Editorial

Artem N. Zorin

Artem N. Zorin

Editor-in-Chief
Doctor of Philology, Professor of  Saratov National Research State University named after N.G. Chernyshevsky (Saratov, Russia).
Maria S. Berlova

Maria S. Berlova

Editorial and Expert Council
Cand. Sc in Art Studies, PhD in Theatre Studies (Stockholm University) (Moscow, Russia).
Alexander G. Kolesnikov

Alexander G. Kolesnikov

Editorial and Expert Council
Doctor of Arts, leading researcher at the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS) (Moscow, Russia).
Natalya S. Ryabchikova

Natalya S. Ryabchikova

Editorial and Expert Council
PhD in Film Studies (University of Pittsburgh), Lecturer, Higher School of Economics, (Moscow, Russia).

Editorial Board

Professional activities

Education and career

Research interests

Dissertation: The Tragedy of Ya. B. Knyazhnin "Rosslav": the National Myth of the Hero-Warrior and the Problems of Historicism (2011).

Social activities

Awards and Prizes

Professional activities

Education and career

Research interests

Awards and Prizes

Professional activities

Education and career

Professional activities

Education and career

Research interests

Social activities

Awards and Prizes

Professional activities

Education and career

Social activities

Awards and Prizes

Professional activities

Education and career

Research interests

Main publications

Professional activities

Education and career

Research interests

Main publications

Professional activities

Education and career

Research interests

Main publications

Professional activities

Education and career

Research interests

Social activities

Awards and Prizes

Main publications

Professional activities

Education and career

Research interests

Social activities

Main publications

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.