Toronto Slavic Quarterly. № 34. Fall 2010

Authors

Roman Abisogomjan, graduate of Tartu University, PhD candidate at
Tallinn University. Research interests: Russian emigration, Russian military
men in Estonian Republic (1919–1940). He is an author of the publication Rol'
russkih voennyh dejatelej v obschestvennoj i kul'turnoj zhizni Estonskoj Respubliki
1920–1930­h gg. i ikh literaturnoe nasledie. Biografcheski spravochnik.(Tartu,
2007) and more than 15 scholarly articles.

Irina Belobrovtseva, PhD is a Professor of Russian Literature of the In-
stitute of Russian and Slavic Languages and Literatures of Tallinn University.
She is author of more than a hundred scholarly publications, including Ro­
man M. A. Bulgakova „Master i Margarita: konstruktivnye printsipy organizatsii
teksta“ (Tartu, 1997); a collection of articles on contemporary Russian and Es-
tonian literature; a concise commentary to the novel Master i Margarita (co-au-
thored with S. K. Kul'ius) (Tallinn, 2001). She is editor and co-editor of the
series Baltiiskii arkhiv (Materialy po istorii russkoi kul'tury v Pribaltike (vols. 1–3),
of the two-volume memoirs of N. E. Andreev, To, chto vspominaetsia (Tallinn,
1996), three issues of the Samoilovskie chteniia (Tallinn, 2001, 2006, 2009).

Nikolai Bogomolov graduated from the Department of Philology of
Moscow University in 1973 and earned his PhD at the Department of Soviet
Literature in 1979. Has been teaching in the Faculty of Journalism at Moscow
University since 1978. Now professor and Head of the department of Literary
and Artistic Criticism. Author of over 500 scholarly works, including Mikhail
Kuzmin: articles and materials (Moscow 1995), Poetic Speech (Moscow, 1995),
Mikhail Kuzmin: A Life in Art (co-author J. E. Malmstad) (Moscow 1996, Sankt-
Petersburg, 2007, English version – Harvard University Press, 1999), Early
Twentieth Century Russian Literature and Occultism (Moscow, 1999), Russian
Literature of the First Third of the Twentieth Century: Portraits, Issues, Investiga­
tions (Tomsk, 1999), From Pushkin to Kibirov (Moscow, 2004), Viacheslav Ivanov
in 1903–1907: Documentary Chronicles (Moscow, 2009), About „The Silver Age“
(Moscow, 2010). Publisher of the books of I. Annenskii, Andrei Belyi, K. Bol'-
shakov, V. Bryusov, Z. Gippius, N. Gumilev, G. Ivanov, M. Kuzmin, V. Kho-
dasvich A. Tinyakov.

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Aleksandr Danilevsky, PhD, is a Senior Researcher of the Institute of
Russian and Slavic Languages and Literatures of Tallinn University. His area
of specialization is twentieth-century Russian literature, including the Silver
Age, Russian émigré literature, the prose of the 1920s and 30s, Rozanov, Re-
mizov, Temiriazev (Iu. Annenkov). He edited and co-edited issues Kultura
russkoi diaspory: samorefeksiia i samoidentifkaciia (Tartu, 1997); Mezhdu Vos­
tokom i Zapadom: Jevrei v russkoi i jevropeiskoi kulture, (Tallinn, 2000); Memuary v
kulture russkogo zarubezhia (Moscow, 2010) etc.

Sergei Dotsenko completed his PhD at the University of Tallinn, Esto-
nia. Associate Professor of the Institute of Slavic Languages and Literatures at
the University of Tallinn. Research interests: researcher of the Silver Age liter-
ature. Author of monography Problems of Remizov’s Poetics (2000) and articles
on the history and poetics of 20th century Russian literature (A. Remizov,
V. Ivanov, M. Bulgakov, B. Pasternak, M. Cvetaeva, A. Blok, V. Brusov,
A. N. Tolstoi etc). He edited and co-edited issues: Vtoraia proza: Sbornik statei
(Tallinn, 2004); Russkaia emigraciia: Literatura. Istoriia. Kinoletopis (Ierus-
alim-Moskva-Tallinn, 2004); Baltiski arhiv: Russkaja kultura v Pribaltike. XI.
„Tallinnski tekst“ v russkoi kulture (Tallinn, 2006); Kultura russkoi diaspory: Eem­
igracia i memuary (Tallinn, 2009) etc.

Fyodor Fyodorov, PhD is a Professor at Daugavpils University and Dir-
ector of the Institute of Comparative Studies; he is a Corresponding Member
of the Latvian Academy of Sciences. His books include Faust Gete (Riga,
1976), Chelovek v romanticheskoi literature (Riga, 1987), Romanticheskii khudo­
zhestvennyi mir: prostranstvo i vremia (Riga, 1988), and Khudozhestvennyi mir ne­
metskogo romantizma: struktura i semantika (Moscow, 2005).

Sergei Garkavi is completing archival research in Moscow and St.
Petersburg for a series of articles for the dictionary Русские писатели. 1800–
1917. He is co-author (with E. Kuranda) of a number of articles introducing
readers and scholars to unknown or inaccessible texts by Igor Severyanin. His
primary scholarly interest is archival and textological research on Russian lit-
erature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Anastasia Gorobets, M. A., is a Slavic and German philologist and
graduate of the Faculty of Foreign Literature of St. Petersburg State Univer-
sity, the Faculties of Russian Literature of the Slavic Institute and of Modern
German Literature of the Institute of German Studies of Vienna University.
She is also a Research Fellow at the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin
House) and holds a grant from the Austrian Scientifc Society. She is writing a
dissertation on the works of the „young“ poet of the frst wave of Russian
emigration, Antonina Ladinsky.

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Alla Gracheva is a Doktor flologicheskikh nauk (1998) and Senior
Associate in the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) of the
Russian Academy of Sciences. She has published many articles on the history
of Russian literature in the early twentieth century (Remizov, Artsybashev,
Andreev, Zamyatin and others). She is author of the monographs Алексей
Ремизов и древнерусская культура. СПб., 2002, and Жанр романа и твор­
чества Алексея Ремизова (1910–1950­е годы, СПб., 2010 and editor-in-chief of
Ремизов А. М. Собрание сочинений. М.: Русская книга, 2000–2003, 10 vols.
She has also edited Алексей Ремизов: Исследования и материалы, СПб., 1994
and Aleksej Remizov: Studi e materiali inediti. Salerno; SPb, 2003.

Rut Hinrikus is an associate in the Estonian Museum of Literature. Re-
serach interests: the history of Estonian literature and culture and biography.
She is chair of the association Эстонские биографии and has compiled three
volumes of Биографии эстонского народа / Eesti rahva elulood (2001–2005) as
well as an edition of К. Ристикиви, Литературный дневник / Kirjanduslik
päevik (2000) etc. She also particpates in the projects Публикации литератур­
ных и историко­культурных источников из собраний Эстонского архива ис­
тории культуры, Источники истории культуры и контекстуальность ли­
тературы and others.

Anneli Kõvamees, PhD, is a lector of the Institute of Estonian Literature
and Culture of Tallinn Univeristy and a researcher of the Institute of Russian
and Slavic Languages and Literatures of Tallinn University. Areas of research
include Estonian literature (e. g. Estonian travelogues, Russian theme in Esto-
nian prose and travelogues), travel literature and imagological viewpoint to
literature. She has published in peer-reviewed magazines (e.g. Keel ja Kirjan­
dus [Language and Literature]) and in international compilations, e. g. Back to
Baltic Memory: Lost and Found in Literature 1940–1968 (2008).

Gotfried Kratz, PhD, is doing research in the publishing history feld,
primarily on Russian language books published in Germany and German
language books, published in Russia. His works have appeared in German
and Russian periodicals, most recently in Archiv für Geschichte des Buchwesens,
Kniga. Issledovaniia i materialy and Bibliografya. He is an acting member of the
Bureau of the Book Section at the Moscow based Central House of Scientists
of the Russian Academy of Sciences and member of the editorial staf of the
Russian Book Chamber journal Bibliografya. He lectures regularly at the
Chair of Library science of the Moscow Academy of Continuing Professional
Education and works full time as Slavic area specialist at Münster University
and Regional Library, Germany.

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Elena Kuranda is a kandidat flologicheskikh nauk and a doctoral candid-
ate in the Faculty of Russian Language at Moscow State Pedagogical Univer-
sity. She has published more than ffy articles on philology, including several
for the Mandelshtam Encyclopedia (V. V. Gippius, V. A. Chukovsky, and others)
and methodological articles for the newspaper Литература. 1 сентября. Her
research interests include the history and textology of the literature of the
frst third of the twentieth century.

Olesja Lagashina PhD, is a lector in the Institute of Slavic Languages
and Literature, University of Tallinn. Main research interests: Russian emig-
ration and its literature (1918–1940), historical novel, genre studies, the works
of Mark Aldanov.

Pavel Lavrinec, PhD, is an Associate Professor in of the Department of
Russian Philology at Vilnius University. Graduated from the Department of
Russian Philology of Vilnius University in 1985 and earned his kandidat de-
gree at the Department of Russian Philology of Moscow University in 1992.
Since 2000 he has been the editor of the Baltiiskii arkhiv web site. He is uthor
of a monograph Evgeni Škliar: žiznennyj put' skital'ca (Vilnius, 2008) and more
than a hundred scholarly publications. His research interests include the his-
tory of Russian émigré literature, especially in the Baltic States, Polish-Russi-
an and Lithuanian-Russian literary relations, and history of Russian literature
in Lithuania.

Aurika Meimre is a Professor and Director of the Institute of Slavonic
Languages and Cultures, Tallinn University. Research interests include Russi-
an Culture in Estonia, XX Century Russian and Estonian History, Literature
and Culture, Education. She graduated from Tallinn University with an MA,
thesis Peter Pilski in Estonia in 1922–1927 and a PhD thesis, Russian Émigré
Writers in Estonia in 1918–1940: Based on the Periodical Issues. Her most recent
project is “Topography of Culture: Russian Intellectuals in Estonia as a Sum-
mer-residents” (Estonian Scientifc Foundation, 2007–2010).

Sirje Olesk, PhD is a historian of literature whose areas include the his-
tory of Estonian and Finnish literature and literature contacts. She is senior
researcher in the Estonian Literary Museum, and has also lectured at the Uni-
versity of Tartu on the history of 19th and 20th century Estonian literature. In
2008-2010 she was a lecturer in Estonian literature and culture at Helsinki
University. She is the co-author of the latest edition of Estonian Literary His­
tory (2001) and has published several articles and books about the subject in
Estonia and Finland

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Zinaida Poljak, is a kandidat flologicheskih nauk and Associate Professor
of the Department of Russian Philology of the National Pedagogical Univer-
sity. Research interests: XX century Russian and Kazakh Literature. She is an
author of more than 60 scholarly articles (I. Bunin, A. Kuprin, A. Kushner,
I. Brodski etc).

Galina Ponomareva is a kandidat flologicheskikh nauk and a Senior Re-
searcher of the Institute of Russian and Slavic Languages and Literatures of
Tallinn University. Research interests: history of Russian criticism of the 19th
and early 20th centuries and Russian literature of the same period
(I. Annensky, D. Merezhkovsky); the frst wave of Russian emigration; the re-
ception of Soviet literature of the 1920s and 30s; the Old Believers; the semiot-
ics of Russian culture; Russian-Estonian literary and cultural links; and the
history of Tallinn and Tartu Universities. She is co-author of the publications
Русская печать и культура в Эстонии во время Второй Мировой войны
(1939–1944) (with T. Shor) (Tallinn, 2009), Eesti vanausulised. Väike kirikuloo
teatmik (The Old Believers of Estonia. A Brief Historical Survey [Tartu, 2006]) and
more than 100 scholarly articles.

Manfred Schruba, PhD, Dr. hab., teaches Russian and Polish literature
at the Slavic Department of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. His re-
search interests include Russian and Polish cultural history, 18th century lite-
rature, the Silver Age, Russian frst wave émigré literature. His publications
include the monographs Studien zu den burlesken Dichtungen V. I. Majkovs
(Wiesbaden, 1997) and Literaturnye ob­edinenia Moskvy i Peterburga 1890–
1917 godov: Slovar’ (Moscow, 2004); he is co-editor (with Oleg Korostelev) of
the book Vokrug redakcionnogo arkhiva „Sovremennykh zapisok“ (Parizh, 1920–
1940): Sbornik statej i materialov (Moscow, 2010).

Tatiana Shor is a specialist in the publications department of Estonia’s
Historical Archives and has writen extensively on the history of Estonian
culture and the Russian diaspora in the Baltic in various periods. She is co-
author of the publications Русская печать и культура в Эстонии во время
Второй Мировой войны (1939–1944) (with T. Shor) (Tallinn, 2009), Eesti
vanausulised. Väike kirikuloo teatmik (The Old Believers of Estonia. A Brief Histor­
ical Survey [Tartu, 2006]) and more than 80 scholarly articles.

Yurii Sidyakov, Dr. Philol., is an associate professor in the Slavic De-
partment of the University of Latvia. He specializes in the history of Russian
literature of the second half of the nineteenth century and has an interest in
the history of the frst wave of Russian emigration. He has published some
seventy articles, including: Письма И. С. Беллюстина к Н. С. Лескову,

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Philologia: Рижск. филол. сб., вып. 2: Словесность и эволюция культуры. Рига,
1997; О иконе (образе) в творчестве Достоевского, Poetica — D № 1:
Поэтика Достоевского. Статьи и заметки. Riga: LU Akademiskais apgads,
2007; and Письма митрополита Евлогия (Георгиевского) к архиепископу
Иоанну, Stanford Slavic Studies, 2004, vol. 27: Балтийско­русский сборник,
кн. 1.

Grigori Utgof is the author of the prize-winning PhD dissertation, Prob­
lema sintakticheskogo tempa (The Problem of Syntactic Tempo) (2007). He studied
at Tallinn University and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He co-ed-
ited four issues of a Tallinn-based almanac, Studia Slavica (2003, 2007, 2008,
2010), and co-authored annotations to Podvig (Glory) in Vladimir Nabokov’-
s Sobranie sochinenii russkogo perioda: V piati tomakh (Collected Russian Works: In
Five Volumes) (1999–2000). Currently, Dr. Utgof is an ESF research fellow at
Tallinn University where he is doing his post-doctoral research („A Syntactic
Approach to Translation Analysis“).

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