Michel Niqueux

Niquex

DSc in Philology, 

Professor Emeritus at the University of Caen, Normandy

Education:

Graduated from the University of Toulouse (1967)

DSc thesis:

Sergey Klychkov and Issies of Peasant Literature

Research interests:

Russian literature, history of ideas, cultural anthropology, annotated editions of Russian poets and writers. 

Professional Service:

  • Founder of the Research Center for the Study of the Evolution of the USSR at the University of Caen (1989)
  • Member of the Editorial Board of “Revue des études slaves”;
  • Member of the Editorial Board of “La Revue russe”;
  • Member of the Editorial Board of “Modern Yesenin Studies”

Teaching Activity:

Graduated from the Faculty of Russian Language, Doctor of Sciences (1985) Michel Niquet taught French in Leningrad and Moscow (1970–1972), then, from 1973 to 2012, taught Russian literature and civilization at the University of Caen, twice was a visiting professor at the University of Lausanne for a semester. He is currently an honorary professor at the University of Caen.

 

Scientific publications — more than 200 scientific publications.

Selected publications

Books (author, editor-compiler)

  • Dictionnaire Pouchkine. Paris, Institut d’Études Slaves, 2025. 356 p.
  • Dictionnaire Gogol. Paris, Institut d’Études Slaves, 2023. 366 p.
  • Le Conservatisme Russe d’Aujourd’hui. Essai de Généalogie. Caen, Presses Universitaires de Caen, 2022. 315 p.
  • A Guide to Dostoevsky. Paris, Institute of Slavic Studies, 2021. 320 p.
  • Julia Danzas 1879–1942. From the Imperial Court to the Red Penal Servitude. Geneva, Sirte Publishing House, 2020. 398 p.
  • The West Through the Eyes of Russia. An Anthology of Russian Thought from Karamzin to Putin. Paris, Institute of Slavic Studies, 2017. 790 p.
  • Correspondance en Français Entre Alexis Konstantinovitch Tolstoï et Boleslav Markévitch (1858–1875). Controverses Littéraires et Politiques. Lyon, Centre d’Études Slaves, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, 2015. 370 p.
  • Nikolai Klyuev. Memoirs of Contemporaries. Comment. by L.A. Kiseleva with the participation of T.A. Kravchenko, Michel Nike and S.I. Subbotin. Moscow, Progress-Pleiada Publ., 2010. 886 p.
  • Utopia in Russia. St. Petersburg, Hyperion Publ., 2003. 
  • Russian Question. Essays on Russian Nationalism. Paris, University Edition, 1992.
  • Dictionary of perestroika. Paris, 1990.

Selected Essays

  • “Conversation Between Bonaparte and an English Traveller. An unpublished French Work by Alexander Ulybyshev (1819).” Napoleonica, no. 1 (5), 2023, pp. 33–48.
  • “Petr A. Druzhinin, The Soviet Suppression of Academia. The Case of Konstantin Azadovsky.” Cahiers du Monde Russe, vol. 64, no. 3, 2023, pp. 695–698.  https://doi.org/10.4000/monderusse.14205
  • “Ekphrasis in Gorky's ‘Life of Klim Samgin’.” Maxim Gorky: Pro et Contra, an Anthology. St. Petersburg, RHGA Publ., 2018, pp. 790-794.
  • “French Transposition of ‘The St. Petersburg Slums’ OF Vs. Krestovsky: ‘The St. Petersburg Secrets’ of Ivan Doff (1877–1878).” Izvestiya of the Samara Science Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Social, humanitarian, medicobiological sciences, vol. 19, no. 2–1, 2017. pp. 112–116. In Russ. 
  • “From Unpublished Letters of A.K. Tolstoy to B.M. Markevich.” Izvestiya of the Samara Science Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Social, humanitarian, medicobiological sciences, vol.18, no. 2, 2016, pp. 223–226. In Russ.

Scopus / Web of Science Publications

  • “French Russian Studies: Tradition and Innovation.” Voprosy literatury, no. 5, 2009, pp. 454–472.