Editorial Board
Chief Editor
Andrey Yu. Dvornichenko
Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Head of Department of Russian History, Institute of History, St. Petersburg State University (Editor-in-Chief); a.dvornichenko@spbu.ru
Graduated from the Faculty of History of Leningrad State University in 1980. He obtained his first doctorate (1983) and habilitation (1993) from St. Petersburg (Leningrad) University. Dean of the Faculty of History of St. Petersburg State University (2001-2011). Since 2003 he is the Head of the Department of Russian History. General Editor (2002-2016) and since 2016 Editor-in-chief of "Vestnik of St. Petersburg State University. History". Research interests: political structure and culture of Ancient Russia, the history of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the history of Ukraine, the history of the Cossacks, historical geography, historiography.
Executive Editor
Aleksandr E. Kotov
Doctor of History, Professor of the Department of Russian History from Ancient Times to the 20th Century, Institute of History, St. Petersburg State University;
Graduated from the Faculty of History of St. Petersburg State University in 2002. Defended dissertations: candidate of historical sciences (2006), doctor of historical sciences (2017). He taught at SPb Institute of Humanitarian Education (2006-2014) and at Admiral Makarov State University of Marytime and Inland Shipping (2008-2016). Since September 2016, he has been appointed associate professor at the Institute of History of St. Petersburg State University.
Research interests: political and intellectual history of Russia in the second half of the 19th century; history of political ideologies in Russia (conservatism, nationalism, Slavophilism); national policy of the Russian Empire.
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Executive Editor
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Senior Lecturer, Institute of History, St. Petersburg State University (Deputy Editor-in-Chief); d.sosnitskij@spbu.ru
Graduated from the Faculty of History of St. Petersburg State University in 2011. He received his degree of Candidate of Historical Sciences in 2016. In 2015-2021 he was working in the Department of Manuscripts of the Russian National Library. Since 2022 – senior lecturer at the Institute of History of St. Petersburg State University. Research interests: historical memory, historical politics, history of higher education, historiography.
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Board Secretary
Olga A. Abramova
Editorial Board
Vladimir N. Baryshnikov
Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Modern and Contemporary History, Institute of History, St. Petersburg State University; v.baryshnikov@spbu.ru
Graduated from the Faculty of History of Leningrad State University in 1982. He received his first doctorate (1989) and habilitation (1997) from St. Petersburg (Leningrad) University. Since 1993 he is teaching at the Department of Modern and Contemporary History of the Faculty of History of St. Petersburg State University (since 1993 as Associate Professor, then from 1999 as Professor and since 2003 as the Head of the Department). He is a fellow of the Academy of Military Historical Sciences. Research interests: history of foreign policy in the 20-30s of the XX century; the Second World War, history of the Scandinavian countries and Finland.
Sergei E. Fedorov
Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Institute of History, St. Petersburg State University; s.fedorov@spbu.ru
Graduated from the Faculty of History of Leningrad State University in 1985. He has received his first doctorate in 1990 and habilitation in 2005. He has taught at Herzen State Pedagogical University in 1985-1996 before moving back to Medieval History Department of St. Petersburg State University in 1997 as Associate Professor and since 2006 as Professor. Research interests: the Late Medieval and Early Modern social history of the British Isles; history of social elites and dynastic politics; formation of the early Modern state; composite monarchies; court culture, official ceremonies and ritual; dynastic mythology; mechanisms of formation of ethnopolitical (later – national) identities; gender studies. orcid.org/0000-0002-6030-7667
Gregory L. Freeze
PhD, Professor, Brandeis University, USA
He was educated at De Paul University (Bachelor's degree) and Columbia University (Master's degree). Since 1972 he has been teaching at Brandeis University. As a researcher and visiting professor he worked at Harvard, Tubingen, California, and Heidelberg Universities. Since 2016 – Professor of the Theology Department of MEPhI. Research interests: history of the Russian Church, social history, history of everyday life. orcid.org/0000-0003-2831-336X
Valentin V. Golovin
Doctor of Philology, Director of Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences; valentin_golovin@mail.ru
Graduated from the Library Faculty of Leningrad State Institute of Culture in 1982. Earned degrees: Candidate of Philological Sciences (1987); Doctor of Philological Sciences (2000). In 1984-2013 he was an Assistant, Associate Professor, Professor and the Head of the Department of Literature and Children's Reading of LGIK/SPbGUKI. Since 2013 - leading Researcher at the Institute of Russian Literature (the Pushkin House) of the Russian Academy of Sciences; since 2017 - Director of the IRLI RAS. Research interests: Russian folklore and literary traditions, popular science books for children, children's fiction. orcid.org/0000-0001-9863-034X
Andrey Vladimirovich Golovnev Doctor of Historical Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Graduated from the Faculty of History of Omsk State University in 1980. Received degrees: Candidate of Historical Sciences (1986); Doctor of Historical Sciences (1995). In 1982-1990 he was a lecturer and then the Head of the Department of the History of the USSR of Tobolsk State Pedagogical Institute. In 1990-2017 – Senior (1990), Leading (1999), and Principal Researcher at the Institute of History and Archaeology of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Since 2017 – Director of the MAE RAS. Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2003). Research interests: anthropology of movement, history and theory of colonization, nomadology, ethnophenomenology, mythology, film anthropology.
Charles Halperin
PhD, Researcher, Indiana University (USA); chalperi@iu.edu
He received his first degree from Brooklyn College of University of New York and a doctorate from Columbia University. He has intensively published in English, Russian, and Japanese. Research interests: medieval history of Russia, Russia during the Tatar-Mongol invasion.
Gary Hamburg
PhD, Professor, Claremont McKenna College (USA); gary.hamburg@cmc.edu
He received his bachelor's degree (1972) and Master's degree (1978) from Stanford University. In 1979-2004 he has taught at University of Notre Dame (USA). Since 2004 - Professor at Claremont McKenna College. Research interests: political movements of the Late Imperial Russia, history of Russian socio-political thought. orcid.org/0000-0001-7021-159X
Manfred Hildermeier
PhD, Professor, University of Göttingen (Germany)
He graduated from University of Tübingen He received his doctorate from the Free University of Berlin in 1983. He has multiple academic fellowships in Moscow, Kiev and the USA. Since 1985 he has been teaching at the University of Göttingen. Research interests: modern and contemporary history of Russia. orcid.org/0000-0001-8495-7480
Pavel V. Lizunov
Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, M.V. Lomonosov Northern (Arctic) Federal University; pavelvl@mail.ru
Graduated from the Faculty of History of Leningrad State University in 1986. Received degrees: Candidate of Historical Sciences (1992); Doctor of Historical Sciences (2002). Professor, Head of the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Studies of the Faculty of Management and Law of the Severodvinsk Branch of the M.V. Lomonosov Northern (Arctic) Federal University. Research interests: economic history of Russia, local history. orcid.org/0000-0002-7024-8904
Boris N. Mironov
Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Institute of History, St. Petersburg State University; b.mironov@spbu.ru
Graduated from the Faculty of History of Leningrad State University in 1965. Obtained degrees: Candidate of Historical Sciences (1969); Doctor of Historical Sciences (1983). In 1970-2016 – employee of the Law Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences/St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Since 1972 he has taught at the Faculty of History of LSU. In 2000-2013 – Professor at the European University in St. Petersburg. Since 2017 – Professor of the Department of Russian History Source Studies at the Institute of History of St. Petersburg State University. Research interests: cliometry, social, economic, demographic and anthropometric history of Russia, methodology of historical research. orcid.org/0000-0001-8559-0019
Maureen Perrie
Professor, University of Birmingham (the UK)
In 2001-2004 – President of the British Association of Slavic and Eastern European Studies (BASEES). Professor, Center for the Russian, European and Eurasian studies, University of Birmingham. Research interests: the history of modern and contemporary Russia. orcid.org/0000-0001-8724-9658
Vladimir V. Pitulko
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Senior Researcher, Institute of the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences; pitulko.vladimir@gmail.com
Graduated from the Faculty of History of Leningrad State University in 1983. He has received his degree of Candidate of Historical Sciences in 1995. Since 1986 he is working as a researcher in the LOIA of the USSR Academy of Sciences – IIMK RAS. Since 2000 he is an acting Head of the International interdisciplinary research project "Zhokhov-2000". Research interests: archeology of the Stone Age of the Arctic and Eastern Siberia, Quaternary geology of these areas, paleogeography, changes in human culture due to transformations of the natural environment. orcid.org/0000-0001-5672-2756
Viktor V. Puzanov
Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Institute of History and Sociology, Udmurt State University; puzanov@udm.ru
Graduated from the Faculty History of Udmurt State University in 1985. Obtained degrees: Candidate of Historical Sciences (1986); Doctor of Historical Sciences (2009). Since 1990 - lecturer of the Department of Pre–revolutionary National History of UdmSU, from April 1991 to the present - Head of the same Department. Director of the Center for the History of Education, Science and Culture of UdmSU. Research interests: historiography of Russian history, socio-economic and political history of medieval Russia, history of higher education. orcid.org/0000-0001-8691-816X
Adrian A. Selin
Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, State University Higher School of Economics; adrian.selin@gmail.com
Graduated from the Faculty History of St. Petersburg State University in 1994. Earned degrees: Candidate of Historical Sciences (1998); Doctor of Historical Sciences (2010). In 1994-2012 – an employee of the Staroladozhsky Historical, Architectural and Archaeological Museum-Reserve (in 2001-2012 – Deputy Director for academic work). Since 2006 – Associate Professor, from 2010 – Professor of the Department of History of the St. Petersburg branch of the State University Higher School of Economics. Research interests: prosopography, historical geography, frontier studies, social history. orcid.org/0000-0002-8891-2105
Igor O. Tyumentsev
Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Volgograd Institute of Management – branch of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation; tijumencev@mail.ru
Graduated from the Faculty History of Leningrad State University in 1984. Received degrees: Candidate of Historical Sciences (1989); Doctor of Historical Sciences (1999). In 1989-2008 he taught at Volgograd State University. In 2008-2012 – Rector of Volgograd Academy of Public Administration. In 2012-2019 – Director of Volgograd Institute of Management, a branch of RANEPA. Currently, Professor, Head of the research Laboratory of Volgograd Institute of Management, a branch of the RANEPA. Research interests: history of the Time of Troubles, source studies, local history. orcid.org/0000-0002-2032-9570
