Editorial board

Elena L. Konyavskaya, Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Grand PhD (Philology), Chief Researcher, the Head of the Department of the Old Russian History of the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the author of many works on history and textual study of the Old Russian literature, source study and annals writing.

Stepan M. Shamin, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the journal, PhD (History), Leading researcher of the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the author of publications on Russian 17th century history and culture.

Konstantin V. Vershinin, Executive Secretary of the journal, PhD (History), Senior Researcher of the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, author of studies on Old Russian and Old Slavic literature, Old Russian law.

Sergey V. Alpatov, Grand PhD (Philology), the Head of the Chair of of the folklore at the Faculty of Philology at the Moscow State University, the author of works on history of folklore.

Iliana Chekova-Dimitrova, PhD (Philology), Assoc. Professor of the Faculty of Slavic Philology, Sofia University "St. Clement Ohridski", lecturer at the Slavic Institute of the University of Cologne in Germany, member of the folklore commission of International Committee of Slavists, the author of studies in the field of medieval Bulgarian, Russian and Serbian literature, cultural and historical contacts between the southern and eastern Slavs of the Middle Ages, Renaissance and the New Age, church painting, East Slavic folklore, etc.

Sergey Z. Chernov, Grand PhD (History), Leading Researcher of the Institute of Archaeology RAS, the author of many works on the archaeology and the history of Old Russia.

Tikhon (Polyansky), Father Superior, PhD (Philosophy), the author of many works on the history of ancient Russian thought.

Boris N. Florya, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the head of the Department of the Middle Ages History of Moscow State University, the author of many books and articles on the Russian and Slavic Middle Ages history.

Maria S. Fomina, PhD (Philology), the author of works on the Old Russian collections, textual criticism and artistic peculiarity of «Zlatostruy» (Toronto).

Petr G. Gaydukov, Grand PhD (History), corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Advisor of Director of the Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the author of a number of works on the archaeology, medieval Russian numismatics and sphragistics, history of science, bibliography.

Marcello Gardzaniti, Grand PhD (Slavic Philology), Professor of the Linguistics Department of the Florence University, the author of many works on Slavonic philology.

Alexey A. Gippius, PhD (Philology), Academician of the Academy of Sciences, Professor, Chief researcher of Laboratory of Semiotic Studies HSE University, specialist in the Old Russian language.

Anton A. Gorsky, Grand PhD (History), Deputy Director, the Head of the Source study Department of the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the author of many works on the Russian Medieval History.

Vasily P. Grebenuk, Grand PhD (Philology), the Head of the Department of humanities of the Russian Center for Scientific Information, the author of many works on the history of the Old Russian literature.

Valery V. Igoshev, Grand PhD (Art History), Leading Researcher of the State Research Institute Р С•f Restoration (Moscow, Russia). E-mail: igoshevvv@rambler.ru

Gleb M. Kazakov, Phd (History), Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Justus-Liebig University of GieГџen (Germany), the main research focus is Early Modern Russian History and the history of Russian-European relations.

Vladimir M. Kirillin, Grand PhD (Philology), Professor and Head of the Chair of Language and Literature Department of Moscow Theological Academy, Professor of the Minsk Theological Academy, Chief Resercher of the Gorky Institute of World Literature, the author of many works on history and textual criticism of the Old Russian literature.

Oleg F. Kudryavtsev, Grand PhD (History), professor of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, the author of many works on the history of the Medieval and Renaissance culture and Russian-European relations in the 15th-16th centuries.

Pavel V. Lukin, Grand PhD (History), Leading Researcher of the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the author of works on the early Russian history and the history of befor Peter Russia.

Kirill A. Maksimovich, Grand PhD (Philology) Dr.phil.habil, Professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University (Frankfurt am Main), the author of many works on the history of Russian, the Russo-Byzantine cultural contacts and the reception of Byzantine Law among the Slavs.

Tatyana V. Rozhdestvenskaia, Doctor of Philology, Professor of the Russian Language Department, Philological Faculty of St. Petersburg State University, specialist in the Р Сњistory of the Russian language and writing, author of works on Old Russian epigraphy and paleography.

Adrian A. Selin, Grand PhD (History), Dean at the Faculty of History (Center for Historical Research) of the Higher School of Economics St.Petersburg Branch.

Aleksey V. Sirenov, Grand PhD (History), Corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Direktor of the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of sciences, Professor St. Petersburg State University, the author of many works on the history of Old Russian culture.

Ludwig Steindorf, Grand PhD (History), Professor of the University of Kiel, the author of many works on the history of the Medieval Russia and Croatia.

Petr S. Stefanovich, Grand PhD (History), Professor of the Faculty of Humanities, National Research University High School of Economic, Leading Resercher of the Russian History Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Anatoly A. Turilov, PhD (History), Leading Researcher of the Institute of Slavic Studies of Academy of Science, The foreign member of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts, the author of many works on the history of culture, the cultural inter- Slavs communications and paleography.

Andrei S. Usachev, Grand PhD (History), professor of the Russian State University for the Humanities, professor of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, the author of works on the Russian History, Book Culture and the Russian Church of the 15th-16th centuries.

Elena M. Yukhimenko, Grand PhD (Philology), Chief Academic Researcher of the State Historical Museum, the author of many works on the history of Old Believers.