Elena Marasinova (Institute of Russian history, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow)

Doctor of historical sciences, senior researcher at the Institute of Russian History. Research interests: Russian history and literature of 18–19th centuries (in particular: public consciousness, everyday life, social history of the Russian nobility, Begriffsgeschichte, mechanisms of social control, education, history of social thought in literature, etc.). Author of many scientific works, including monographs “Psychology of the elite of the Russian nobility, the last third of the XVIII century (correspondence)" (1999) and “Power and personality: Essays on Russian history of the XVIII century" (2008).