Intellectual worlds of Yuri Vasilyevich Shatin (materials for a scientific biography)

The paper focuses on the creative biography of Yuri Vasilyevich Shatin, a distinguished Russian scholar and literary theorist. Emphasis is placed on the important cultural institutions where the formation of his scientific method took place. Particular attention is paid to a number of scholarly problems articulated by Shatin in his doctoral dissertation. He identified a number of parameters of the Pushkin text that would serve as vectors for the development of his own scholarly thought in the works of the following decades. In the 1990s and 2000s, the scientific interests of Yuri Vasilyevich broadened to encompass the rich tapestry of Russian modernism, delving into the poetic works of significant figures such as Marina Tsvetaeva and Joseph Brodsky, among others. His scholarly interests in semiotics, rhetoric, and cultural discourse are comprehensively showcased in his collection, “Russian Literature in the Mirror of Semiotics, compiled from works of various years.” The breadth of authors represented in this collection, ranging from Alexander Pushkin and Karolina Pavlova to Sasha Sokolov and Mikhail Shishkin, highlights the deep scholarship and relentless pursuit of new intellectual horizons. The latest works offer a theoretical model for understanding aesthetic experience of the scholar.

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