Davydov, Zakhar Davidovich

Zakhar Davydov was born on May 30, 1945 in Kiev. In 1969, Zakhar Davidovich graduated from the Kiev Civil Engineering Institute , worked in his specialty, while simultaneously studying the life and work of Maximilian Voloshin (since 1977). In the USSR, he participated in the preparation and publication of several books of the creative heritage of M. A. Voloshin.

In 1991 - repatriated to Israel . Upon arrival in Israel, he was invited to doctoral studies at the Department of Slavic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Thesis: “Biography of M. A. Voloshin. The early period of life and work ”( 1995 ). Member of the Union of Israeli Writers ( 1994 ). He worked at the Department of Slavic Studies at the University of Lyon-3 (1997). Since 1999 he has been teaching at Upper Canada College and at the Department of Slavic Studies at the University of Toronto . Courses: CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN LITERATURE, LITERARY SCANDALS IN 20TH CENTURY RUSSIA, STUDIES IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE AND CRITICISM IN THE 18TH CENTURY, etc. Editor-in-chief of the Slavic scientific journal Toronto Slavic Quarterly, Toronto Slavic Annual and 2002 book series Library Slavic. )

The collection of Z. D. Davydov “Everything about Voloshin”, including autographs, watercolors, lifetime editions of the poet and artist, was exhibited at the Museum of Kiev, the Kiev Literary Museum, the libraries of Lyon and Toronto ^[1] .

The main works are devoted to Russian literature of the late IX beginning of the XX century, the life and work of Maximilian Voloshin.

Books

• All dates of being / Maximilian Voloshin. Moscow: Vagrius, Sovm. V. Kupchenko, 2004, 352 p. The circulation is 5,000.
• “And my voice is alarm”: about the book of M. A. Voloshin. “The Deaf-mute Demons” / co. S.M. Schwarzband (Studi slavi / Dipartimento di linguistica, Universita degli studi di Pisa; no. 7). Pisa: ECIG, 1997.136 s. The circulation is not indicated. ^[2]
• Crimea Maximilian Voloshin. Kiev: "Mystetsvo," V. Kupchenko, 1994.366 s. The circulation is not indicated.
• Selected: poems, memoirs, correspondence / Maximilian Voloshin. Minsk: mastast literature, V. Kupchenko 1993.478 s. The circulation is 90,000.
• Autobiographical prose. Diaries / Maximilian Voloshin. Moscow: Book, Sovm. V. Kupchenko 1991.413 s. The circulation is 30,000.
• Poems, articles, memoirs of contemporaries / Maximilian Voloshin. Moscow: Publishing House Pravda, sovm. V. Kupchenko 1991. 478 items. Circulation 100 000. ^[3]
• Koktebel shores / Maximilian Voloshin. Simferopol, 1990, 248 p. The circulation is 65,000.
• Memories of Maximilian Voloshin. Moscow: Sov. writer V. Kupchenko 1990.717 p. The circulation is 50,000. ^{[4] [5]}
• A traveler through the universes / Maximilian Voloshin. Moscow: “Owls. Russia, ” V.Kupchenko 1990.380 s. 2 editions. The total circulation is 200,000.
• The focus of all paths / Maximilian Voloshin. Moscow, Moscow Worker, Sovm. V. Kupchenko. 1989, 605 p. The circulation is 100,000.

Publications

Published since 1984 (the first article is the Literary Review magazine, No. 3 of 1984). Numerous publications in Russian, European, North American scientific and literary journals. Among them:

• Gogol in Canada (Translations, academic studies, theater) - TSQ-30, Fall 2009
• A Lucky Man - Russian Life, May / June 2007, pp. 28–37 ^[6]
• Maximilian Voloshin - new reading - Modernites Russes 7, Center d'Etudes Slaves Andre Lirondelle, University Jean-Moulin, Lion, 2007, pp. 353–359
• Messianic ideas in the poetry of Maximilian Voloshin - Jews and Slavs, vol. 14, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2005, pp. 248–254
• MAVoloshin's “The Destiny of Lev Tolstoy” - Tolstoy Studies Journal, vol. XII, 2000, pp 71–78
• Trois letters de Biarritz - Slavica occitania, Toulouse, 7, 1998, pp. 115–127
• Maximilin Voloshin: “The Feat of Judah in His Shame and Scolding” - Pages 2, Jerusalem Institute Van Lear, Jerusalem, 1993, p. 106-111

Editing

• Jews and Slavs. Vol. 5 - Jerusalem, Co-editors W. Moskowich, S. Schvartsband, L. Finberg, 1996.
• Since 2002, the founder and editor-in-chief of the scientific Slavic journal Toronto Slavic Quarterly and the book series Toronto Slavic Library. As of July 1, 2015, 52 issues of the journal ^[7] , three yearbooks and seven books were published, among them:
• Samuel Schwarzband “Pushkin: The Truth of Fiction” - Toronto: University of Toronto (Toronto Slavic Library. Volume 4), 2012, 288 pp.
• Arkady Steinberg. The second road. Poems. Poems. Graphics. - Russian Impulse, Moscow, - The University of Toronto (Toronto Slavic Library. Volume 3), 2007.
• R. D. Timenchik . Anna Akhmatova in the 1960s - M .: Aquarius Publishers; Toronto: University of Toronto (Toronto Slavic Library. Volume 2), 2005, 784 c.
• Le Studio Franco-Russe by prof. Leonid Livak - Toronto: University of Toronto (Toronto Slavic Library. Volume 1), 2005, 784 c.
• Vadim Perelmuter. Pushkin echo. Notes. Notes. Essays Past - Toronto Slavic Library. "Pilot project". Moscow - Toronto. 2003, 512 p.

• Davydov, Zakhar Davidovich on the site " A new map of Russian literature "
• May 30, 1945 in Kiev was born Zakhar Davydovich Davydov - philologist, editor. Doctor of Philosophy, Professor (1999)
• ROME MAXIMILIANA VOLOSHINA
• Zahar Davydov Visiting Professor, Russian Literature Editor, Toronto Slavic Quarterly
• Zakhar Davydov. I studied with him ...
• “Koktebel. The House of the Poet. ”Guests: Professor Zakhar Davydov and artist Natya Arendt. Interview on the BBC.