Aleksandr V. Pigin

Aleksandr V. Pigin, Doctor of Philological sciences, Full professor, a leading specialist in  learning manuscripts of the Russian North, manuscript textology, the Old Believers' culture, Old Russian and Folklore traditions in the works of Russian writers of the Modern Age (Dostoevsky, Leskov, Remizov and others), the author of more than 150 articles  and research monographs.


Selected publications

  1. Pigin A. V. Svyatoy prepodobnyy Diodor Yur’egorskiy i sozdannyy im monastyr’ [The Saint Reverend Diodorus Yuryegorsky and the Monastery Created by Him]. St. Petersburg, Dmitriy Bulanin Publ., 2017. 528 p.
  2. Pigin A. V. An Unknown Autograph of the Vygovsky Old Believer Scribe of the 18th Century Daniil Matveyev, the Native of Kargopol. In: Uchenye zapiski Petrozavodskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta [Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University], 2017, no. 1 (162). February, pp. 74—79.
  3. Pigin A. V. The “Folk Tale About the Tubozersky Collective Farm” by the Pudozh Narrator N. V. Kigachev. In: Zhivaya starina, 2017, no. 1, pp. 57—58.
  4. Pigin A. V. Old Believers: Three Centuries of Experience. In: Drevnyaya Rus’: voprosy medievistiki [Old Russia. The Questions of Mediaevalism], 2017, no. 1 (67), pp. 138—142.
  5. Pigin A. V. “A Fair Criticism of Tobacco” (the 19th Century): Issues of Genesis, Poetics and the History of the Text. In: Tekst i traditsiya: al’manakh [Text and Tradition: Almanac]. St. Petersburg, 2017, vol. 5, pp. 7—19.
  6. Pigin A. V. Dokuchaev-Baskov (A Real Surname is Dokuchaev) Karp Andreevich. In: Russkie fol’kloristy. Biobibliograficheskiy slovar’. XVIII—XIX vv.: v 5 tomakh [Russian Folklorists. Bibliographic Dictionary. The 18th—19th Centuries: in 5 Vols]. St. Petersburg, Dmitriy Bulanin Publ., 2017, vol. 2, pp. 132—134.
  7. Pigin A. V. Rural Diaries of the 19th—20th Centuries as Sources for the Folk Culture Studies (G. Ya. Sitnikov’s Diary). In: Kizhskiy vestnik [Kizhi Gazette]. Petrozavodsk, 2017, issue 17, pp. 278—285.
  8. Pigin A. V. Michael, the Blessed Solvychegodsky, For the Glory of Christ the Holy Fool. In: Pravoslavnaya entsiklopediya [Orthodox Encyclopedia]. Moscow, 2017, vol. 45, pp. 608—609.
  9. Pigin A. V. The Study of the Monuments of Handwritten Bookishness in the Arkhangelsk North in the Vodlozersky National Park. In: Vklad osobo okhranyaemykh prirodnykh territoriy Arkhangel’skoy oblasti v sokhranenie prirodnogo i kul’turnogo naslediya. Materialy dokladov mezhregional’noy nauchnoy konferentsii (21—23 noyabrya 2017 g.) [A Contribution of the Specially Protected Natural Areas of the Arkhangelsk Region to the Preservation of the Natural and Cultural Heritage. Materials of the Reports of the Interregional Scientific Conference (November 21—23, 2017)]. Arkhangelsk, 2017, pp. 227—232.
  10. Pigin A. V. Saints and Sacred Objects of the Kenozersky National Park: Based on Written Heritage. In: Mezhdunarodnaya i mezhregional’naya sopryazhennost’ okhranyaemykh prirodnykh territoriy Evropeyskogo Severa. Materialy mezhdunarodnoy nauchno-prakticheskoy konferentsii, provodivsheysya 13—17 noyabrya 2017 g. [International and Interregional Connectivity of Protected Areas in the European North. Proceedings of the International Conference Petrozavodsk, November 13—17, 2017]. Petrozavodsk, 2017, pp. 104—107. Available at: http://resources.krc.karelia.ru/math/doc/conf/tezisy_konferencii_oopt_2017.pdf
  11. Pigin A. V. “Verse of Cornelius the Paleostrovsky Miracle-Worker”. In: Fedosovskie chteniya: materialy nauchno-prakticheskoy kraevedcheskoy konferentsii, posvyashchennoy 190-letiyu so dnya rozhdeniya I. A. Fedosovoy. Petrozavodsk, 27—28 aprelya 2017 g. [Fedosov Readings: Materials of the Scientific and Practical Regional Conference Dedicated to the 190th Anniversary of the Birth of I. A. Fedosova. Petrozavodsk, April 27—28, 2017]. Petrozavodsk, 2017, pp. 66—72.
  12. Pigin A. V. An Extensive Edition of the Life of Alexander Oshevensky. In: Russkaya agiografiya: Issledovaniya. Materialy. Publikatsii [Russian Hagiography: Studies. Materials. Publications]. St. Petersburg, 2017, vol. 3, pp. 206—309.
  13. Pigin A. V. The Torment of St. Isidore Yuryevsky as Comprehended by the Russian Old Believers. In: Trudy Otdela drevnerusskoy literatury [Works of the Old Russian Literature Department]. St. Petersburg, 2017, vol. 65, pp. 543—549.
  14. Pigin A. V. A Story About a “Revived Woman” as Comprehended by the Tula Old Believer D. V. Batov. In: Studia litterarum, 2017, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 326—335.
  15. Pigin A. V. Tikhon Vasil’evich Balandin. «Petrozavodskie severnye vechernie besedy» i drugie sochineniya i pis’ma [Tikhon Vasilyevich Balandin. “Petrozavodsk Northern Evening Talks” and Other Writings and Letters]. St. Petersburg, Dmitriy Bulanin Publ., 2016. 384 p.
  16. Pigin A. V. Peter the Great and Thaddeus Blessed: The History of the First Years of Petrozavodsk. In: Uchenye zapiski Petrozavodskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Seriya «Obshchestvennye i gumanitarnye nauki» [“Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University”. Series “Social Sciences & Humanities”]. February, 2016, no. 1 (154), pp. 7—12.
  17. Pigin A. V. More on the Study of Handwritten Books in Karelia: Archaeographical Findings of Recent Years. In: Rol’ nauki v reshenii problem regiona i strany: fundamental’nye i prikladnye issledovaniya. Materialy Vserossiyskoy nauchnoy konferentsii s mezhdunarodnym uchastiem, posvyashchennoy 70-letiyu Karel’skogo nauchnogo tsentra Rossiyskoy Akademii Nauk (24—27 maya 2016 goda) [The Role of Science in Solving the Problems of the Region and the Country: Fundamental and Applied Researches. Materials of the All-Russian Scientific Conference with International Participation, Dedicated to the 70th Anniversary of the Karelian Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (May 24—27, 2016)]. Petrozavodsk, Karelian Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences Publ., 2016, pp. 239—240.
  18. Pigin A. V. Saints and Monasteries of the Russian North in the Literary and Epistolary Legacy of T. V. Balandin (the End of the 18th and Early 19th Century). In: Istoriya prosveshcheniya Evropeyskogo Severa: Materialy mezhdunarodnoy istoriko-kraevedcheskoy konferentsii «Vos’mye Feodoritovskie chteniya». Poselok Umba — selo Varzuga Terskogo rayona Murmanskoy oblasti. 28—30 avgusta 2015 goda [History of Enlightenment of the European North: Materials of the International Historical and Regional Studies Conference “The Eighth Feodorite Readings”. The Village of Umba is the Village of Varzuga of the Tersky District of the Murmansk Region. August 28—30, 2015]. St. Petersburg, 2016, pp. 135—149.
  19. Pigin A. V. The Petition Letters of the Old Believers of the Russian North on Charity. In: Nauchnye issledovaniya v zapovednikakh i natsional’nykh parkakh Rossii: Tezisy Vserossiyskoy nauchno-prakticheskoy konferentsii s mezhdunarodnym uchastiem, posvyashchennoy 25-letnemu yubileyu biosfernogo rezervata YuNESKO «Natsional’nyy park “Vodlozerskiy”». Petrozavodsk, 29 avgusta — 4 sentyabrya 2016 goda [Scientific Researches in Nature Reserves and National Parks of Russia: Abstracts of the All-Russian Scientific and Practical Conference with International Participation Dedicated to the 25th Anniversary of the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve “Vodlozersky National Park”. Petrozavodsk, August 29—September 4, 2016]. Petrozavodsk, 2016, pp. 175—176.
  20. Pigin A. V. A Petition from the Old Believers of the Sheltopogorsk Skete on Charity. In: Finno-ugorskaya mozaika: sbornik statey k yubileyu Irmy Ivanovny Mullonen [AFinno-Ugric Mosaic: Collection of Articles on the Occasion of the Anniversary of Irma Ivanovna Mullonen]. Petrozavodsk, 2016, pp. 308—314.
  21. Pigin A. V. St. Macarius Vysokoezersky. In: Pravoslavnaya entsiklopediya [Orthodox Encyclopedia]. Moscow, 2016, vol. 42, p. 466.
  22. Pigin A. V. Miracles of Job Ushchelsky (from the Diary of a Mezen Peasant at the Turn of the 19th—20th Centuries). In: Zhivaya starina, 2016, no. 4, pp. 2—6.
  23. Pigin A. V. More on the Study of Handwritten Bookishness of Karelia: Findings of the Years 2011—2016. In: Vepsy, karely i russkie Karelii i sopredel’nykh oblastey: issledovaniya i materialy k kompleksnomu opisaniyu etnosov [Veps, Karelians and Russians of Karelia and Adjacent Areas: Researches and Materials for a Comprehensive Description of Ethnic Groups]. Petrozavodsk, 2016, pp. 189—197.
  24. Pigin A. V. The Torment of St. Isidore Yuryevsky, Who Suffered “from Godless Germans”, as Conceived by Russian Old Believers. In: Pyatye Likhachevskie chteniya. Russkaya kul’tura: istoriya i ekologiya. Materialy Mezhdunarodnoy nauchnoy konferentsii. (Muzey-usad’ba L. N. Tolstogo «Yasnaya Polyana». 28 sentyabrya — 1 oktyabrya 2016 g.) [TheFifth Likhachev Readings. Russian Culture: History and Ecology. Materials of the International Scientific Conference. (Leo Tolstoy Museum-Estate “Yasnaya Polyana”. September 28 — October 1, 2016)]. Museum-Estate of Leo Tolstoy “Yasnaya Polyana”, 2016, pp. 205—212.
  25. Pigin A. V. Hagiographic Writings in the Old Believer Polemic of the Late 17th—18th Centuries About “Suicidal Death” (the Epistle of Peter Prokopiev to Daniil Vikulin). In: Trudy Otdela drevnerusskoy literatury [Works of the Old Russian Literature Department]. St. Petersburg, 2016, vol. 64, pp. 435—447.
  26. Pigin А. V. An Old Russian story about a boozer as told by Old Believer polemists // Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia litteraria Rossica. Zeszyt specjalny: Tradycja i inwencja w literaturach słowiaǹskich. Łodź, 2015. Pp. 261—269.
  27.  Pigin A. V. On Some Sources of the Life of Alexander Oshevensky (The Theme of the Family in the Hagiography) // Scrinium: Journal of Patrology and Critical Hagiography. 2015. Vol. 11. P. 281—294.
  28. Pigin А. V., Panchenko F. V., Babalyk М. G., Kuznetsova V. P. The Karelian Collection of Manuscripts of V.I. Malysheva Repository of Antiquities in Institute of Russian Literature: some study results (2012—2014) // Ryabinin Readings-2015: materials of the 7th Conference of traditional culture of the Russian North. — Petrozavodsk: The Kizhi State Museum of History, Architecture and Ethnography publishing house. Kizhi, 2015. — Pp. 499—503.
  29.  Pigin А.V. Essays on tea and samovar in the Old Believer literature of the 18th-20th centuries// Alive antiquity. — 2014. — № 4 (83). — Pp. 34—37.
  30. Pigin A. V. Hagiographic Writings in the Old Believer Controversies over ‘the Suicidal Death’ at the End of the Seventeenth and the Eighteenth Centuries (Peter Prokop’ev’s Message to Daniil Vikulin) // Scrinium: Journal of Patrology, Critical Hagiography, and Ecclesiastical History. 2014. Vol. 10. P. 230—244.
  31.  Pigin А. V., Spasova М. А. The Old Russian Calendar of the end of the 15th –the beginning of the 16th centuries  from the National Archive of the Republic of// Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. Series: The Humanities and Social Science. — 2014. — № 5. — Pp. 61—72.
  32. Pigin A. V. A New Book on Old Russian Demonology: Dmitry I. Antonov, Mikhail R. Maizuls. Demons and Sinners in the Old Russian iconography: the semiotics of images. Moscow: Indrik publ., 2011, 384 p., with graphics. // Scrinium: Journal of Patrology, Critical Hagiography and Ecclesiastical History. 2014. Vol. 10. P. 462—467.
  33.  Pigin А. V. The Ladder of Divine Ascent by St. John Climacus as a source of the Aleksander Oshevensky’s hagiography// Ancient Russia. The questions of Medieval studies. — 2013. — № 3 (53). — Pp. 106—107.
  34.  Pigin А. V. All-Russian Scientific Conference «The Saints and the Martyrs of Obonezhye» // Bulletin of the Ecclesiastical History. 2013. — № 3—4 (31—32). — Pp. 384—389.
  35.  Pigin А. V. Aleksander Oshevensky’s hagiography edited during the 19th century// The problems of historical poetics. — Petrozavodsk : PetrSU Publ., 2013. — Issue. 11: Gospel text in Russian Literature of the 18th -20st Centuries: Quotation, Reminiscence, Motif, Plot, Genre. — Issue. 8. — Pp. 27—41.
  36.  Pigin А. V. Satire poems of Zaonezhye dated back to the second half of the 18th century // Russian Literature. — 2012. — № 4. — Pp. 112—123.
  37. Pigin А.V. Legends of wonderworking icons of the Olonets region in the 17th -18th centuries // 11—21. yüzyllarda Rus edebiyati: tipoloji, poetika, yorum, çeviri sorunlari. Istanbul: Fatih Üniversitesi, 2011. Pp. 338—346.
  38.  Pigin А. V. An Old Russian and Folklore legend in Arseny Nesmelov’s poem  «Forgiven Devil» // The Proceedings of the Department of Old Russian Literature. — 2010. — Vol. 61. — Pp. 606—618.
  39. Pigin А.V. The short novel about creating a Swan hermitage— a little-known work in the Kargopol booklore tradition of the 18th century// Proceedings of the Department of Old Russian Literature. St.Petersburg, 2007. Vol. 58. Pp. 753—772.
  40. Pigin А. V. Kargopol Literary Antiquities in the archives of Petrozavodsk//Ryabinin Readings-2007: materials of the 5th Conference of traditional culture of the Russian North. — Petrozavodsk, 2007. — Pp. 427—431. [Digital resource]. — URL: http://kizhi.karelia.ru/library/ryabinin-2007/488.html.
  41. Pigin А.V. The Legend the Icon of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker, the Great Martyr Barabara and Saint Parasceve the Friday// Dictionary of bibliophiles and  book learning of Ancient Russia. — St. Petersburg., 2004. — Pp. 603—608.
  42. Pigin А.V. On the sources for hagiography of Alexander Svirsky (Hagiography of Saint Pachomius the Great and the Miracle of the Archangel Michael at Chonae) // Proceedings of the Department of Old Russian Literature. St.Petersburg, 2004. Vol. 55. Pp. 281—288. Co-authored by К.М. Zapolskaya.
  43. Pigin А.V. A new collection of the Department of Old Russian Literature in the Pushkin House // Proceedings of the Department of Old Russian Literature. St.Petersburg, 2003. Vol. 54. Pp. 668—683.
  44. Pigin А.V. Fishing scenes in the Old Russian hagiography// Praca i odpoczynek w literaturach slowianskich / Pod redakcja Elizy Malek. Lodz, 2003. Pp. 41—52.
  45. Pigin А.V. Literary history of the short novel about the vision of Anton Galichanin// Proceedings of the Department of Old Russian Literature. St.Petersburg, 2001. Vol. 52. Pp. 225—292.
  46. Pigin А. V. The Story about Demon Zerefer edited by I.S. Myandin// Russian Literature. — 2001. — Pp. 159—166.
  47. Pigin А.V. A book review: Pamela Davidson, ed. Russian Literature and Its Demons. New-York; Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2000 // Slavic and East European Journal, 47.1 (Spring 2003). Pp. 116—118.
  48. Pigin Aleksandr V. [Book review] Aus der geschichte der russichen damonologie des 17. jahrhunderts, erzahlung der besessenen frau solomoniia. untersuchung und texte // Slavic review. — 1999. — Vol. 58. — № 4. — Pp. 928—930.
  49. Pigin А.V. The vision of afterlife in the handwritten tradition of the 18th—20th centuries // Proceedings of the Department of Old Russian Literature. St.Petersburg, 1997. Vol. 50. Pp. 551—557.
  50. Pigin А.V. Popular mythology in hagiography of the Russian North// Proceedings of the Department of Old Russian Literature. St.Petersburg, 1993. Vol. 48. Pp. 331—334.
  51. Pigin А.V. Handwritten and early printed books of National Library of Karelia // Proceedings of the Department of Old Russian Literature. St.Petersburg, 1993. Vol. 48. Pp. 391—395.
  52. Pigin А.V. Jacob // Proceedings of the Department of Old Russian Literature. Leningrad publ., 1990. Vol. 44. Pp. 106—107.