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Sergey Arkadevich Ivanov (b. 1956) is a Professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow. Ivanov graduated from Moscow State University in 1978 as a classicist, he got his PhD in History in 1984 and DrSci in History in 1996.

Ivanov authored monographs “Byzantine Missions” (Moscow, 2003, a Czech translation Byzantské misie aneb je možné udělat z “barbara” křesťana”? 2012, the English translation is forthcoming) and “The cultural History of the Holy Fools” (Moscow, 2005). An English translation of the latter, “Holy Fools in Byzantium and beyond” was published by “Oxford University Press” in 2006.

Ivanov co-authored “Corpus of the Earliest Written Evidence on the Slavs” (two volumes, Moscow, 1991‒1995), a book “The Fates of The Cyrillo-Methodian Tradition After Cyril and Methodius” (Moscow, 2000) and “The Cambridge History of Byzantine Empire” (Cambridge, 2008). The number of Ivanov’s academic publications exceeds 180.