Vsevolod Evgenyevich Bagno

(Born in 1951, in Engels, Saratov region).

Bagno V. has been working at the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinskij Dom) of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1978, since 2007 till 2017 - Director of the Institute, now - Head of the Department of Interrelations of Russian and Foreign Literature.

Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor at the Faculty of Philology of St. Petersburg State University.

Vsevolod E. Bagno graduated from the Spanish department of the Faculty of Philology of Leningrad State University in 1974. In the same year, he entered the graduate school of IRL, where he studied under the guidance of academician M. P.Alekseev. In 1977 he defended his PhD thesis «Emilia Pardo Basan and Russian Literature in Spain». Since 1981 he has been a junior researcher at the Department of Interrelations of Russian and Foreign Literatures, since 1986 he has been a researcher. In 1994, he defended his doctoral thesis «The Russian and world fate of the myth of Don Quixote», in the same year he was appointed head of the Department of interrelations of Russian and Foreign literature.

Research interests

International relations of Russian literature, history and theory of literary translation, imagology.

Scientific and public activity

In 2007-2017, Director of the IRL RAS.

Editor-in-Chief of the Russian Literature Journal of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Complete Works of F. M. Dostoevsky (2nd edition, revised and expanded).

Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Complete Works and Letters of A. A. Blok.

Deputy Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Literary Monuments series of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Member of the Editorial Board of the Complete Works of A. S. Pushkin.

Member of the Dissertation Council of the IRL (Pushkin House) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Member of the Dissertation Council of the Faculty of Philology of St. Petersburg State University.

Member of the Academic Council of the Faculty of Philology of St. Petersburg State University.

Member of the Presidium of the Russian Language Council under the President of the Russian Federation.

Member of the Presidium of the Society of Russian Literature.

Member of the Organizing Committee for the Support of Literature, Book Publishing and Reading in the Russian Federation.

Member of the Council for Speech Culture under the Governor of St. Petersburg.

Member of the Board of the D. S. Likhachev Foundation.

Member of the Supervisory Board of the Institute of Translation.

Co-chairman of the Commission «Russia, Spain, Latin America: Cultural Relations» of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Member of the Editorial Board of the journal «Izvestia RAS. A series of literature and language».

Officer of the Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (Spain).

President of the St. Petersburg Public Organization «Cervantes Foundation».

Member of the Writers' Union of St. Petersburg.

Member of the Supervisory Board of the RSUH Humanitarian Readings.

Member of the Public Council of the Big Book Award.

Member of the Board of Trustees of the Mikhail Shemyakin Artist Foundation.

Member of the Board of the Dostoevsky Foundation.

Member of the Public Council of the Zvezda magazine.

Member of the Efim Grigorievich Etkind Award Committee.

Chairman of the jury of the international competition of young talents «Prometheus Star».

Foreign member of the Board of the Association of Russian Literary Critics of China.

Vsevolod E. Bagno is the author of more than 400 works published in fourteen countries in the field of patterns of intercultural relations, the study of Russian literature in the context of the world, the image of Russia, the history and theory of literary translation, including monographs:

Emilia Pardo Basan and Russian literature in Spain. L.: Nauka, 1982.

The Roads of Don Quixote. Moscow: Kniga, 1988.

El Quijote vivido por los rusos. Madrid: CSIC, 1995.

Russian routes in Spain. Paris, 2004 (Bibliograf series; issue 17).

Russian poetry of the Silver Age and the Romanesque World. St. Petersburg: Hyperion, 2005.

Russia and Spain: a common border. Moscow: Nauka Publ., 2006. (in Spanish: Rusia y Espana: la frontera comun. Granada: EUG, 2016).

Don Quixote in Russia and Russian Quixotism. St. Petersburg: Nauka Publ., 2009.

Myth - image - motif: Russian literature in the context of the world. St. Petersburg: Publishing House of the Pushkin House; Vita Nova, 2014.

«A special gift»: artistic translation in the history of Russian culture. Moscow: New Literary Review, 2016.

Spaniards of Three Worlds. Moscow: Institute of Translation: Rudomino Book Center, 2020.

Vsevolod E. Bagno translates poetry, prose and drama from Spanish, Catalan, French and English. In the 1990s and early 2000s, he prepared several Collections of works by H. Cortazar, H. L. Borges and G. Garcia Marquez in Russian translations for St. Petersburg publishers.

The author of eight collections of miniature texts: paradoxes, puns, aphorisms «Pod absurdinku» (2001-2015).