Lev Lukhovitskiy
- Associate Professor: Faculty of Humanities / Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies
- Lev Lukhovitskiy has been at HSE University since 2021.
- Language Proficiency
- English
- Greek
- French
- Аncient Greek
- Latin
- German
- Italian
- Contacts
- Phone:
15068 - Address: 21/4 Staraya Basmannaya Ulitsa, Building 1, room 529
- SPIN-RSCI: 6075-9260
- ORCID: 0000-0001-9681-2350
- ResearcherID: G-8321-2015
- Scopus AuthorID: 56780482700
- Google Scholar
- Blogs
- Academia.edu
- Supervisor
- I. Smirnov
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Education and Degrees
Lomonosov Moscow State University
According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, Candidate of Sciences belongs to ISCED level 8 - "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar. Candidate of Sciences allows its holders to reach the level of the Associate Professor.
Awards and Accomplishments
- Best Teacher — 2022–2024
Courses (2025/2026)
- Byzantine Intellectual Culture and Its Reception in Medieval Rus' (Master field of study History; 2 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
- Byzantine Intellectual Culture and Its Reception in Medieval Rus' (Mago-Lego)Rus
Courses (2024/2025)
- History of Byzantium (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology, History; 2 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Old Greek language and Authors (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology; 4 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Old Greek language and Authors (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study History; 4 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar Problem of Byzantium Historiography (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study History; 5 year, 1-3 module)Eng
- Past Courses
Courses (2023/2024)
- Byzantium: Emperors and Saints (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study History; 1 year, 2 module)Rus
- Byzantium: Emperors and Saints (Mago-Lego; 2 module)Rus
- History of Byzantium (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology; 2 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Old Greek language and Authors (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study History; 5 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Old Greek language and Authors (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology; 3 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Photius and Beyond (Minor; Faculty of Humanities; 4 module)Rus
- Photius and Beyond (Optional course (faculty); 4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Problems of Classical and Byzantine Historiography" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study History; 5 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Research Seminar: Scientific Problems of Graeco-Roman and Byzantine History (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study History; 4 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Courses (2022/2023)
- Advanced Seminar "The Image of Byzantium Across Centuries" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology; 1 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
- Byzantium: Emperors and Saints (Mago-Lego; 2 module)Rus
- Byzantium: Emperors and Saints (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study History; 1 year, 2 module)Rus
- Old Greek language and Authors (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology, field of study History; 3 year, 1-4 module)Eng
- Old Greek language and Authors (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study History; 4 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Photius and Beyond (Minor; Faculty of Humanities; 4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "History and Culture of the Byzantine World" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study History; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Research Seminar 'History of Byzantine Literature' (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology, field of study History; 4 year, 1-3 module)Rus
Courses (2021/2022)
- Old Greek language and Authors (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology, field of study History; 2 year, 1-4 module)Eng
Conferences
- 2024
Character Construction in Byzantium (Прага). Presentation: Role-playing the Heretic: Characterization through Speech in Anti-Iconoclastic Hagiography
Character Construction in Byzantium (Прага). Presentation: Role-playing the Heretic: Characterization through Speech in Anti-Iconoclastic Hagiography
- 2022
III Online Workshop on Rewriting in Byzantium (Мадрид). Presentation: Hagiographical rewriting in the Palaeologan period: new metaphrasts and old saints under the shadow of Symeon Metaphrastes
Romanian Society for Byzantine Studies lecture series (Бухарест). Presentation: The forbidden word: historical reflections and unspoken accusations in the icon controversy under Alexios I Komnenos
- 2021
«Византия… и не только»: Чтения, приуроченные к 65-летию д.и.н. проф. С. А. Иванова (Москва). Presentation: «Античное принуждение и византийское очарование»
Классическая филология в контексте мировой культуры 14: Научные чтения, посвященные памяти проф. Д. Е. Афиногенова (28.08.1965–28.08.2021) (Москва). Presentation: Анонимное житие Михаила Синкелла (BHG 1296) как полифонический эксперимент
- 2016
23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies (Белград). Presentation: Dissecting the miraculous: Nicephorus Gregoras’ ‘speeding up’ and ‘freezing up’ psychologizing techniques in the Lives of Theophano and Anthony Kauleas
ХХI-я Всероссийская научная сессия византинистов РФ «Империя ромеев во времени и пространстве: центр и периферия» (Белгород). Presentation: Благочестивое приношение или литературное состязание? Самосознание Палеологовского агиографа в письмах Константина Акрополита
- 2011
22nd International Congress of Byzantine Studies (София). Presentation: Historical Memory of Byzantine Iconoclasm during the Hesychast Controversy: The Case of Nicephorus Gregoras and Philotheos Kokkinos
Employment history
- May 2014 – September 2021: Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Medieval Studies Dpt., research fellow
- March 2010 – April 2014: Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Medieval Studies Dpt., junior research fellow
- June 2010 – present: Ecclesiastical research center “Orthodox encyclopedia”, History of the Eastern Churches Dpt., senior scholarly editor
- April 2008 – June 2010: academic publishing house “Great Russian Encyclopedia”, Literary Studies Dpt., senior scholarly editor
Teaching
- Faculty of Philology, Lomonosov Moscow State University: Modern Greek (2008–2009), Ancient Greek (2008–2014), History of Byzantine literature (2011–2014), Byzantine instrumenta studiorum (2015–2016)
- St Tikhon’s Orthodox University, Theological Faculty: History of Byzantine literature (2012–2013, 2017–2021)
- Sretensky Theological Seminary: Cult of saints in Byzantium (2016–2017), Byzantine history (2020–2021)