Vladimir Toporov

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Vladimir Nikolaevich Toporov

Profile

Gender: Male
Born: 1928-07-05 （Moscow）
Died: 2005-12-05 （Moscow） age 77
Nationality: Russian
Languages: Russian
Residence History: Moscow

Career

Occupations: philologist, Balticist
Active Years: 1950-2005
Affiliations: Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School, Russian Academy of Sciences
Memberships: Russian Academy of Sciences

Awards

Year	Award	Work	Category	Organization	Result
1990	USSR State Prize	—	—	—	declined
1998	Solzhenitsyn Prize	—	—	—	winner
2004	Andrei Bely Prize	—	—	—	winner

USSR State Prize

1990

Result: declined

Solzhenitsyn Prize

1998

Result: winner

Andrei Bely Prize

2004

Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Solzhenitsyn Prize 1 appearances

Edition 1 (1998) Winner

Works

Major Works

Akhmatova and Dante

1972 Philology

Towards the Reconstruction of the Indo-European Rite

1982 Linguistics

Aeneas: a Man of Destiny

1993 Mythology

Myth. Rite. Symbol. Image

1995 Semiotics

Holiness and Saints in the Russian Spiritual Culture

1998 Cultural Studies

Petersburg Text of Russian Literature

2003 Literary Studies

Translations by Author

Dhammapada (Russian translation)

Translations of Works

Prussian language dictionary (supervised)

Style & Themes

Literary Style: Semiotic approach
Recurring Motifs: MythRiteSymbol

Legacy

Prominent Russian philologist associated with the Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School, authored over 1500 works, contributed to Baltic and Indo-European studies.

Trivia

Wife was Tatyana Elizarenkova.
Declined the USSR State Prize in protest against Soviet repression in Lithuania.