Researcher of the Manuscripts Department, IWL RAS

Education:

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Philology (2018–2022, BA, cum laude);

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Philology, Department of the History of Modern Russian Literature and Contemporary Literary Process (2022–2024, MA, cum laude);

IWL RAS, Department of Manuscripts (since 2024, postgraduate studies)

Research interests:

History of Soviet culture of the 1920s–1950s; history of literary institutions; intellectual and cultural history of the USSR; history of literary studies and linguistics; Western-Soviet literary relations and contacts; reception of French literature in the USSR.

Professional Service: 

• Academic secretary of the serial scientific edition Codex Manuscriptus
• Executor of several RSF projects related to the study, digitalization and publication of archival primary sources:

1) “Transcript”: Politics and Literature. The Digital Archive of Literary Organizations of the 1920s–1930s (RSF no. 20-18-00394) (2022–2024);

2) “Russia/USSR and the West: Looking at Each Other. Literature in the Context of Culture and Politics in the 20^th Century”, 2023–2025.

• Member of the organizational and program committees of several international conferences:“Russian and European classics in the 21^st century: Preparation of digital academic commentary”, a grant from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation for major projects in priority areas of scientific and technological development (contract no. 075-15-2024-549, April 23, 2024 ) (2024–2026)

Awards and distinctions: 

Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences with a prize for young scientists of Russia and for students of educational institutions of higher education in Russia (25.06.2024)

Academic publications 

Selected publications

Monographs

Stalin Prize for Literature: Cultural Policy and the Aesthetic Canon of Stalinism. Moscow, Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2023. 800 p. 

Edited works

• Socialist Realism: Pro et contra,  vol. 1: Literature V. Socialist Realism. Comp. O.V. Bogdanova, D.M. Tsyganov, introd. by D.M. Tsyganov. St. Petersburg, Russian Academy of Fine Arts Publ., 2024. 1124 p. 
• [A series of articles:] Towards “State” Literature: Institutions and Practices, comp. by D.M. Tsyganov. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2024, no. 6 (190), pp. 104–164.

Selected Publications

• “The Stalin Prize for Literature: The Institutional Dimension of the Aesthetics of Socialist Realism (1940-1950s).” eSamizdat, vol. XVII, 2024. pp. 45–64. 
• “Soviet Literature and Stalin: Reflections on Cultural and Political History the USSR from Revolution to War (book review).” Filologicheskie nauki: Nauchnye doklady vysshei shkoly, no. 6, 2024, pp. 179–184. (with O.V. Bystrova)
•  “On the Reception of French Existentialism in the Cultural and Ideological Context of Late Stalinism (The Case of J.-P. Sartre).” Studia Litterarum, 2024, vol. 9, no 4, pp. 322-341. https://doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2024-9-4-322-341 
• “The Power Of The Bad Example: Louis-ferdinand Céline And The ‘Genealogy’ of The Socialist Realist Literary Project (Side Notes).” Novyi filologicheskii vestnik, no. 4, 2024, pp. 310–321.
• “ʽJourney to the Edge of the Soviet Night’: Towards the History of the Publication of L.-F. Céline’s Debut Novel in the USSR.” Literaturnyi fakt, no. 3 (33), 2024, pp. 416–436. https://doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2024-33-416-436
• “‘The First Steps Towards ‘All-Human Brotherhood’: An Episode from the History of Foreign Literature Publishing in Soviet Russia (1917–1922).” Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Studies in Literature and Language, vol. 83, no. 4, 2024, pp. 86–101. 
• “‘And they Brought Quiet Bondage to the World as a Gift ...’ Ideology and Pragmatics of the Pushkin Studies Professor D.D. Blagoi (1920-1950s).” Vremennik Pushkinskoi komissii, vol. 38, 2024, pp. 193–222. https://doi.org/10.31860/0236-2481-2024-38-193-222
• “Negative Reception: Jean-Paul Sartre in the Literary Situation of Late Stalinism.”  ROSSICA. Literary contacts & Connections, no. 4, 2023, pp. 115–174. https://doi.org/10.54791/27823792_2023_4_115_174
• “‘Fighting for the Right to Rule’: Towards an Institutional History of the Cultural Conflicts of the Stalinist Era (1930–1940s).” Letniaia shkola po russkoi literature, vol. 19, no. 1,  2023, pp. 154–173. 
• “Simplification of Stalinism: Aesthetic and Political Meanings of Soviet Culture in the 1920s and 1950s.” Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, no. 4 (182), 2023, pp. 350–359.
• “The Pushkin Studies of Academician V.V. Vinogradov and the Ideological Context of the Era of Stalinism.” Vremennik Pushkinskoi komissii, vol. 37, 2023, pp. 181–203.
• “‘In the Union, Everyone Should Read’: Reader as an Institution of the Soviet Culture.” Slověne, vol. 11, no 2, 2022, pp. 368–389. DOI: 10.31168/2305-6754.2022.11.2.16 
• “An Intellectual History of the Literature of Stalinism Bibliographical Review.” Letniaia shkola po russkoi literature, vol. 18, no. 1,  2022, pp. 107–126. 
• “From Self-criticism to Self-destruction: The Reorganization of the Soviet Aesthetic Canon in the Era of Late Stalinism.” Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, no. 4 (177), 2022, pp. 135–148.
• “The Cold War with ‘Modernism’: The International Stalin Prize in the Context of Late Stalinist Western-Soviet Literary Contacts.” ROSSICA. Literary contacts & Connections, no. 2, 2022, pp. 191–268. https://doi.org/10.54791/27823792_2022_2_191_268  
• “The Stalin Prize in the Literary Production System of the 1940s and Early 1950s: The Institutional Context of the Formation of the Socialist Realism Canon.” Letniaia shkola po russkoi literature, no. 3–4, 2021. pp. 347–370.
• “The State Stalin Prize for Literature in the Context of the Institutional History of the Culture of Late Stalinism: A Bibliographic Review.” Textology and the Historical and Literary Process. 9^th International Conference of Young Researchers: Collection of Articles. Moscow, Common Place Publ., 2022. 202 p.