Igor Yu. Schaub — Doctor of Sciences (History), Professor; Leading Researcher, Department of the History of Classical Culture, Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor, St. Philaret’s Institute.

Born in 1951, he graduated from the Department of the History of Ancient Greece and Rome, Faculty of History, Leningrad State University, in 1974, where he studied under R. V. Kinzhalov and Yu. V. Andreev. He has worked at the Institute for the History of Material Culture since 1974 and taught at St. Tikhon’s Orthodox University for the Humanities (2000–2007) and St. Petersburg State University (since 2006).

PhD (Candidate of Sciences) thesis: “Cults and Religious Beliefs of the Population of the Bosporus in the 6th–4th Centuries BC” (1987). Doctor of Sciences thesis: “Hellenic Traditions and Barbarian Influences in the Religious Life of the Greek Colonies of the Northern Black Sea Region (6th–4th Centuries BC)” (2010; Archaeology).

Research interests: religion and culture of the Greeks and barbarians in the Northern Black Sea region; cultural history of the Ancient World, Western Europe and Russia of the Silver Age; history of religion. He took part in archaeological expeditions at Olbia, Berezan, Nymphaeum, Porthmion and Myrmekion.

He is the author of more than 120 scholarly works, including the monographs “Myth, Cult, Ritual in the Northern Black Sea Region (7th–4th Centuries BC)” (St. Petersburg, 2007), “Italy — Scythia: Cultural and Historical Parallels” (Moscow; St. Petersburg, 2008), “Hellenic Traditions and Barbarian Influences in the Religious Life of the Greek Colonies of the Northern Black Sea Region” (Saarbrücken, 2011), “Dante: Pro et Contra” (with M. S. Samarina, St. Petersburg, 2011), and the textbook “Russian Culture of the Late 19th — Early 20th Century: The Silver Age” (Moscow, 2023).

RSCI profile: https://elibrary.ru/author_profile.asp?id=502250, SPIN code: 6873-9068. E-mail: schaubigor@mail.ru.