Aleksey Lyvovich Beglov

PhD in History (Institute of Russian History Russian Academy of Science, 2004) Dissertation: “The Church underground in the USSR in 1920–1940s in the context of the State and Church Relations”

Senior researcher, scientific Secretary of the Centre for the Study of History of Religion and Church

Born in Moscow on the 17th April 1974

1997 graduated from the Philological Faculty, Moscow State Lomonosov University (Department of the Russian Literature History)

Since 2004 member of the Institute of the World History Russian Academy of Science

Member of the Editorial Board of the academic peer-reviewed quarterly journal devoted to the multidisciplinary study of religion State, Religion and Church in Russia and Worldwide / Gosudarstvo, religiia, tserkov' v Rossii i za rubezhom (http://www.religion.ranepa.ru/)

Member of the scientific editorial Board of the Project, devoted to the publication of documents of the Holy Council of the Orthodox Russian Church of 1917–1918s (http://sobor1917.ru/)

The winner of the Award of the Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna Macarius (Bulgakov) in the nomination “The History of the Orthodox Church” (2009) for the book “V poiskakh ‘bezgreshnykh katakomb’. Tserkovnoe podpol’e v SSSR” / “In search of ‘ideal church catacombs’. Church underground in the USSR” (Moscow, 2008)

Research interests:

the History of Russia (USSR) in XX century,

the Church-state relations in Russia,

he History of Russian Orthodox Church in XIX–XX centuries,

the History of Russian ascetic tradition of the XIX–XX centuries,

the social dimension of religiosity and its deformation under the influence of public policy.