De Lazari, Andrzej

Andrzej de Lazari was born into a family of emigrants from Russia. His great-great-great-great-grandfather, Dmitrios de Lazari, a native of the Greek island of Zante , entered the service of Catherine II in 1780; as a reward, lands in Karasubazar in Crimea were granted to him; his son, Nikolai Dmitrievich, followed Napoleon with Russian troops to Paris . Andrzej’s great-grandfather, Nikolai Nikolaevich (1834-1901), was a gendarmerie general in the Radom province ; grandfather, Konstantin Nikolaevich , at one time was the head of Lepsinsky county , and then, in Poland, the tsarist official for peasant affairs in the Radom province, where he had a small estate. After the revolution, the family emigrated to Lodz. The brother of his grandfather, Alexander Nikolaevich , one of the first military leaders of the Red Army , was repressed and executed in 1942 (rehabilitated in 1956) ^[1] . Aunt Andrzej, Iya de Lazari-Pavlovskaya , was a well-known Polish philosopher, ethicist.

Married to Elzbiet de Lazari - translator of the work of Peter Singer . Their daughter, Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, Ph.D., ethics teacher at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Lodz ^[2] .

In 1969 he graduated from the University of Warsaw .

In 1981, he received a PhD in Humanities from the Faculty of Philology of the University of Lodz; In 1989, at the Department of Applied Linguistics and East Slavic Philology at the University of Warsaw, he received his doctorate in a specialty in Russian literature.

In 1997 he received the title of professor.

Andrzej de Lazari compiled 5 volumes of the Russian-Polish-English vocabulary "Ideas in Russia" (1999-2003).

In 2001-2004, he led the study on "Mutual Prejudices of Poles and Russians" at the Polish Institute of International Affairs.

He currently leads the Department of Central and Eastern Europe at the Institute for International Studies of the University of Lodz, and also oversees interdisciplinary research in the field of religious studies and Sovietology.

• Ideas in Russia, Idee w Rosji, Ideas in Russia. Leksykon rosyjsko-polsko-angielski, pod. Red A. de Lazari, t. 1-5, Warszawa-Łódź, 1999-2003.
• Lazari Andrzej de. In the circle of Fedor Dostoevsky. Tillage = W kręgu Fiodora Dostojewskiego. Poczwinnictwo / Per. from polish. M.V. Leskinen, N.M. Filatova. Repl. ed. V.A. Khorev. - M .: Nauka, 2004 .-- 207 p. - ISBN 5-02-033377-8 . Archived March 8, 2016 on Wayback Machine

• The Polish and Russian souls (from Adam Mickiewicz and Alexander Pushkin to Cheslav Milos and Alexander Solzhenitsyn) / ed. de Lazari A., Warsaw, 2004. ISBN 83-918046-4-x

• Katalog wzajemnych uprzedzeń Polaków i Rosjan / red. Andrzej de Lazari. Warszawa 2006. ISBN 83-89607-65-4
• de Lazari A., Ryabov O.V. Russians and Poles through the eyes of each other: Satirical graphics
• Andrzej de Lazari. In defense of the Polish ambition.
• Andrzej de Lazari. How to be Russian.
• Andrzej de Lazari. Russian identity and historical narrative.

• Andrzej de Lazari . “Polskie i rosyjskie problemy z rosyjskością”, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2009

• Russian Bear: History, Semiotics, Politics / Ed. A. de Lazari and O.V. Ryabova. - M.: New Literary Review, 2012. - 368 p.: Ill. ISBN 978-5-86793-985-4
• Nicholas de Lazari, Outline on paper , Łódź 2014.

• Personal site
• Andrzej de Lazari in Smolensk: "I defend Russianness after Solzhenitsyn."

• De Lazari, Oia
• De Lazari, Konstantin Nikolaevich