Penkovsky, Alexander Borisovich

Born December 19 in Kazan in the family of a leading Soviet worker. He graduated from the Faculty of Russian Language and Literature of the Moscow City Pedagogical Institute. V.P. Potemkin . He taught at various universities in the country: the Sourozh Teachers' Institute (1949–1955), the Tobolsk Pedagogical Institute (1955–1957), the Komsomolsk-on-Amur Pedagogical Institute (1973–1981), and Vladimir University (1959–1975 and since 1981 ).

The last few years of his life he lived and worked in Moscow.

The first wife - Itskova Lyudmila Konstantinovna (1926-1991).

The second wife is Irina Stepanovna Prikhodko (1943–2014), literary critic, Shakespeare, Doctor of Philology, member of the Shakespeare Commission of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The largest specialist in the work of A. Blok in Russia.

From his first wife he has two sons: Penkovsky Alexander Alexandrovich (b. 1945) and Penkovsky Boris Alexandrovich. The eldest son A. A. Penkovsky is married and has three sons: Gennady, Anatoly, Konstantin. They live in the city of Vladimir.

A. B. Penkovsky made a great contribution to the study of dialects of Western Bryansk. His Ph.D. thesis on this topic was defended with a resolution of the board, “Worthy of a doctorate.”

The versatile scientific interests of Alexander Borisovich Penkovsky capture various areas of linguistics and philology. He is the author of works on the Russian language, its history, dialectology, phonetics, morphology, syntax and semantics, the theory of artistic speech, general linguistics, published in domestic and foreign journals and collections. The most important works of A. B. Penkovsky are at the intersection of linguistics and philology. They are dedicated to artistic anthroponymy, the dictionary of Pushkin and the Pushkin era. This topic was formed in the works of A. B. Penkovsky during his years in Vladimir. In 1999, his monograph “Nina. The cultural myth of the golden age of Russian literature in linguistic coverage ”(reprinted in 2003), the idea of ​​which arose from the student’s question about Lermontov’s“ Masquerade ”. In it, with the linguistic instinct and thoroughness inherent in the author, the so-called "The myth of Nina," which was formed in the Russian cultural consciousness. In the work, a whole series of interpretations of the texts of the “Golden Age”, which have become textbook, is destroyed and a “hidden” plot of “ Eugene Onegin ” is revealed. So, the work analyzes in detail the existence of the concepts of “boredom” and “longing” in the Pushkin era. The theoretical basis for the main conclusions of the book is the concept of "anthroponymic space of the literary text as a model of the art world", which Alexander Borisovich developed for many years in his works. A special feature of this study was the reflection in it of the living presence of the author. The book aroused both enthusiastic and critical reviews of literary scholars.

In 2004, “Essays on Russian Semantics” appeared (M.: Languages ​​of Slavic Culture, 2004. - 464 p. “Studia philologica”), in which Alexander Borisovich’s works on Russian semantics were collected. Together, they represent the circle of constant research interests of a famous philologist and culturologist: semantics of dialects and semantics of proper names, general category semantics and semantics of concepts, phonetic semantics and semantics of spelling, living life of the Russian language. In 2005, the last book, "The Mysteries of the Pushkin Text and Dictionary: the Experience of Philological Hermeneutics," was published.

In 2009, in the series “Studia philologica” in honor of the 80th anniversary of Alexander Borisovich, a collection of articles “The Word is pure fun ...” was published. The problems of published articles, structural-thematic division of sections reflected the extraordinary vastness of the scientific interests of A. B. Penkovsky. The collection reflects a variety of author's concepts, which arose in many respects under the influence of Penkovsky's research.

Alexander Borisovich and his wife, I. S. Prikhodko, are buried in the columbarium of the Donskoy Monastery in Moscow.

He was a member of the Russian Language Council under the President of the Russian Federation and the Spelling Commission at the Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences .

• Nina. The cultural myth of the golden age of Russian literature in linguistic coverage. - M .: Indrik, 1999.520 s. ISBN 5-85759-104-X
• Nina. The cultural myth of the golden age of Russian literature in linguistic coverage. Ed. second, rev. and add. - M.: Indrik, 2003.640 s. ISBN 5-85759-206-2
• Essays on Russian semantics, 2004.
• Riddles of the Pushkin text and dictionary. The experience of philological hermeneutics, 2005.

• “The word is pure fun ...”: a collection of articles in honor of Alexander Borisovich Penkovsky / ed. ed. A.M. Moldovan . - M .: Languages ​​of Slavic culture , 2009. - 616 p. (Studia philologica). ISBN 978-5-9551-0346-4
• Alexander Borisovich Penkovsky. Facets of life. From a family album. M., 2012.

• Riddles of the Pushkin text and dictionary: The experience of philological hermeneutics (Abstract, content, reviews)
• Zakharov N.V. Alexander Borisovich Penkovsky // Information humanitarian portal “ Knowledge. Understanding. Skill . " - 2010. - No. 12 - Portraits of scientists and educators, bibliography of their works .
• Obituary
• Alexander Borisovich Penkovsky (1927-2010)
• Levontina I. B. Philology - love of the word