Profesor Andrzej Baranow: głosy i wspomnienia

Abstract

The text is a collection of memories about the prematurely deceased Russian studies specialist and comparative literary theoretician, Professor Andrey Baranov (1959–2024). He was born in Kostroma in central Russia. He received his doctoral and habilitation degrees at the Lomonosov University in Moscow, under the supervision of Prof. Elena Tsybenko. Later, he worked at Russian universities. In the last years, he worked in Vilnius, at the Education Academy that is a branch of the Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas. In 2017, he won the competition for the position of the professor of studies in Eastern-Slavic literature at the University of Białystok, where he was Head of the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies. Professor Baranow was widely known as the organiser of six Polish-Lithuanian scientific conferences in comparative studies in Vilnius. The texts are written by his colleagues from Vilnius, Białystok, and the universities in Katowice and Bielsko-Biała.