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Mailing Address Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) 3, University Embankment St.Petersburg, 199034, Russia Residential address: Fontanka, 2, kv. 617, St.Petersburg, 191187, Russia

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Research Interests The Mahabharata, its genesis (particularly in connection with oral epic tradition), development and typological definition; myth, ritual and history in the Mahabharata; heroic worldview in the Mahabharata; early philosophy in the Mahabharata (esp. Samkya-Yoga); comparative epic studies; prehistoric cultural links between India and Eurasian steppe; Indian influence on and contacts with Eurasian steppe in antiquity; history of Oriental studies in Russia. Participant in the project of the complete translation of the Mahabharata into Russian (at present only books XII and XIII remain untranslated).

Teaching Interests Activities: Senior research fellow, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences. Senior research fellow, Laboratory of Comparative Poetics, Institute for Philological Research, St.Petersburg State University. Lecturer at Oriental and Philosophical faculties, St.Petersburg State University.

Publications * The Mahabharata's Typological Definition Reconsidered // Indo-Iranian Journal, vol. 38, 3, July 1995, p. 249-255; Kalavada (the doctrine of Cyclical Time) in the Mahabharata and the concept of Heroic Didactics // M.Brockington and P.Schreiner (eds.). Composing a Tradition: Concepts, Techniques and Relationships. Proceedings of the First Dubrovnik International Conference on the Sanskrit Epics and Puranas. August 1997. Zagreb, 1999, pp. 17-33; Indo-Iranian Vayu and Gogolean Viy: An Old Hypothesis Revisited // Vidyarnavavandanam. Essays in Honour of Asko Parpola. Ed. by K.Karttunen and P.Koskikallio. Helsinki, 2001, pp.483-496. Indian practice of pilgrimage and the growth of the Mahabharata in the light of new epigraphical sources // M.Brockington (ed.). Stages and Transitions: Temporal and Historical Frameworks in Epic and Puranic Literature. Proceedings of the Second Dubrovnik International Conference on the Sanskrit Epics and Puranas. Zagreb, 2002; The Mahabharata's Similes and Their Significance for Comparative Epic Studies // Rocznik Orientalistyczny. T. LIV, Z. 1 (2001), Warszawa, 2002, pp. 13-31; The Gita versus the Anugita: Were ever Samkhya and Yoga really "One"? // Epics, Khilas and Puranas: Continuities and Ruptures. Ed. by P. Koskikallio. Zagreb: Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2005. Pp. 223-254.

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