Faculty teaching in Russian & East European Studies

Professor Robin Milner-Gulland

Robin Milner-Gulland is Research Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Sussex, where he has taught in the School of European Studies since the 1960's.

Professor Milner-Gulland trained as an interpreter in the army, after which he studied Modern Languages as scholar and senior scholar at New College Oxford, under Professors J. Fennell and Dimitri Obolensky. He also spent a postgraduate year on an exchange studentship at Moscow University researching Russian and Balkan 14th-15th century culture under Professor N. Gudziy.

Professor Milner-Gulland has worked in several fields, in particular;

• Modern Russian Literature, primarily N.Zabolotsky and other writers associated with the OBERIU group, whose work he introduced to the West; also V. Khlebnikov.
• Russian and Byzantine Art History, particularly the age of Andrei Rublyov, and (among moderns) P.Filonov and V.Tatlin
• English early Romanesque art
• Russian cultural history

He has lectured and broadcast widely, including in Russia, and is an elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.

Among his publications are:

• Soviet Russian Verse: an Anthology (Pergamon 1966)
• Russian Writing Today (with M. Dewhirst, Penguin 1977)
• An Introduction to Russian Art and Architecture (with J.E.Bowlt, C.U.P. 1980)
• Cultural Atlas of Russia (Facts on File/Phaidon 1989)
• The Russians (Blackwell 1997, second revised edition 1999)
• Nicholas Zabolotsky: Selected Poems edited by D. Weissborf (1999) - Introduction, many of the translations
• "Russian Whispers" (Conversatiosn with Joseph Brodsky) TLS February 1999 (Review Article)

and many translations (e.g. of Yevtushenko, Zabolotsky, Kharms). He is currently working on a comprehensive History of Russian Art and Architecture for Yale University Press.