Yuriy V. Lebedev

Lebedev

DSc in Philology, Professor of Russian Philology Department of Kostroma State University, Kostroma, Russia

Education:

Graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology at Nekrasov Kostroma State Pedagogical Institute in 1952 and completed the postgraduate studies at the Department of Russian Literature at Herzen Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute in 1966.

PhD thesis:

The 1840s–50s long poems by Nikolay Nekrasov (1966)

DSc thesis:

Formation of the epic in Russian literature in the 1840s–60s. Challenges of cyclisation (1979).

Scientific and organisational activities:

The author of a series of textbooks for secondary and higher schools that have appeared in numerous editions and are recommended by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.

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

Member of the editorial board of the journal “Vestnik of Kostroma State University”.

Organiser and spokesperson of a number of international and interregional scientific conferences: “Alexander Ostrovsky in the New Millennium”, “Mikhail Lermontov and Russian Literature of the 19th Century”, “Aleksey Pleshcheyev and Russian Literature”, “Spiritual and Moral Foundations of Russian Literature”, “Readings of Yevgeniy Osetrov”, “Readings of Igor' Dedkov”, the annual theological and educational “Readings of Nikon Ignat'yev”.

Honours and awards:

1995 – Honoured Science Worker of the Russian Federation

2000 – Medal of the Order “For Merit to the Fatherland”

2000 – Honorary Citizen of Kostroma

2003 – 3rd class Order of Holy Prince Daniel of Moscow of the Russian Orthodox Church

2003 – 3rd class Order of Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia of the Russian Orthodox Church

2005 – 3rd class Order of Venerable Sergius of Radonezh of the Russian Orthodox Church

2020 – 2nd class Order of Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow

Honorary Citizen of Kostroma Region

 

Scientific publications – over 480 publications, including 17 monographs.

Selected scientific publications:

Monographs

  • Nikolay Nekrasov and the Russian poem of the 1840s–50s. Yaroslavl, The Upper-Volga Book Publ., 1971. 136 p. (In Russ.)
  • Mid-century. Historical and literary feature articles. Moscow, Contemporary publishing house, 1988. 384 p. (In Russ.)
  • Ivan Turgenev. Moscow, Molodaya Gvardiya (Young Guard) Publ., 1990. (The Lives of Remarkable People. Series of biographies: Issue 706). 608 p. (In Russ.)
  • The spiritual origins of Russian classics. The 19th-century poetry. Historical and literary feature articles. Moscow, Classics Style Publ., 2005. 256 p. (In Russ.)
  • Russian literature of the 19th century. 10 form. Textbook for secondary schools. In 2 parts. Recommended by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. 7th edition. Part 1. Moscow, Enlightenment publishing house, 2005. 381 p; part 2. Moscow, Enlightenment publishing house, 2005. 383 p. (In Russ.)
  • History of the 19th century Russian literature. In 3 parts. Recommended by the Education Association for higher pedagogical education as a textbook for students. Part 1. Moscow, Enlightenment publishing house, 2007. 480 p. Part 2. Moscow, Enlightenment publishing house, 2007. 479 p. Part 3. Moscow, Enlightenment publishing house Publ., 2008. 479 p. (In Russ.)
  • Orthodox tradition in the 19th century Russian literature. Collection of scientific articles. Kostroma, Nekrasov Kostroma State University Publ., 2010. 428 p. (In Russ.)
  • “Oh you Russian native word!” Pages of the history of Russian literature. Collection of scientific articles. Kostroma, Nekrasov Kostroma State University Publ., 2014. 512 p. (In Russ.)
  • Milestones in the life and creative work of Ivan Turgenev. Kostroma, Kostroma State University Publ., 2018. 212 p. (In Russ.)
  • Russian literature of the 19th century: lecture course for undergraduate theology: in 2 volumes. Moscow, Cognition publishing house, 2020. Vol. 1, 656 p.; vol. 2, 608 p. (In Russ.)

Articles

  • The ideal of the popular monarchy in Russian literature of the second half of the 19th – the early 20th centuries. Two Centuries of the Russian Classics, vol. 2, no. 2, 2020, pp. 8–25. DOI https://orcid.org/10.22455/2686-7494-2020-2-2-8-25 (In Russ.)
  • “If there’s no love, then there’s God neither, bear in mind!”. In To Valentin Semyonovich Nepomnyashchiy. Collected scientific works. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2020, pp. 185–194. (In Russ.)
  • Patristic conceptions of labor and property in the Russian literature of the XIX century. Ipatievsky Vestnik. Scientific and theological journal of Kostroma Monastery dedicated to Saint Hypatius of Gangra, no. 1-2(7-8), 2019, pp. 131–159. (In Russ.)
  • About Gogol’s realism. Literature at School. no. 3, 2019, pp. 2–7. (In Russ.)
  • Creative history of a “Spring's Tale” “The Snow Maiden” by Alexander Ostrovsky. Vestnik of Kostroma State University, no. 1, 2019, pp. 130–137. (In Russ.)
  • “It's all of mother bronze; this whole century will not be!” which of the works of the outstanding Russian classic writer A. F. Pisemsky and why should be included in the modern school curriculum in literature? Russian Literature, no. 1, 2019, pp. 8–24. (In Russ.)
  • Alexander Ostrovsky's “The Snow Maiden. A Spring's Tale” in the 1870s literary process. Vestnik of Kostroma State University, no. 2, 2019, pp. 124–130. (In Russ.)
  • On the study of Russian classical literature. Literature at School, no. 11, 2019, pp. 2–5. (In Russ.)
  • Surikov Ivan Zakharovich. In Russian authors. 1800–1917. In Biographical dictionary. Vol. 6. Moscow; Saint Petersburg, 2019, pp. 137–139. (In Russ.)
  • Tragic dissonance of the heart and mind in the soul of Yevgeny Bazarov. Literature at School, no. 5, 2018, pp. 7–14. (In Russ.)
  • In memoriam Professor Aleksandr Ivanovich Gruzdev (on the occasion of 110 years of the birth). Vestnik of Kostroma State University, no. 1, 2018, pp. 251–257. (In Russ.)
  • “A Sportsman's Sketches” in German artistic idea of the 2nd half of the 19th century (commemorating Ivan Turgenev's 200th birth anniversary). Vestnik of Kostroma State University, no. 3, 2018, pp. 79–85. (In Russ.)
  • Moscow in creative destiny of Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev. Moscow Journal, no. 12, 2018, pp. 8–24. (In Russ.)
  • On the Christian “pictures of life” in Leo Tolstoy's novels. In The Russian Classics. Collection of articles for the 80th birthday and the 60th anniversary of scholarly work of Nikolay Skatov, the corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Saint Petersburg, Sprout Publ., 2017, pp. 432–445. (In Russ.)
  • The comedy “Money to Burn” by Alexander Ostrovsky in the 1880s-90s literary process. Vestnik of Nekrasov Kostroma State University, no. 1, 2016, pp. 89–93. (In Russ.)
  • On religious motifs in “War and Peace” by Leo Tolstoy. Vestnik of Nekrasov Kostroma State University, no. 2, 2016, pp. 95–100. (In Russ.)
  • Christian and Russian folklore motifs in Nikolay Nekrasov's poetry. Vestnik of Nekrasov Kostroma State University, no. 4, 2016, pp. 59–64. (In Russ.)
  • At the cradle of Alexander Ostrovsky’s drama. Vestnik of Nekrasov Kostroma State University, no. 2, 2017, pp. 74–79. (In Russ.)
  • On the national originality of Russian lyrics. In Spiritual and moral foundations of Russian literature. Collection of scientific articles. Kostroma, Kostroma State University Publ., 2016, pp. 3–7. (In Russ.)
  • Russian classical literature on the spiritual foundations of labor, property and national school. Literature at School, no. 4, 2015, pp. 2–8. (In Russ.)
  • Russian belief in the sanctity of writer's labour. Governor's House. Local history and literary magazine, no. 1(98), 2015, pp. 2–8. (In Russ.)