Natalya P. Generalova

Generalova

DSc in Philology, Professor, publishing group for the works of Ivan Turgenev and Afanasy Fet in Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

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PhD thesis:

Anatoly Lunacharsky on the artistic forms of realism (1980)

DSc thesis:

Ivan Turgenev in the context of Russian-European literary ties (problems of biography and creative work) (2001)

Education and training, internships:

Graduated in Romance languages department of Leningrad State University's Philological Faculty in 1973; in 1975, enrolled for a postgraduate study at the Institute of Russian Literature. Joined the Institute of Russian Literature's Theoretical Investigations department in December 1978.

Scientific and organisational activities:

Member of the editorial board of Gorky IWL RAS scientific journal “Two Centuries of the Russian Classics”.

Editor and compiler of the periodicals – scientific collections “Ivan Turgenev: new investigations and materials” (Moscow; St. Petersburg, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2016. Issues 1 – 4), Afanasy Fet: materials and investigations (St. Petersburg, 2010, 2013, 2018, 2020. Issues Issues 1 – 4), etc.

Scientific Secretary of Turgenev Encyclopedia.

Head of the publishing group for the Complete works and letters of Ivan Turgenev in 30 volumes (editor-in-chief of the Working Editorial Board) and the Complete works and letters of Afanasy Fet in 20 volumes (member of the Editorial Board).

 

Selected scientific publications:

Monograph

Ivan Turgenev: Russia and Europe (from the history of Russian-European social and literary relations). St. Petersburg, 2003. 583 p. (In Russ.)

Editorial & compilation work

  • Afanasy Fet: materials and investigations. Issue 3: On the bicentenary of Afanasy Fet (1820–2018). St. Petersburg, 2018. 864 p. Editor in charge (jointly with V. A. Lukina). (In Russ.)
  • Lucretius. On the Nature of Things <translated by Afanasy Fet >. Publication of N. P. Generalova. In Afanasy Fet: materials and investigations. St. Petersburg, 2018. Issue 3, pp. 264–339. (In Russ.)
  • Ivan Turgenev’s (1859–1862) life and creative work chronicle. Editor in charge N. P. Generalova; contributing authors N. P. Generalova, S. A. Ipatova, V. A. Lukina. St. Petersburg, 2018. (In Russ.)
  • Complete works and letters of Ivan Turgenev in 30 volumes. Letters in 18 vols. Vol. 16, book 2. Moscow, 2018. 702 p. Editor (jointly with V. A. Lukina). (In Russ.)
  • Complete works and letters of Ivan Turgenev in 30 volumes. Letters in 18 vols. Vol. 16, book 1. Moscow, 2015. 702 p. (In Russ.)
  • Complete works and letters of Afanasy Fet in 20 volumes. Vol. 5. “Evening Lights”. Issue 4. Long and short poems of 1864–1892. St. Petersburg, 2015. 720 p. (In Russ.)

Web of Science / Scopus publications

Articles

  • What Raphael’s painting Afanasy Fet prayed in his childhood with (from commentary on “The Early Years of My Life”). Two Centuries of the Russian Classics, vol. 2, no. 2, 2020, pp. 184–191. DOI https://orcid.org/10.22455/2686-7494-2020-2-2-184-191 (In Russ.)
  • From the comments to “My Early Years” by Afanasy Fet. In The literary process in Russia of the 18th – 19th centuries. Secular and spiritual literature. To the 500th Anniversary of Moscow Novodevichy Convent. Issue 2, eds. M. I. Shcherbakova, V. G. Andreeva. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2020, pp. 480–492. DOI https://doi.org/10.22455/Lit.pr.2020-2-480-492 (In Russ.)
  • On the life philosophy of Athanasius Fet. Russian Literature, no. 2, 2020, pp. 3–13. (In Russ.)
  • On Turgenev’s Ideas of Aesthetics (Turgenev and Shakespeare). Russian Literature & Arts, no. 2, 2018, pp. 28–40 (In Chinese).
  • The Current Stage of Academic Turgenev Studies. Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences, vol. 88, no. 4, 2018, pp. 358–368. (In Russ.)
  • The current stage of academic Turgenev studies. Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2018, vol. 88, no. 9, pp. 793–803. DOI https://doi.org/10.31857/S086958730001692-9 (In Russ.)
  • Poetry and truth of Afanasy Fet. In Afanasy Fet: materials and investigations. St. Petersburg, 2018. Issue 3, pp. 5–36. (In Russ.)
  • The mysterious story of an autograph. In Afanasy Fet: materials and investigations. St. Petersburg, 2018. Issue 3, pp. 250–259. (In Russ.)
  • Commentator's notes. I. Which Afanasy Fet’s unknown poem Ivan Turgenev wanted to read. In Ivan Turgenev: new investigations and materials. Moscow; St. Petersburg, 2016. Issue 4, pp. 461–470. (In Russ.)
  • Commentator's notes. II. About the mistake of André Auguste Mazon, or When Sergey Nechayev appeared in “Virgin Soil”. In Ivan Turgenev: new investigations and materials. Moscow, St. Petersburg, 2016. Issue 4, pp. 470–484. (In Russ.)
  • Ivan Turgenev's “unknown” answer to Nikolay Chernyshevsky (on the second epilogue of the novel “Rudin”). In Ivan Turgenev: new investigations and materials. Moscow; St. Petersburg, 2016, Issue 4, pp. 19–57. (In Russ.)
  • Text as a fact of literary history (in terms of Complete works and letters of Afanasy Fet in 20 volumes). In From the history of text to the history of literature. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2015, pp. 333–357. (In Russ.)