Vladimir N. Zakharov

Zakharov

DSc in Philology, Professor, Head of the Department of Russian Literature and Journalism, Petrozavodsk State University, Petrozavodsk, Karelia Autonomy, Russia

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2709-4145

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PhD thesis:

Fantastic in aesthetics and creative work of Fyodor Dostoevsky (1975)

DSc thesis:

Fyodor Dostoevsky's system of genres: typology and poetics (1988)

Education and training, internships:

Graduated from the History and Philology Department of Petrozavodsk State University in 1972.

Scientific and organisational activities:

On the basis of developed textological principles, Vladimir Zakharov publishes the Complete Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky in the author's spelling and punctuation; such an almanac in which authentic texts are presented; in which the volume of publications of previously unknown texts, attributed to the writer for the first time, is significant (has been published by Petrozavodsk University Press since 1995).

The Complete Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky in 18 volumes (20 books) was published by “Sunday” press, edited by Vladimir Zakharov, in 2003–2005.

Founder and organiser of the international conferences “The Gospel text in Russian literature of the 18th–20th centuries: quotation, reminiscence, plot, motif, genre”.

He was elected vice-president of the aforementioned Russian writer's research community (International Dostoevsky Society, the IDS) at the 1998 General Assembly of the X Symposium in New York; since July 2013, president of the IDS.

Since 1985, Head of the Department of Russian Literature and Journalism at Petrozavodsk State University. Until 2001, Dean of the Faculty of Philology at Petrozavodsk State University. Since October 2001, employee of the Russian Humanities Research Foundation.

Editor-in-Chief of the journal “The Problems of Historical Poetics”

Editor-in-Chief of the journal “The Unknown Dostoevsky”

Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Challenges for Fyodor Dostoevsky's Textology”

Member of the editorial boards of the journals “Herald of Russian State Scientific Foundation”, “Two Centuries of the Russian Classics”, “Knowledge. Understanding. Skill”, “Herald of Gorky Literature Institute”, “Scientific Notes of Petrozavodsk State University”, the IDS “Dostoevsky Monographs”.

Awards:

1998 – Honorary Diploma of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation

1999 – Honorary title “Honoured Science Worker of the Republic of Karelia”

2000 – Honorary title “Honorary Worker of Higher Professional Education of the Russian Federation”.

2011 – Honorary title “Honorary Worker in Science and Technology of the Russian Federation”.

2019 – Diploma of Honour of Petrozavodsk State University

2020 – Medal “For Services to the Republic of Karelia”

 

Selected scientific publications:

Monographs

  • The author's name is Fyodor Dostoevsky. Sketch of the creative work. Moscow, Indrik Publ., 2013. 456 p. (In Russ.)
  • Problems of historical poetics: ethnological aspects. Moscow, Indrik Publ., 2012. 264 p. (In Russ.)
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky's system of genres: typology and poetics. Leningrad, Leningrad State University Publ., 1985. 209 p. (In Russ.)
  • Problems of studying Dostoevsky: textbook. Petrozavodsk, Petrozavodsk State University Publ., 1978. 110 p. (In Russ.)

Preparation for publication (compilation, scientific editing, commenting)

  • Challenges for Fyodor Dostoevsky's Textology. Issues 1–2. Petrozavodsk, Petrozavodsk State University Publ., 2009–2012. (In Russ.)
  • Complete Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky in 18 volumes. Drafting, writing texts. Moscow, Sunday Publ., 2003–2005. (In Russ.)
  • Dostoevsky F. M. Canonical texts. Complete Works in the author's spelling and punctuation edited by Professor V. N. Zakharov. Petrozavodsk, Petrozavodsk State University Publ, 1995– (Publishing ongoing, the last vol. to date is XI). (In Russ.)
  • New aspects of studying Fyodor Dostoevsky: collection of articles. Petrozavodsk, Petrozavodsk State University Publ., 1994. 368 p. URL: http://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=23912672 (In Russ.)
  • Modern problems of method, poetics and genres of Russian literature. Scientific editing, compilation. Petrozavodsk, 1991. (In Russ.)

Web of Science / Scopus publications

  • “The Easter Dimension of Dostoevsky’s Medical Theme.” Problemy istoricheskoy poetiki [The Problems of Historical Poetics], vol. 21, no. 3, 2023,  pp. 46–61. (In Russ.)
  • “Patient Dostoevsky.” Neizvestnyy Dostoevskiy [The Unknown Dostoevsky], vol. 10, no. 2, 2023, pp. 113–129. (In Russ.)
  • “How Many Handwritings Does Dostoevsky Have: Typology Tasks.” Neizvestnyy Dostoevskiy [The Unknown Dostoevsky], vol. 10, no. 3, 2023, pp. 42–62. (In Russ.)
  • The poetics of madness in Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky (polemic notes). The Problems of Historical Poetics, vol. 19, no. 2, 2021, pp. 92–106. (In Russ.)
  • The relevance of Dostoevsky. The Unknown Dostoevsky, vol. 8, no. 1, 2021, pp. 5–20. (In Russ.)
  • The idea of ethnopoetics in contemporary research. The Problems of Historical Poetics, vol. 18, no. 3, 2020, pp. 7–19. (In Russ.)
  • The brilliance of The Double: why don't critics understand Dostoevsky? The Unknown Dostoevsky, vol. 7, no. 3, 2020, pp. 31–53. (In Russ.)
  • Who reproached Dostoevsky for Christ – Bunin or Nabokov? The Unknown Dostoevsky, vol. 6, no. 1, 2019, pp. 164–167. (In Russ.)
  • One more time about the perspectives of the study of historical poetics. The Problems of Historical Poetics, vol. 16, no. 1, 2018, pp. 7–16. (In Russ.)
  • The poetics and genre of marginalia in Fedor Dostoevsky's notebooks and workbooks. The Problems of Historical Poetics, vol. 16, no. 3, 2018, pp. 85–100. (In Russ.)
  • F.M. Dostoyevsky’s polemical notes on N. N. Strakhov. Russian literature, no. 4, 2017, pp. 61–69. (In Russ.)
  • On the status of editorials in Dostoevsky's periodicals. The Unknown Dostoevsky, vol. 4, no. 1, 2017, pp. 3–17. (In Russ.)
  • Do we have literature? Concepts literature and slovesnost’ in Russian criticism. The Problems of Historical Poetics, no. 14, 2016, pp. 7–15. (In Russ.)

Articles

  • Why are philologists no longer needed? Memoirs of NovSU, no. 1 (26), 2020, pp. 36. (In Russ.)
  • Thesaurus analysis and the issue of the attribution of editorials in Dostoevsky’s “Grazhdanin” (1873–1874). The Horizons of Humanities Knowledge, no. 5, 2019, pp. 104–116. (In Russ.)
  • Who is a genius, who is Shakespeare? From the anthropological discoveries of Dostoevsky. Russian literature, no. 2, 2018, pp. 3–8. (In Russ.)
  • What happened to Dostoyevsky’s archive from the 1840s? Knowledge. Understanding. Skill, no. 3, 2014, pp. 287–296. (In Russ.)
  • Unpublished autograph of Dostoyevsky: Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Sergey Koloshin. Scientific Notes of Petrozavodsk State University, no. 7-2 (136), 2013, pp. 58–61. (In Russ.)

Teaching activities:

Since 1985, Head of the Department of Russian Literature and Journalism at Petrozavodsk State University. Until 2001, Dean of the Faculty of Philology at Petrozavodsk State University. Since October 2001, an employee of the Russian Humanities Research Foundation.