Education

  • MA, Russian Literature, Moscow State University
  • MA, Russian History, Moscow State University

Research

  • Pushkin’s The Captain’s Daughter (historical background and cultural contexts)
  • Aleksandr Turgenev and Petr Chaadaev: a reassessment of Russian intellectual history of the first half of the nineteenth century based on unpublished texts and source materials.

Publications

Articles

  • “Dostoevskii i rannee slavianofil’stvo.” Dostoevskii. Materialy i issledovaniia. Vol. 2. Leningrad, 1976. 175-181.
  • “Pervyi otzyv ob A.N. Ostrovskom?” Teatr, 11, 1978.
  • “K izucheniiu pochvennichestva.” Dostoevskii.Materialy i issledovaniia. Vol. 3. Leningrad, 1978. 144-150.
  • “Zametki o pochvennichestve.” Dostoevskii. Materialy i issledovaniia. Vol. 4. Leningrad, 1980.
  • “Neopublikovannoe pis’mo I.S. Aksakova N.N. Strakhovu.” Literaturnaia ucheba, 4, 1980.
  • “Korotkii Den’ russkogo, estetizma’ (Druzhinin i Botkin).” Literaturnaia ucheba, 3, 1981.
  • “I.S. Aksakov i ‘russkii arkhiv’.” Fedorovskie chteniia. Moscow, 1982.
  • “Dve zametki o V. G. Belinskom.” With A. S. Nemzer. Izvestiia AN SSSR, seriia literatury i iazyka, 1, 1982. 65-71.
  • “Iz literaturnogo naslediia A. A. Bestuzheva (Marlinskogo).” Izvestiia AN SSSR, seriia literatury i iazyka, 3, 1983.
  • “K literaturnym otnosheniiam Pushkina i S.P. Shevyreva.” Problemy Pushkinovedeniia. Riga, 1983.
  • “A. V. Druzhinin o molodom Dostoevskom.” Dostoevskii. Materialy i issledovaniia. Vol. 5. Leningrad, 1983. 186-190.
  • “Vokrug ‘Mednogo Vsadnika’.” Izvestiia AN SSSR, seriia literatury i iazyka, 3, 1984.
  • “Tiutchev letom 1837 goda.” Literaturny protsess i razvitie russkoi kul’tury XVIII-XIX vv. Tallinn, 1985. 70-72.
  • “Iz materialov dlia biografii Tiutcheva.” Izvestiia AN SSSR, seriia literatury i iazyka, 4, 1986. 350-357.
  • “Dve repliki Tiutcheva po povodu smerti Pushkina.” Pushkin i russkaia literatura. Riga, 1986. 98-101.
  • “K postroeniiu biografii Tiutcheva.” Tynianovskii sbornik. Vtorye Tynianovskie chteniia. Riga, 1986. 265-272.
  • “Tiutchev o Lomonosove.” Uchenye zapiski tartuskogo universiteta, 781, 1987. 127-130.
  • “Pushkin, Tiutchev i Pol’skoe vosstanie 1830-1831 gg.” Pushkinskie chteniia v Tartu. Tallinn, 1987. 49-52.
  • “A. I. Turgenev i Shelling (po neizdannym materialam).” With K. M. Azadovskii. Voprosy filosofii, 7, 1988. 152-164.
  • “Tiutchev i N. I. Grech (pervaia vstrecha).” Literaturnyi protsess i problemy literaturnoi kul’turoi. Tallinn, 1988. 23-24.
  • “K kharakteristike istoricheskogo myshleniia K. S. Aksakova.” Trudy po znakovym sistemam. Vol. 22. Tartu, 1988. 117-126.
  • “‘Olegov Shchit’ u Pushkina i Tiutcheva (1829 g.).” Tynianovskii sbornik. Tret’i tynianovskie chteniia. Riga, 1988. 61-70.
  • “Zhukovskii v biografii Tiutcheva.” Chetvertye tynianovskie chteniia. Tezisy dokladov materialy dlia obsuzhdeniia. Riga, 1988.
  • “O Chaadaeve i ego filosofii istorii” With V. A. Milchina. Chaadaev P.Ia.Sochineniia. Moscow, 1989. 3-12.
  • “Publikatsiia traktata L.P. Karasavina ‘Zhozef de Mestr’.” Voprosy filosofii, 3, 1989. 93-118.
  • “Neizdannye pis’ma I. S. Gagarina A. I. Turgenevu. Stat’ia pervaia.” With V. A. Milchina. Simvol, 22, 1989. 217-236.
  • “Poslanie Tiutcheva avtoru ‘Vol’nosti” i delo Luvelia.”, Velikaia frantsuzskaia revoliutsiia i puti russkogo osvoboditel’nogo dvizheniia. Tartu, 1989. 50-55.
  • “I. S. Aksakov.” Russkie pisateli. 1800-1917. Vol. 1, Moscow, 1989. 29-32.
  • “K. S. Aksakov.” Russkie pisateli. 1800-1917. Vol.1, Moscow, 1989. 32-34.
  • “V. S. Aksakova.” Russkie pisateli. 1800-1917. Vol.1, Moscow, 1989, p. 40.
  • “B. N. Almazov.” Russkie pisateli. 1800-1917. Vol. 1, Moscow, 1989. 49-50.
  • “N. P. Barsukov.” Russkie pisateli. 1800-1917. Vol. 1, Moscow, 1989. 164-165.
  • “I. S. Gagarin.” Russkie pisateli. 1800-1917. Vol. 1, Moscow, 1989. 509-510.
  • “Tiutchev i Pushkin. Istoriia literaturnykh otnoshenii. Stat’ia pervaia.” Tynianovskii sbornik. Chetvertye Tynianovskie chteniia. Riga, 1990. 60-76.
  • “Tiutchev–perevodchik Liudviga I. Bavarskogo.” Piatye Tynianovskie chteniia. Tezisy dokladov i materialy dlia obsuzhdeniia. Riga, 1990. 15-21.
  • “O stikhotvorenii ’14 dekabria 1825′ (K probleme Tiutchev i dekabrizm).” Tiutchevskii sbornik. Tallinn, 1990. 233-254.
  • “K istochnikam nezavershennogo traktata Tiutcheva ‘Rossiia i zapad’ (neopublikovannoe pis’mo A. N. Popovu).” In Tiutchevskii sbornik. Tallinn, 1990. 286-289.
  • “Iz naslediia P. B. Kozlovskogo.” With V. A. Milchina. Tiutchevskii sbornik. Tallinn, 1990. 296-311
  • “Tiutchev v Miunkhene.” Literaturnoe nasledstvo. Vol. 97, Book 2. Moscow, 1990. 52-64.
  • “Tiutchev v dnevnike A. I. Turgeneva.” With K. M. Azadovskii. Literaturnoe nasledstvo, Vol. 97, Book 2, Moscow, 1990. 72-86.
  • “Tiutchev i Varngagen Fon Enze.” With K. M. Azadovskii. In Literaturnoe nasledstvo, Vol. 97, Book 2, Moscow, 1990. 432-440.
  • “Otzyv Tiutcheva o romane ‘Evgenii Onegin’.” With V. M. Sazhin. Literaturnoe nasledstvo, Vol. 97, Book 2, Moscow, 1990. 451-452.
  • “Iz vospominanii S.M. Volkonskogo o Tiutcheve.” With R. D. Timenchik. Literaturnoe nasledstvo, Vol. 97, Book 2, Moscow, 1990. 68-69.
  • Tiutchev i stat’ia N.A. Mel’gunova o v 1853 g.” Literaturnoe nasledstvo, Vol. 97, Book 2, Moscow, 1990. 480-484.
  • “Pis’mo I.S. Aksakova Tiutchevu.” Literaturnoe nasledstvo, Vol. 97, Book 2, Moscow, 1990.
  • “Neskol’ko zametok k literaturnoi biografii Tiutcheva.” Literaturnoe nasledstvo, Vol. 97, Book 2, Moscow, 1990. 499-505.
  • “Iz kommentariev k tekstam Chaadaeva” [1-2]. Sbornik statei k 70-letiju Professora Iu. M. Lotmana. Tartu, 1992. 225-231.
  • “Gogol po materialam archiva bratiev Turgenevykh.” With V. A. Milchina. Shestye Tynianovskie Chteniia, Riga-Moscow, 1992. 61-65.
  • “Grot Ja. K.” In Russkie pisateli, 1800-1917. Vol 2. Moscow, 1992. 48-49.
  • “Zhadovskii P. V.” In Russkie pisateli, 1800-1917. Vol 2. Moscow, 1992. 253.
  • “Novonaidennyi politicheskii memorandum Tiucheva: k istorii sozdania.” Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 1, 1992. 91-115. Abridged translation.
  • “Tiutchev’s Political Memorandum Discovered.” Elementa. Article No. 1 (1993). 91-97.
  • “Chaadaev i markis de Custine” With V. A. Milchina. Russica Romana, 1 (1994). 79-85.
  • “Tiutchev i III Otdelenie” Tynianovskii sbornik. Riga-Moscow, 1994. 110-138.
  • “Markis de Custine i ego pervie russkie chitateli.” With V. A. Milchina. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 8, 1994. 107-139.
  • “Kozlovskii P. B.”, Russkie pisateli, 1800-1917. With V. A. Milchina. Vol. 3, Moscow, 1994, pp. 9-10.
  • “Kokorev I. T.” Russkie pisateli, 1800-1917. Vol. 3, Moscow, 1994. 15-16.
  • “Kudriavtsev P. N.” Russkie pisateli, 1800-1917. Vol. 3, Moscow, 1994. 199-201.
  • “Mei L. A.” With M. L. Gasparov. Russkie pisateli, 1800-1917. Vol. 3, Moscow, 1994. 565-568.
  • “K preniiam o russkoi stolitse.” Lotmanovskii sbornik. Moscow, 1995. 476-487.
  • “Pushkin i Zapiski kateriny II. ” With V. A. Milchina. Novye Bezdelki. Sbornik statei k 60-letiiu V. E. Vatzuro. Moscow, 1995-1996. 303-312.
  • “Un prince russe à Paris ou Le Diorama social de Paris de P.B.Kozlovsky.” With V. A. Milchina. In Moeurs des uns, coutumes des autres: Les Français au regard de L’Europe. Une anthologie. Clermont-Ferrand, 1995. 206-231.
  • “Le cabinet de Saint-Pétersbourg face au marquis de Custine.” With V. A. Milchina. Romantisme, 92, 1996. 9-22.
  • “Piotr Kozlovski.” With V. A. Milchina. In Histoire de la Littérature russe. Le XIX siècle: L’époque de Pouchkine et de Gogol. Paris: Fayard. 1996. 235-244.
  • “Okno v Evropu: Istochnikovedcheskii etud k ‘Mednomu Vsadniku’. With M. S. Nekljudova. Lotmanovskii sbornik. Vol. 2. Moscow, 1997. 256-272.
  • “Ein ökumenischer Kosmopolit – Aleksandr Turgenev.” In D. Herrmann and A.Ospovat (Hrsg.) Deutsche und Deutschland aus russischer Sicht. 19. Jahrhundert. München. 1998.626-652.(West-östliche Spiegelungen. Reihe A. Band 3).
  • “Fëdor Tjutchev über deutsche Zustände.” In Deutsche und Deutschland aus russischer Sicht. 19.Jahrhundert. Ed. D. Herrmann and A.Ospovat. West-östliche Speigelungen. Reihe A. Band 3. München. 1998. 626-652.
  • “Istoricheskii material i istoricheskie alliuzii v Kapitanskoi dochke.” Tynianovskii sbornik. Vol. 10. Moscow, 1998. 40-67.
  • “K istochnikam pushkinskoi temy ‘milost’-pravosudie’.” Polytropon: k 70 letiju V.N.Toporova. Moscow, 1998. 591-595.
  • “K istorii pushkinskogo perevoda iz Iuvenala.” With V. A. Milchina. Essays in Poetics, Literary History and Linguistics: Presented to V.V.Ivanov on His Seventieth Birthday. Moscow, 1999. 132-138
  • “Mos’e Bopre: literaturnaia genealogiia siuzhetnaia funktsiia.” Pushkinskij jubileinyi sbornik. Jerusalem, 1999.79-82.
  • “Smert’ Pushkina, rozhdenie intelligentsii.” Rossiia/Russia. Moscow-Venice. 1999. #2[10]. 45-48.
  • “Elementy politicheskoj mifologii Tiutcheva.” Tiutchevskii sbornik, 2. Tartu, 1999. 227-263.
  • “Iz kommentariia k Kapitanskoi dochke (lubochnye kartinki)”, Pushkinskaiia konferentsiia v Stenforde. Moscow, 2001. 357-365.

Books

authored and co-authored

  • “Kak slovo nashe otzovetsia” (O Pervom sbornike F.I. Tiutcheva).[“How our word responds…” (On F.I. Tiutchev’s First Collection of Verse)]. Moscow, 1980. 112 pages.
  • “Pechal’nu povest’ sokhranit’…”. (O avtore i chitateliakh) [“To preserve this sad tale…”: On the Author and Readers of “The Bronze Horseman”]. Co-authored with R. D. Timenchik. Moscow, 1985. 303 pages. 2nd ed., revised, Moscow, 1987. 351 pp.

edited and co-edited

  • A. A. Bestuzhev (Marlinskii). Povesti i rasskazy. [Stories and Tales]. Moscow, 1976.
  • V. A. Sollogub. Tri povesti. [Three Tales]. Moscow, 1978.
  • F. M. Dostoevskii. Polnoe sobranie sochinenii. v 30 tt. [Complete Works in Thirty Volumes]. Vol. 18. Leningrad, 1978. Co-edited.
  • V. G. Belinskii. Sobranie sochinenii v 9 tt. [Collected Works in Nine Volumes]. Vols. 3, 4, and 9. Moscow, 1978, 1979, 1982.
  • A. N. Ostrovskii. Polnoe sobranie sochinenii v 12 tt.[Complete Works in Twelve Volumes]. Vols. 11, 12. Moscow, 1979, 1980. Co-edited.
  • Proza russkikh poetov XIX veka [The Prose of Nineteenth-Century Russian Poets]. Moscow, 1982.
  • Russkaia estetika i kritika 40-50-kh godov XIX veka. [Russian Aesthetics and Criticism of the 1840s and 1850s]. Moscow, 1982. Co-edited.
  • A. A. Grigor’ev. Sochineniia v 2 tt. [Works in Two Volumes]. Vol. 1. Moscow, 1990. 607 pages. Co-edited.
  • Les Russe Découvrent la France au XVIII-e et au XIX-e siècle. Moscow, 1990. Co-edited.
  • P. V. Annenkov. Materialy dlia biografii A.C. Pushkina [Materials for a Biography of A. S. Pushkin.] Moscow, 1985. Reprint. Co-edited.
  • I. I. Panaev. Povesti. Ocherki [Tales and Sketches]. Moscow, 1986. Co-edited.
  • S. T. Aksakov. Izbrannoe. [Selected Works]. Moscow, 1987.
  • S. Ia. Gessen. Knigoizdatel’ Aleksandr Pushkin. [Aleksandr Pushkin as Publisher]. Moscow, 1987. Reprint.
  • I. I. Panaev. Izbrannaia proza [Selected Prose]. Moscow, 1988. Co-edited.
  • Zhivye Kartiny. Povesti i rasskazy pisatelei “natural’noi shkoly”. [Living Pictures. Stories and Tales by Authors of the “Natural School”]. Moscow, 1988. Co-edited.
  • A. A. Bestuzhev (Marlinskii). “Noch’ na Korable”: Povesti i rasskazy.[“A Night on a Ship”: Stories and Tales]. Moscow, 1988.
  • A. A. Grigor’ev, Odisseia poslednego romantika. [Odyssey of the Last Romantic]. Moscow, 1988. 495 pages.
  • Starye gody: Russkie istoricheskie povesti i rasskazy pervoi poloviny XIX veka. [Bygone Years. Russian Historical Tales and Stories from the First Half of the Nineteenth Century]. Moscow, 1989. Co-Edited.
  • A. I. Turgenev. Politicheskaia proza. [Political Prose]. Moscow, 1989, 368 pp.
  • A. A. Bestuzhev (Marlinskii), “Ispytanie”. Povesti i rasskazy [“Challenge”: Stories and Tales]. Moscow, 1991.
  • Arzamas. Sbornik v dvuch knigach. [“Arzamas”: Collected (Documentary) Materials in Two Volumes]. Moscow, 1994. 668 + 633 pages.21. Arzamas. Sbornik v dvuch knigach. [“Arzamas”: Collected (Documentary) Materials in Two Volumes]. Moscow, 1994. 668 + 633 pages.
  • A. de Custine. Rossiia v 1839 [Russia in 1839]. 2 vols. Moscow, 1996. 527+466 pages. Co-edited.
  • P. Kozlovsky. Edition publiée pour la premiére fois d’après le manuscript originale prèsentée et annotèe par Vèra Miltchina et Alexandre Ospovate. Paris: Honoré Champion þditeur, 1997. 231 pages. Co-edited.
  • P. B. Kozlovskii. Sotsial’naia diorama Parizha. [Diorama social de Paris] Tr. By V.A. Mil’china; commentary by V.A.Mil’china and A. L. Ospovat. Moscow: OGI. 1997. 190 pages.
  • Deutsche und Deutschland aus russischer Sicht. 19. Jahrhundert. Ed. D. Hermann and A. Ospovat. München. 1998. (West-–stliche Spiegelungen. Reihe A. Band 3).
  • Essays in Poetics, Literary History and Linguistics: Presented to V.V.Ivanov on His Seventieth Birthday. Moscow, 1999. Coedited.

Areas of Interest

  • Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature and Culture
  • The poetry of Pushkin and Tiutchev
  • Dostoevsky
  • Slavophilism
  • Aesthetics and Russian Intellectual History