Korovin

DSc in Philology, Assistant Professor, Philological faculty, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

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Education: graduated from Russian language and literature, Faculty of Philology of Lomonosov Moscow State University (1996).

PhD thesis:

Semyon Sergeyevich Bobrov. Life and creative work (2000)

DSc thesis:

Biblical themes in Russian poetry in the 18th – the 1st half of the 19th century (2017).

Scientific and organisational activities:

Scientific editor of the journal “Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Studies in Literature and Language” (since 2016)

Member of the editorial board of the journal “Two Centuries of the Russian Classics”

Member of the editorial board of the journal “Moscow University Philology Bulletin” (since 2020)

Member of dissertation councils МГУ.10.05 (Lomonosov Moscow State University) and Д 002.209.02 (Gorky IWL RAS).

 

Scientific publications – more than 150 publications, including 2 monographs.

Selected scientific publications:

Monographs

  • Semyon Sergeyevich Bobrov. Life and creative work. Moscow, Academia Publ., 2004. 320 p. (In Russ.)
  • The Book of Job in Russian poetry in the 18th – the 1st half of the 19th century. Moscow, Aquarius publishing house, 2017. 208 p. (In Russ.)

Prepared publications

  • “Bless the Lord, my soul!..”: psalms by Russian poets. Compilation, foreword and notes by V. L. Korovin. Moscow, Eksmo Publ., 2019. 608 p. (In Russ.)
  • The Golden Age of Russian Poetry: Lyrics. Compilation, introductory article and notes by V. L. Korovin. Moscow, Eksmo Publ., 2018. 384 p. (In Russ.)
  • Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin. Introductory article and commentary by V. L. Korovin. Moscow, Eksmo Publ., 2016. 512 p. (In Russ.)
  • Prayers of Russian poets. Compilation, introductory article and comments by V. L. Korovin. Moscow, Eksmo Publ., 2015. 640 p. (In Russ.)
  • Russian poets of the 18th century. Compilation, introductory article and notes by V. L. Korovin. Moscow, Eksmo Publ., 2015. 288 p. (In Russ.)
  • The Golden Age of Russian Poetry. Compilation, foreword and comments by V. L. Korovin. Moscow, Eksmo Publ., 2013. 608 p. (In Russ.)
  • Tyutchev F. I. Poems. Introductory article and comments by V. L. Korovin. Moscow, Eksmo Publ., 2012. 608 p. (In Russ.)
  • Bobrov, Semyon S. The Coming of Midnight at Chersonesus: in 2 volumes. Publication prepared by V. L. Korovin. Moscow, Nauka Publ., 2008. 650+622 p. (In Russ.)

Web of Science / Scopus publications

  • The ode “Idolatry” and spiritual Derzhavin’s songs of the 1810th. Moscow University Philology Bulletin, no. 1, 2017, pp. 114–126. (In Russ.)
  • The Book of Job in Russian versifications of the 18th–19th centuries (the fragment of the Behemoth and the Leviathan). Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Studies in Literature and Language. vol. 75, no. 1, 2016, pp. 17–28. (In Russ.)
  • Kheraskov and Milton: “The Universe” and “Paradise Lost”. Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Studies in Literature and Language, vol. 75, no. 6, 2016, pp. 48–54. (In Russ.)
  • Derzhavin in the History of Russian Literature (scientific conference at the Faculty of Philology, Moscow State Lomonosov). Moscow University Philology Bulletin, no. 5, 2016, pp. 225–231. (In Russ.)
  • G.R. Derzhavin and year 1812: on the meaning and composition of “A Hymn, Lyric-and-Epic, on Making the French Retreat from Fatherland”. Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Studies in Literature and Language, vol. 71, no. 6, 2012, pp. 42–52. (In Russ.)
  • “Notes from a pedant” the narrative poem “The Mysterious Drop” by Fyodor Glinka and the reader of the latter, Mikhail Dmitriyev. Russian Studies in Literature, no. 3(97), 2009, pp. 178–203. (In Russ.)
  • Pushkin – Bobrov – Ovid (on the opening strophae of the 8th chapter of “Eugene Onegin”. Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Studies in Literature and Language, vol. 66, no. 3, 2007, pp. 41–47. (In Russ.)
  • Materials for the bibliography of works and translations of Semyon Bobrov. Russian Studies in Literature. no. 2(42), 2000, pp. 420–429. (In Russ.)

Articles

  • Alexander Pushkin and Yelizaveta Kheraskova: on the idyllic motifs in the narrative poem “The Bronze Horseman” and on one of the literary sources of the latter. In Universals of Russian Literature. 8. Collection of articles. Scientific editing A. A. Faustov, Matthias Freise. Voronezh, Voronezh State University Publ., 2020, pp. 357–373. (In Russ.)
  • On Christian motifs in “Éloa” by Konstantin Sluchevsky amidst “Éloa” by Alfred de Vigny. In Presymbolism – faces and reflections, eds. Ye. A. Takho-Godi. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2020, pp. 257–271. (In Russ.)
  • I.A. Krylov – author of spiritual odes. Russian Literature, no. 4, 2019, pp. 69–78. (In Russ.)
  • On the cycle of I. A. Krylov’s spiritual odes. Literaturovedčeskij Žurnal (literary journal). Language and Literature Section, no. 46, 2019, pp. 108–129. (In Russ.)
  • “A crocodile was peeking out of the Nile”: of Egyptian animals and demons in the poems by Fyodor Glinka. In Bestiary of motions (RES et VERBA-6). Tula, Aquarius publishing house, 2018, pp. 56–68. (In Russ.)
  • On Ivan Turgenev's poems and his debut in Otechestvennye Zapiski (Annals of the Fatherland) (“The Old Landlord”). In Otechestvennye Zapiski (Annals of the Fatherland). 2018. Jubilee edition 1818–2018, .pp 122–129. (In Russ.)
  • “Taurica” by S. S. Bobrov in “Eugene Onegin” by A. S. Pushkin: (notes for the comment). In A. S. Pushkin and the book. Collection of articles. Issue II. Under the general editorship of N. I. Mikhaylova. Moscow, ICARUS publishing house, 2018, pp. 36–47. (In Russ.)
  • “Shakespeare's Spirits” by Wilhelm Küchelbecker in “Eugene Onegin” by A. S. Pushkin. In Boldino readings 2018. Nizhny Novgorod, Lobachevsky Nizhny Novgorod State University press, 2018, pp. 22–31. (In Russ.)
  • Lomonosov Mikhail Vasilyevich. In Orthodox Encyclopedia. Vol. 41. Moscow, Orthodox Encyclopedia Publ., 2016, pp. 414–420. (In Russ.)
  • How Old Derzhavin passed the lyre: (on the “Young Singers” and the “Young Tsar” in “Lyroepic Hymn”). In Derzhavin Novgorod Collection (on the bicentenary of the poet's death). Veliky Novgorod, Novgorod State University named after Yaroslav the Wise Publ., 2016, pp. 84–97. (In Russ.)
  • On the content and genre peculiarities of S. A. Shirinsky-Shikhmatov's poem “Jesus in the New and the Old Testaments, or the Nights by the cross”. Vestnik of Lobachevsky University of Nizhni Novgorod, no. 2, 2016, pp. 229–233. (In Russ.)
  • On Derzhavin's ode “Glory” (1810) and his political and religious views on the eve of the Patriotic War of 1812. Literaturovedčeskij Žurnal (literary journal). Language and Literature Section, no. 39, 2016, pp. 32–45. (In Russ.)
  • On the literary sources of the narrative poem “The Bronze Horseman” by Alexander Pushkin: (“The Flood” by Salomon Gessner and Yelizaveta Kheraskova). In Boldino readings 2016. Arzamas, 2016, pp. 117–139. (In Russ.)
  • Karamzin as a translator of the Haller’s poem “On the Origin of Evil”. Literaturovedčeskij Žurnal (literary journal). Language and Literature Section, no. 40, 2016, pp. 185–193. (In Russ.)
  • “Eugene Onegin” in Alexander Pushkin’s life and Alexander Pushkin’s life in “Eugene Onegin”. In Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin. Introductory article and commentary by V. L. Korovin. Moscow, Eksmo Publ., 2016, pp. 9–74. (In Russ.)
  • Comments. In Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin. Introductory article and commentary by V. L. Korovin. Moscow, Eksmo Publ., 2016, pp. 343–509. (In Russ.)
  • “…Behemoth and Leviathan, which I Made with Thee”: Behemoth and Leviathan depicted by Mikhail Lomonosov and Nikolai Nikolev. In Bestiary code of culture: collection of articles. Moscow, Intrada Publ., 2015, pp. 115–122. (In Russ.)
  • Küchelbecker, Wilhelm Ludwig von. In Orthodox Encyclopedia. Vol. 39. Moscow, Orthodox Encyclopedia Publ., 2015, pp. 540–543. (In Russ.)
  • Lermontov Mikhail Yuryevich. In Orthodox Encyclopedia. Vol. 40. Moscow, Orthodox Encyclopedia Publ., 2015, pp. 595–600. (In Russ.)
  • “Above their eyebrows hell's inscription...”: (on the humorous citation of Dante in the “Eugene Onegin” and on its unnoticed pattern from “The Tauris” by Semyon Bobrov). Literaturovedčeskij Žurnal (literary journal). Language and Literature Section, no. 37, 2015, pp. 82–88. (In Russ.)
  • On the theological aspects of “Ode Selected from the Job” by M. V. Lomonosov. In Almanac dedicated to Metropolitan Philaret (V. M. Drozdov). Issue 11. Moscow, publishing house of Saint Tikhon's Orthodox University, 2015, pp. 93–100. (In Russ.)
  • Mikhail Lomonosov in the criticism of the 1st third of the 19th century: classical author and cultural myth. In Collection of research papers in memory of Nikolay Liban. Moscow, “Circle” publishing house, 2015, pp. 338–349. (In Russ.)
  • On biblical motives in the “Demon” by Lermontov in relation to his creative career: (from Byron to Milton). Literaturovedčeskij Žurnal (literary journal). Language and Literature Section, no. 35, 2014, pp. 18–33. (In Russ.)
  • Mikhail Lomonosov and the Bible: “An Ode Selected from the Book of Job” and the Book of Job. In Mikhail Lomonosov and Orthodoxy: Collection of articles on the creative work of Mikhail Lomonosov. Moscow, 2014, pp. 75–97. (In Russ.)
  • “Ode selected from Job” in the context of the spiritual odes by M. V. Lomonosov. Vestnik of Lobachevsky University of Nizhni Novgorod, no. 2, part. 2, 2014, pp. 204–210. (In Russ.)
  • On the genre of “religious poem” in Russian literature of 1820–1840-s, and on the poems of S. A. Shirinsky-Shikhmatov, A. N. Muravyov, and F. N. Glinka/ In Almanac dedicated to Metropolitan Philaret (V. M. Drozdov). Issue 10. Moscow, Saint Tikhon's Orthodox University Publ., 2014, pp. 171–193. (In Russ.)
  • “St. Macarius’ Vision” – the unpublished narrative poem by Fyodor Glinka. In Compilation in memoriam A. M. Peskov. Moscow, Russian State University for the Humanities Publ., 2013, pp. 463–505. (In Russ.)
  • “El espíritu infernal surgió del abismo”: “El Demonio” y el género del poema religioso. Mijail Lermontov: El genio rebelde. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2012, pp. 41–50. (In Spanish)
  • El gran poeta ruso Lermontov. Yasnaia Poliana. Revista de la literatura rusa. 2. Lermontov. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2012, pp. 11–18. (In Spanish)

Teaching activities:

Associate Professor at the Department of the History of Russian Literature, Faculty of Philology, Lomonosov Moscow State University (since 2000).