Nikolai Petrov, A.

Peter A. was born on October 24, 1924 in the village Ogarevo Saransk district, Penza province (later Mordovskaya ASSR) in a peasant family shepherd.

In 1949 he graduated from the Philological Faculty of Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, in 1952, post graduate courses in the department of History of Russian Literature. Since 1952 works at MSU. Since 1969, Professor, from 1977 to 1996. Head of the Department of Theory of Literature Faculty of Philology. From 1969 to 1980 worked as a senior fellow at the Institute of World Literature. п?.п?. Gorky USSR (concurrently).

In 1986-1988 served as the academician-secretary of the Department of Language and Literature and a member of the Presidium of the USSR. Since 1984 Corresponding Member of USSR Academy of Sciences (since 1992. Russia Academy of Sciences).

In MSU read lectures on general subjects: the history of Russian literature, the history of Russian literary criticism, the basis of aesthetics, an introduction to literary studies, conducted special seminars, supervised the preparation of graduate and postgraduate work. Among students 24 candidates and five doctors.

Over the past twenty years, served (in different years) scientific, literary and organizational social responsibility:

Chief Editor of "Philology" (1972).
President of the International Association of Teachers of Russian Language and Literature MAPRYAL (1986-1991).

Member of the Presidium of the Scientific and Technical Council of the USSR Ministry of Higher Education.
Member of the expert committee of the USSR Ministry of Higher Education.
Member of the Scientific Council of the Bureau of the Council of Ministers on Social Development.
Member of the Soviet Committee for Slavic.
Chairman of the Scientific Council of "The theory and methodology of literature and art history, USSR.

Chairman of the Commission on the history of philology USSR.
Chairman of the Committee on Relations with the USSR Academy of Sciences Graduate School of Philology at the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
Chairman of the Council on the coordination of research activities of the Office of Literature and Language Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

Member of the Commission on Prize. A.S. Pushkin Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
Chairman of the Commission on the Prize. VG. Belinsky USSR.

Deputy Chairman of the Scientific Council of the USSR on the problems of Russian culture.
Member of the Bureau of the Scientific Council of the USSR on the Complex Problem "Patterns of world literature in the modern era".

Member of the plenum of the Higher Attestation Commission under the USSR Council of Ministers.

Committee member of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences to develop a program for literature for high school.

Member of the Scientific Council of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the USSR on the problems of continuing education.

Member of the aesthetic education of the youth section of the Public Council of the Komsomol Central Committee and the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the USSR.

Board member of the All-Union Society "Knowledge".
Member of the Scientific Council of the State Literary Museum.
Member of the Council of Moscow State University on a group of humanities departments.
Chairman of the specialized councils for defense of doctoral and master's theses in literary studies at Moscow State University.

Member of editorial boards and boards of the journals "Izvestiya USSR. Literature and Language Series "," Social Sciences "," Modern High School "," Russian Abroad "," New World "," World and I "(USA).
Secretary of the Union of Soviet Writers (1986 1992).

Member of the Committee on Lenin and USSR State Prize in literature, art and architecture at the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1985 1991).
Member of the Central Board of the Company "USSR-Finland".

Chairman of Public Council Goskomisdat USSR in literary criticism and aesthetics.
Chairman of the section and literary critics of the Moscow writers' organization.
Member of the boards of literary criticism and the Writers 'Union and Writers' Union of the RSFSR.
Chairman of the Commission on the literary heritage of a number of scholars and writers.

Board member and publisher of editorial boards of "Fiction", "Soviet writer", "Rainbow", "Moscow Worker", "Friendship of peoples", "Soviet Russia"
. Member of the editorial boards of collected works of Pushkin, . Dostoevsky, . Bulgakov, . "Libraries teacher", . "Libraries of the Soviet novel", . Library Native cornfields ", . "Library of Russian art of journalism", . "University Library", . series "Philology Heritage, . "History of World Literature", . editor in chief of Encyclopaedia "Russian writers,
. 1800-1917 "in six volumes

. He has lectured and presented reports in the following cities: Almaty, Ashgabat, Baku, Vilnius, Volgograd, Vologda, Donetsk, Erevan, Kazan, Kiev, Kishinev, Lipetsk, Nikolaev, Penza, Riga, Samara, Samarkand, St. Petersburg, Tallinn , Tashkent, Tbilisi, Tver, Kharkiv
.

He played an official reviewer of candidates (38) and doctoral (20) Thesis
. Presented papers at international congresses and seminars and has lectured at universities and institutions in Belgium, . Bulgaria, . Hungary, . Germany, . Holland, . Greece, . Egypt, . Israel, . India, . China, . Malta, . Mongolia, . Poland, . Slovakia, . United States, . Turkey, . Finland, . Czech, . Sweden, . Yugoslavia, . Korea, . Japan,
. Participated in the organization of Russian scientific and educational centers abroad.

Member of the Honorary Committee of the Mediterranean Center of the Russian language, literature and culture (Italy), an honorary member of the Society Russists France, vice-president of the International Academy of professors (USA), president of the institution of the Upper Volga (Tver).

Lomonosov Moscow State Prize Laureate (1984). Honorary Professor of Moscow State University (1997).
Member of the Great Patriotic War. Awarded the Order of the Patriotic War II degree, Peoples' Friendship, the Order of Honor and medals.

List of publications Peter I is more than 500 publications (full list).

In scientific network published his lecture course "Introduction to the History of Literature"