"Turilov, Anatoly Arkadyevich"

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Anatoly Arkadyevich Turilov (born May 23, 1951, Yaroslavl, USSR) is a Soviet and Russian Slavic historian, a specialist in the history of Old Russian and Slavic literature, cultural and church history of the Eastern and Southern Slavs, source studies, epigraphy. Candidate of Historical Sciences. Foreign member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, member of the Ambrosiana Academy (Accademia Ambrosiana) in the Slavic class. One of the authors of the Great Russian Encyclopedia and the Orthodox Encyclopedia.

Biography
Born on May 23, 1951 in Yaroslavl.

After graduating from the historical faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1973, he studied at the postgraduate school of the Institute of Slavic Studies, which he graduated in 1976.

In 1977-1979 he worked in the Department of Manuscripts of the Lenin State Library.

Since 1979 he has been working at the Institute of Slavic Studies (until 1989 – in the Archaeographic Commission): junior researcher, then researcher, senior researcher, leading researcher.

In 1980 he defended his thesis at the Institute of Slavic Studies “Bulgarian and Serbian sources on the medieval history of the Balkans in the Russian bookwriting of the late XIV – first quarter of the XVI centuries”.

In 1983, together with a connoisseur of Slavic literature - N. B. Tikhomirov - made a rare trip to Athos for that time.

Member of the International Biblical Commission at the ISS, the Archaeographic Commission of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Scientific and Publishing Council of the Orthodox Encyclopedia, the Patriarchal Hagiographic Council at the Orthodox Encyclopedia, the Expert Council for awarding prizes in memory of Metropolitan Makariy (Bulgakov).

Executive Editor of the “Consolidated Catalogue of Slavic-Russian Manuscript Books of the XIV Century in the Storages of Russia, CIS and Baltic States” (published since 2002).

Participant in the preparation of the commented edition of the “History of the Russian Church” by Metropolitan Makary. He took part in a scientific project of Swedish scientific and archival institutions to describe the documents of the Novgorod House of Order taken to Sweden in 1617.

He is a member of the editorial boards of the dictionaries of the Old Russian language of the XI-XIV and XI-XVII centuries, the magazines “Conversation” (Belgrade), “Ancient Russia. Questions of Medievistics”, “Old Srpski Archive (Belgrade)”, “Staroblgarsk Literature” (Sofia), “Church and Historical Herald”, “Russica Romana” (Rome) and the international Slavistic magazine “Slověne = Slov ne”.

Labor

Preliminary list of Slavic-Russian manuscript books of the XV century, stored in the USSR (for the Consolidated Catalogue of Slavic-Russian manuscript books stored in the USSR). - M., 1986. 374 s.
(in translation)
Fates of the Cyril-Methodian tradition after Cyril and Methodius. 2. — SPb., 2004 (together with B. N. Florey and S. A. Ivanov).
(in translation)
(in translation)
The Dictionary of the Scribes and Books of Ancient Russia: [in 4 pp.] / Russian Academic Sciences, In-t Russian lit. (Pushkin House); Rep. ed. D. S. Likhachev [etc.]. L: Science, 1987-2017.
3: XVII century, part 1 : A-Z / ed. D. M. Bulanin, A. A. Turilov; foreword. D.M. Bulanina. - St. Petersburg. : Dmitry Bulanin, 1993.