of Padova, Italy, 2009-2018;
• History of Dance – University of Padova, Italy, 2013-2022

Since 2023 - works in the University of Bologna, Department of the Arts.

Lecturer of the courses:

• History and Practices of Directing - University of Bolognia, Italy, 2023-2024
•  History of Directing - University of Bolognia, Italy, 2023-2024

Reviewer for the scientific journals Il castello di Elsinore, Teatro e Storia, Comunicazioni
Sociali, Danza e Ricerca, Mimesis Journal, Arti dello Spettacolo/Performing Arts.

Editor-in-chief of series of scientific works Saggi e Materiali Universitari – Series on History of Theatre (Padova: Esedra, 2004- 2018), Pagine di danza. (Benevento: Kinethis, 2021-2023)

Editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Danza e ricerca. Laboratorio di studi, scritture, visioni, University of Bologna (since 2019)

ОRCID: 0000-0002-0342-0428

Professional activities

Art critic, cultural scholar, Doctor of Cultural Studies.

Education and career

Head of the Department of Artistic Problems of Mass Media at the State Institute for Art Studies. 

Doctoral thesis topic: The Phenomenon of Visuality and the Evolution of Visual Culture (2012)

Research interests

• visual culture, silent films 
• popular cinema of the Soviet period, 
• media environment, 
• everyday culture, 
• aesthetics of screen arts.

Awards and Prizes

• Winner of the prize of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation For the best research to a young scientist (2000);
• The prize of the annual competition of the State Institute for Art Studies in the nomination The best monograph of the Year in 2002 for the monograph Aesthetics of Advertising. Cultural Roots and Leitmotifs;
• Diploma of the Russian Academy of Arts for the scientific monograph Visual Culture in the Media Environment. Modern Trends and Historical Insights (2018);

Main publications

• Aesthetics of Advertising. Cultural Roots and Leitmotifs. St. Petersburg: Aleteya Publ., 2001.
• Soviet Culture in Motion: from the mid-1930s to the mid-1980s. Visual Images, Characters, Plots. Moscow: URSS, 2008, 2010. 
• The Phenomenon of the Visual. From Ancient Origins to the Beginning of the 21st Century. Moscow: Progress-Tradition, 2012. (monograph published under a grant from the Russian National Science Foundation). 
• Visual Culture in the Media Environment. Historical Insights and Modern Trends. Moscow: Progress-Tradition, 2017. (monograph published under a grant from the Russian National Science Foundation).

Professional activities

Literary historian, folklorist, culture historian.

Education and career

• Graduated from Tver State University (1973).
• Candidate of Philological Sciences (1982), Doctor of Philology (1991), Professor (1993).
• Worked at Tver State University (1975-2015), the State Republican Center of Russian Folklore (2012-2015). 
• Since 2015, Professor of the Department of General and Slavic Art Studies at the A. N. Kosygin Russian State University (Technology. Design. Art).
• Leading researcher at the Literary Heritage Department at IMLI RAS (since 2018).

Visiting Professor at the following universities:

• Freiburg (Germany), 
• Tampere (Finland), 
• Veliko Tarnovo (Bulgaria),
• Grodno (Belarus),
• Samara, 
• Veliky Novgorod, 
• Kursk, 
• Novosibirsk, 
• Lipetsk.

Since 1997 - the head and executor of a number of grant projects of the Russian Humanitarian Science Foundation (RHSF).

Social activities

Member of the Pushkin Commission of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Main publications

Publishing since 1978. Compiler and editor of a number of scientific publications, the author of more than 600 articles and books, among them:

• Historical Roots of the Folklore Genres: A Monograph. Moscow: A. N. Kosygin Russian State University, 2019. 175 p.
• Current Issues of Folk Art Culture: A Monograph. Issue 1: Folklore and Mass Culture. Moscow: A. N. Kosygin Russian State University, 2020. 172 p., ill. In co-authorship. 
• Paradoxes of Culture: Works from Different Years. St. Petersburg: Rostock, 2022. 402 p., ill. 
• Russian Counting Rhymes. Genre, Typology, Index of Plots: Research and Texts. Moscow: Gorky Literary Institute, 2022. 536 p. "Library of the House of National Literatures". 
• Novinki Estate and Nikolay Tolstoy / The edition was prepared by E. V. Pavlova, M. V. Stroganov. Tver: SFK-Office, 2022. 416 p., ill. Zavidov readings. Issue 7. 
• Tver Region after Pushkin: Essays on Pushkin's Local History. Tver: SFK-Office, 2023. 368 p., ill. Zavidov readings. Issue 8.

Professional activities

Theatre critic, Doctor of Art History, Professor, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.

Education and career

• Head of the Ibero-American Art Sector at the State Institute for Art Studies. -Head of the Department of Art Studies at the Moscow Art Theatre Studio, Professor at the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts – GITIS,
• Member of the Board and member of the Jury of the K. S. Stanislavsky International Foundation.

Deputy Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Golden Leaf Theatre Award from 2006 to the present. 

Research interests

• theatre and literature of Spain and Latin America from the Middle Ages to Modern times, - modern Russian and foreign theatre.

Doctoral thesis topic: Spanish Theatre of the Twentieth Century, 1984. 

Awards and Prizes

• K. S. Stanislavsky International Foundation Award, 2000; 
• Moscow City Prize in the nomination Art Studies, 2013.

Main publications

• Spanish Theatre of the Twentieth Century. Moscow, 1982. 
• Federico Garcia Lorca: the Poet's Drama, Moscow, 1990.
• Spanish Theatre of the 16th – 17th Centuries. Moscow, 1993.
• Lifestyle and Art Styles. The Spanish Theatre of Mannerism and Baroque. Moscow, 2000.
• Theatre of the Golden Age. Moscow, 2012.

Professional activities

Doctor of Architecture, Professor (Moscow, Russia) 

Education and career

Professor at the Moscow State Institute of Architecture named after V. I. Surikov and MGSU, member of the Union of Moscow Architects since 1974. 

Lecturer on the following subjects:

• The history and theory of architecture, 
• Actual problems of modern architecture.

Works with graduate students.

Awards and Prizes

Awarded the diploma of the Golden Section (2017).

Main publications

Published several textbooks, manuals, monographs on the history of architecture, design

Professional activities

Theatre scholar, philosopher, Doctor of Art History

Education and career

Head of the Classical Western Art Sector at the State Institute for Art Studies. 

He has been working at SIAS since 2000 (in 2000-2004, Senior researcher at the Department of Classical Art of the West; 

in 2004-2006, Head of the Department of Historical Sociology of Art; in 2007-2013, Director of the Institute). 

Professor at the Department of History of Foreign Theatre at the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts – GITIS; 

Assistant Director for Creative Affairs at the State Academic Theatre named after E. Vakhtangov; Secretary of the Union of Theatre Workers of the Russian Federation.

Research interests

• classical theatre (ancient and new European); 
• history and theory of theatre; 
• ancient mythology, art and literature;
• social and economic aspects of art in history; philosophy and aesthetics;
• tradition and the avant-garde;
• interpretation of classical themes, images, and plots in cultural history.

Doctoral thesis topic: The Roman Comedy of the Cloak: Time, Space, Action (State Institute for Art Studies, 2006).

Awards and Prizes

• Letters of thanks from the President of the Russian Federation - Moscow Prize in Literature and Art - Medal of the Intersectoral Joint Committee on Awards For strengthening the authority of Russian science - National Award of Film Criticism and Film Press White Elephant for the TV program Critic (channel Kultura), host Dmitry Trubochkin – the best TV show about cinema in 2015
• Winner of the national television contest TEFI-2009 in the nomination Program about Art (series of programs The Color of Time) 
• Certificate of Honor from the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation 
• Certificate of Honor from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation 
• Acknowledgements from the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation, etc.

Main publications

• Konstantin Raikin and the Satyricon Theatre. Moscow: EKSMO, 2021. - Ancient Greek Theatre. Moscow: Pamyatniki Istoricheskoi Misli, 2016. 
• Rimas Tuminas. Moscow Performances. Moscow: "Theatralis", 2015.
• Arkady Raikin Theatre. The Experience of Understanding. Moscow: SIAS, 2011.
• Ancient Literature and Drama. Moscow: SIAS, 2010. 
• "It's okay! The Elder dances...": The Roman Comedy of the Cloak in Action. Moscow: GITIS, 2005.

Professional activities

Professional activities Theatre critic,D. Sc in Art Studies

Education and career

• Professor at the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts 
• GITIS, Researcher at the Sector of Contemporary Western Art at the State Institute for Art Studies. 
• Since 1976, has been working at the Department of the History of Foreign Theatre at the Russian University of Theatre Arts — GITIS, currently as a professor. - Since 1998, has held the position of Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs at the Institute of Contemporary Art. - Read lectures on Soviet theatre at Portland State University (USA, 1991) and the Governor's Academy of West Virginia (USA, 1993).

Research interests

• Theatre of England and Ireland. Doctoral thesis topic: The Grassroots Genres of the English Theatre of the First Half of the 19th Century. (melodrama, burlesque, extravaganza, pantomime) (1996) 

Main publications

• The Poetic Theatre of W. B. Yeats. Moscow: GITIS, 1986. 
• The Metamorphoses of One Mask. Moscow: GITIS, 1994. -Great Romantic Spectacles. Moscow: GITIS, 1996. 
• Victorianism in the Mirror of the Music Hall. Moscow: GITIS, 2009. 282 p. -Foreign Theatre in Russian Criticism (1954-2001). 
• Bibliographic index. Compiled by A.V. Bartoshevich, E. G. Khaichenko. Moscow: GITIS, 2010, 110 p.

Education and career

• Born on December 31, 1973, in Tbilisi. In 1984 entered the Tbilisi Choreographic College, and in 1987  continued his studies at the Moscow Academic Choreographic College, where he graduated from in the class of Professor Peter Pestov.
• On August 26, 1992, he was accepted into the Bolshoi Theatre troupe. Since 1995 – he has been the premier of the Bolshoi Theatre. He worked on his roles at the Bolshoi Theatre under the mentoring of G. S. Ulanova and M. T. Semenova, N.R. Simachev and N. B. Fadeechev.
• In 1996 -  graduated from the Moscow State Choreographic Institute with a degree of Teacher-Tutor.
•  Since 2004 -  has been a regular presenter of the Kultura TV channel (the program Masterpieces of the World Musical Theatre).
• Since 2005 - worked as a teacher-tutor at the Bolshoi Theatre, and also taught advanced classes.
• On October 28, 2013, he was appointed Acting Rector of the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in St. Petersburg. Professor of the Department of teaching methods of classical and duet-classical dance.
• In 2014 -  received a Master's degree in Law after graduating from the Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MGUA).

Social activities

• Member of the Council for Culture and Art under the President of the Russian Federation (since July 21, 2011).
• Member of the Council for Art Education (Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, since July 21, 2021).

Awards and Prizes

• 1992 Scholarship holder of the New Names program
• 1995 Prize of the Ballet journal Soul of Dance (Rising Star nomination)
• 1995 Second Prize of the Osaka International Ballet Competition (Japan)
• - 1997 First Prize of the International Ballet Competition in Moscow
• 1997 Peter Vanderslott Personal Prize For preserving the traditions of classical heritage
• 1997 Title Honored Artist of the Russian Federation
• 1997 Prize of the Sylphida Theatre Society Best Dancer of the Year
• 1999 Prize of the International Association of Choreographers Benois de la Danse for performing the role of Jean de Brienne in the ballet Raymonda
• 1999 National Theatre Award Golden Mask for  the role of Count Albert in the ballet Giselle (1997/98 season)
• 2000 Moscow Prize in Literature and Art
• 2000 National Theatre Award Golden Mask for solo performance in the ballet Symphony in C (1998/99 season)
• 2000 Member of the Union of Theatre Workers of Russia
• 2001 Title People's Artist of the Russian Federation
• 2001 State Prize of Russia for performing a number of classical repertoire roles
• 2003 Named the Best Dancer of the Year by the Italian journal  DANZA and DANZA
• 2003 Russian Independent Award Triumph for the highest achievements in the field of literature and art
• 2003 National Theatre Award Golden Mask for the performance of the role of Hermann in the ballet The Queen of Spades
• 2003 State Prize of Russia for the performance of the role of Hermann in the ballet The Queen of Spades
• 2003 Medal  of Honor of the Republic of Georgia
• 2004 Award of the Faces magazine  in the nomination Idol
• 2006 Knight of the Order of the French Republic For Serving to Art and Literature
• 2006 International Peace Prize of the United States Cultural Convention For outstanding personal achievements for the benefit of the world community
• 2013 People's Artist of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania
• 2014 Art Prize Petropol for the vivid embodiment of the image of Hermann in Roland Petit's play The Queen of Spades
• 2017 Honorary Professor of the Baku Academy of Choreography (Azerbaijan)
• 2018 Badge For Contribution to Russian Culture of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
• 2018 Medal of Friendship (State Award of the Russian Federation)
• 2019 Academic title of Associate Professor
• 2023 Medal Honorary Mentor of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation
• 2023 Medal of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree (State Award of the Russian Federation)

Main publications

• Tsiskaridze N. M., Kuznetsov I. L., Six Exam Lessons of Classical Dance by P. A. Pestov. The training manual. Saint Petersburg: Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet, 2019.
• Tsiskaridze N. M., Kuznetsov I. L. Classical Dance Program. 100 years of Improvements. Educational and Methodical Manual. St. Petersburg, 2021.

Professional activities

Theatre historian, theatre critic, D. Sc in Art Studies.

Education and career

Professor at the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts – GITIS.

After completing postgraduate studies, taught the history of Russian theatre and literature at the Yaroslavl State Theatre Institute. - Defended her doctoral thesis on the topic: Anthropological problems of A. N. Ostrovsky's theatre (2000).

Research interests

• Russian theatre history, 
• Stage pedagogy, 
• Russian classics
  

Professional activities

D. Sc in Philology, Professor, Honored Worker of Higher Education of the Russian Federation.

Education and career

Head of the Department of History, Philosophy, and Literature of the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts – GITIS.

Research interests

• In 1989 - defended his candidate thesis The Concept of Child Character and the Problem of Alienation in the Works of J.D. Salinger and T. Capote
• In 1995 - awarded the title of associate professor. 
• In 1999- defended his thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philology on the topic: The Problem of Wealth and Poverty in Russian and Foreign Literature of the 19th Century. 

Social activities

The Deputy chairman of the All-Russian Association of Teachers of Literature.

Main publications

Published more than 70 articles on the problems of typological study of literature.

Monographs:

• The Word: Embodied Being. Moscow, 1994. - Dynamics of Plots in Russian Literature of the 19th Century. Moscow, 1996.
• Wealth and Poverty. Poetry and Prose of Money. Moscow, 1999. 
• Celebration of Madness. Dionysus and Melpomene, Moscow, 2000.
• Dimensions of Culture: Text, Theory, History, and Reading Experience / A.L. Yastrebov, A.V.Kurguzov, and I.I. Murzak. Moscow: URSS: LENAND, 2015. 
• Pushkin and the Void: the Birth of Culture from the Spirit of Reality / A. Yastrebov, Moscow: RIPOL Classic, 2012. 
• Wealth and poverty: Poetry and Prose of Money / A. Yastrebov, Moscow: Agraf, 1999.