Lyudmila F. Lutsevich

Lutzevitch

DSc in Philology, Professor, Head of the Department of Eastern European Cultural Studies of the Faculty of Applied Linguistics, Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6340-2598

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Education:

Graduated from the Philological Faculty of Kishinev State University in 1973; in 1980, postgraduate studies at the Russian Literature Department of Herzen Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute.

Refresher courses and internships in different years: Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute, Moscow State University, Literary Museum of the Institute of Russian Literature.

PhD thesis:

Poetry by Alexander Sumarokov (1980)

DSc thesis:

Russian Psalter poetry: 18th century verses of psalms (2002)

Scientific and organisational activities:

Member of the Academic Council of the Faculty of Applied Linguistics at the University of Warsaw, specialising in Russian literature.

Scientific supervisor of a number of research projects, including Ego Document and Literature, Literary Russian Studies, Transfer in Literature and Culture, Autobiography-ism in Russian Literature, etc.

Member of editorial boards of several international publications: “Two centuries of the Russian classics” (IWL RAS, Moscow), “Studi@ Naukowe” (the University of Warsaw, Poland), “Studia Rossica Gedanensia” (Gdańsk University, Poland), Mirgorod (Siedlce University, the City of Siedlce, Poland), “Pskov State University Bulletin” (Pskov, Russia), “Cherepovets State University Bulletin” (Cherepovets, Russia) etc.

Member of several international scientific societies: Polish Slavonic Society, Emigrantology Commission of the International Slavonic Committee, International Laboratory for the Investigations of Russian-European Intellectual Dialogue (Moscow, Higher School of Economics), The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing (OCLW) et al.

 

Scientific publications — around 300 works, including 7 monographs, 2 teacher and student handbooks, 1 archival manuscript prepared for publication.

Selected scientific publications:

Monographs

  • The Psalter in Russian poetry. St. Petersburg, Dmitriy Bulanin’s Publ., 2002. 608 p. (In Russ.)
  • The memory of the psalm: sacrum/profanum in modern Russian poetry. Warszawa, Wyd. Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2009. 487 p. (In Russ.)
  • Autobiographical confessions in literature: pretexts, texts, contexts. Moscow, IWL RAS, Nauka (Science) Publ., 2020, 502 p. (In Russ.)

Web of Science / Scopus publications

  • “My confession” of Prince P. A. Vyazemsky. The Problems of Historical Poetics, no. 3, vol. 18, 2020, pp. 82–112. DOI https://doi.org/10.15393/j9.art.2020.8022 (In Russ.)
  • Żejmo B. Płaczący Ezop. Życie i twórczość Wsiewoloda Garszyna.Toruń: Wydawnictwo naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu, 2017. 438 s.  Russian Studies in Literature, no. 3(151), 2018, pp. 371–373. (In Polish)
  • A Polish monograph on Valery Briusov’s poetry (review of: Gozdek A. Kobiety mityczne w poezji Walerija Briusowa. Dialog z tradycj. Lublin, 2017). Russian Studies in Literature, no. 2(150), 2018, pp. 341–345. (In Russ.)
  • Baroque labyrinths. Russian Studies in Literature, no. 4(143), 2017, pp. 371–375. (In Russ.).
  • Press as a space of cultural-historical transfers (review of the international conference). Voprosy Filosofii, no. 6, 2016, pp. 208–214. (Co-authored with T. Shchedrina) (In Russ.)

Articles

  • Christianisation of Russia and the experience of “confessing about oneself”. Przegląd Rusycystyczny, no. 1 (173), 2021, pp. 32–60. DOI https://doi.org/10.31261/8983  (In Polish)
  • “I am a natural artist”: literary confession of Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy/ In St Petersburg Press and Word (St Petersburg Readings – 2020): collection of scientific papers. Saint Petersburg, St Petersburg State University of Industrial Technology & Design Publ., 2021, pp. 149–161. (In Russ.)
  • Autobiographical nature of the novel “Confessions of a Non-Heroine” by Lyudmila Kol'. In Writers and critics of the 1st half of the 20th century: predecessors, followers (unforgotten and forgotten names): collective monograph, eds. L. A. Kolobayeva, S. I. Kormilov, A. V. Nazarova; compiled by A. V. Nazarova. Moscow, Common Place Publ., 2021, pp. 304–314. (In Russ.)
  • “My confessions have no moral purpose” (“My Confession” by Nikolay Karamzin). Two centuries of the Russian classics, 2020, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 46–65. DOI https://doi.org/10.22455/2686-7494-2020-2-2-46-65 (In Russ.)
  • Peter Abelard as interpreted by Georgy Fedotov. In Philosophical letters. Russian-European dialogue, vol. 3, no. 2, 2020, pp. 268–282. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17323/2658-5413-2020-3-2-268-282 (In Russ.)
  • The Russian Finland cottage topos: “White Night” by Leonid Andreyev. In Phenomenon of the Russian literary estate: from Anton Chekhov to Vladimir Sorokin, compiled by O. A. Bogdanova. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2020, pp. 138–151. DOI https://doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0627-7 (In Russ.)
  • Confessions of modern women. In Kobiety w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej w perspektywie interdyscyplinarnej. Warszawa, Wyd. Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2020, pp. 269–285. (In Russ.)
  • Some kind of universal confession is coming: 19th-century Russian authorial confession. In Spowiedź i kazanie w kulturze i literaturze. Uniwersytetu Przyrodniczo-Humanistycznego w Siedlcach, 2020, pp. 81–105. (In Russ.)
  • “One needs <…> to become a true Christian” (Nikolai Gogol on Christian service). In Nikolai Gogol and Russian spiritual culture. 19th Gogol Readings, collection of scientific articles on the materials of the international scientific conference in Jerusalem (Israel), March 29 – April 4, 2019; under general editorship of V. P. Vikulova. Moscow; Novosibirsk: Novosibirsk Publishing House, 2020, pp. 48–53. (In Russ.)
  • The three faces of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Dmitry Filosofov, Vasily Rozanov). Solovyov studies, Issue 1(61), 2019, pp. 127–140. (In Russ.).
  • “The printed word was becoming increasingly important…”. Rusycystyczne Studia Literaturoznawcze, no. 29,  2019, pp. 13–38. (In Russ.)
  • “All the life appears to be just a game...”. In Antropologiczne aspekty literatury. Prace ofiarowane Profesor Wandzie Supie, Red. W. Biegluk-Leś, Białystok, Wyd. Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku, 2019, pp. 67–87. (In Russ.)
  • Alexander Herzen as a thinker in the interpretation of Vasiliy Zen’kovskiy. In Literature and philosophy: from Romanticism to the 20th century. To the 50th anniversary of the death of Vladimir Odoyevsky, editor Ye. A. Takho-Godi. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., Aquarius publishing house, 2019, pp. 500–510. (In Russ.)
  • Confession in the space of culture: some observations in light of the reflections of Juri Lotman. In The dynamic structure of text. eds. Mihail Lotman, Tatyana Kuzovkina, Ewelina Pilarczyk. Kraków, Wyd. Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 2019, pp. 135–155. (In Russ.)
  • “Confession” in Dmitry Merezhkovsky's biographical essay “Augustine”. In Dmitry Merezhkovsky: Writer – Critic – Thinker. Collection of articles, editor-compiler O. A. Korostelyov, A. A. Kholikov. Moscow, Dmitry Sechin’s publishing house Publ., Literary Fact, 2018, pp. 157–171. (In Russ.)
  • The 19th-century Russian author's confession. In Z Polskich Studiów Slawistycznych. Seria 13, vol. 1. Literaturoznawstwo. Kulturoznawstwo. Folklorystyka. Prace na XVI Międzynarodowy Kongres Slawistów w Belgradzie 2018. Eds. Bogusław Zieliński, Poznań, Wyd. Naukowe Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza Publ., 2018, pp. 157–167. (In Polish)
  • „My...three faces...” (The experience of diary autorepresentation of Mikhail Kuzmin)/ In St Petersburg press and word (St Petersburg Readings – 2018) / compilers & scientific eds N. V. Averina, T. P. Vyazovik, M. D. Kuz’mina, A. V. Smirnov, L. V. Nazarova. Saint Petersburg, St Petersburg State University of Industrial Technology & Design, 2018, pp. 167–174. (In Russ.)
  • “Business conversation” between a writer and a politician in the feature article       “Józef Piłsudski” by Dmitry Merezhkovsky. In Literatura rosyjska: idee, poetyki, interpretacje. Księga ofiarowana Pani Profesor Alicji Wołodźko-Butkiewicz, eds. Piotra Fasta, Ludmiły Łucewicz, Barbary Stempczyńskiej. Biblioteka “Przeglądu Rusycystycznego”, Katowice, Wyd. Naukowe Stowarzyszenie Inicjatyw Wydawniczych, no. 24, 2018, pp. 217–233. (In Russ.)
  • Documentary, ego-document, Russian writer's confession. In Document and “Documentary” in Slavic Literatures: Between the real and the imaginary: collection of articles, eds. by N. M. Kurennaya. Moscow, Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences Publ., 2018, pp. 41–62. DOI https://doi.org/10.31168/0402-2  (In Russ.).
  • “I shall speak as I saw, as I felt – from my heart…”. In Text and tradition: almanac, 6, editor-in-Chief Eugene Vodolazkin. IWL RAS Publ., Leo Tolstoy museum estate Yasnaya Polyana. St Petersburg, Sprout publishing house, 2018, pp. 107–127. (In Russ.)
  • “My own words about myself” (three confessions of European culture). Philosophical letters: A Russian-European dialogue. Moscow, Higher School of Economics Publ., vol. 1, no. 1, 2018, pp. 74–96. (In Russ.)
  • “Is there any meaning in my life that would not be destroyed by death inevitably coming to me?” (Leo Tolstoy's confessional reflections on death). In Slavica Wratislaviensia, Wielkie tematy kultury w literaturach słowiańskich, vol. 13, Tanatos, red. Elżbieta Tyszkowska-Kasprzak, współpraca Sylwia Kamińska-Maciąg. Wrocław, Wyd. Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, 2018, pp. 191–203. (In Russ.)
  • Heartfelt confession of Catherine II of Russia. In Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Rossica, no. 11: Typy twórczości literackiej – od mistrza pióra do grafomana, eds. E. Sadzińska, A. Szymańska. Łódz, Wyd. Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018, pp. 75–87. (In Russ.).
  • “Here is my confession; serious and resolute it is...”. Emperor Nicholas I on Russian politics. Przegląd Rusycystyczny, no. 3(163), 2018, pp. 192–214. (In Russ.)
  • Leo Tolstoy's early diaries as auto-text of “Confessions”. In Studia Rossica Gedanensia, red. nacz. Katarzyna Wojan. Gdańsk, Wyd. Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, vol. 5, 2018, pp. 185–199. (In Russ.)
  • On the issue of inter-genre interactions and forms of self-representation in Fin de siècle diaristics. In “High fret, deep peace”: between realism and postmodernism, eds. E. Kozak, W. Krupowies, B. Stelingowskiej, J. Tkaczyk. Siedlce, Wyd. Uniwersytetu Przyrodniczo-Humanistycznego w Siedlcach Publ., 2018, pp. 341–358. (In Russ.)

 

Teaching activities:

1973–1984 – Assistant, later senior lecturer of Shevchenko Tiraspol Pedagogical Institute.

1984–2003 – Senior Lecturer, later Associate Professor at Lenin Kishinev State University.

Since 2003 – Titular Professor at the University of Warsaw.