Volkov Sergey Vladimirovich is a versatile and fairly well-known person in scientific circles. However, today with the development of the Internet and with wide access to information, more and more people will learn about it.
Volkov Sergey Vladimirovich, "Live Journal", "VKontakte" and whose personal website are becoming more and more popular, is already interesting to many users.
General information
Russian historian, journalist, editor-in-chief of a literary newspaper (First of September), teacher of the Moscow Education Center No. 57.
He was born in 1955 in a Moscow family, as they said then, of the Soviet intelligentsia. My father was engaged in painting, and his mother worked as an editor of the publication. The love of knowledge in the family was absorbed from childhood.
The historian Volkov Sergey Vladimirovich today specializes in the study of various social strata of the pre-revolutionary Russian Empire and other societies.
He did not come to this topic immediately. After completing his studies at Moscow State University and the Institute of Asia and Africa, Sergey Vladimirovich worked at the Institute of Oriental Studies and held the post of researcher.
Later, he headed the editorial board of the publication "Russian Review". Then he worked at the All-Russian Academy of Painting, Architecture and Knitting. There Sergey Vladimirovich served as vice-rector for academic affairs.
In the late 80s, Volkov already received his doctorate. And in the 1990s, he took over as head of the Center for the Promotion of Traditional Cultural Heritage, and later headed the Literary and Philosophical Society.
Today Volkov Sergey Vladimirovich is best known for his colossal work on compiling directories and databases.
Online
Sergey Vladimirovich maintains his personal website, which is directly related to his interests in the study of the elite layers of society.
It provides comprehensive information about what information is currently available on Russian bureaucracy and officers, presents some of the published articles, a huge collection of photographs.
This is not limited to online activities. He is actively leading his LJ, he has a page on VKontakte, on Facebook. Notes and discussions on various topics are regularly published on all of these resources.
Volkov Sergey Vladimirovich. Teacher
The historian is not limited to research activities. Almost throughout his career, in parallel with his research, Sergey Vladimirovich was also engaged in pedagogical activities.
In addition to teaching students at universities and working in public organizations, Volkov is actively engaged in educational activities on the Internet. An environment that almost everyone has access to today.
Sergei Vladimirovich leads discussions not only in the scientific community. You can ask questions related to the history of the White Movement on specialized Internet resources.
Of course, it is worth considering that the data shared by Sergey Vladimirovich Volkov is very limited. However, according to the results of colossal analytical work, he created two vast databases, which included participants in the White Movement, officers and officials of pre-revolutionary Russia.
Sergey Vladimirovich also actively responds to comments in his LiveJournal, on VKontakte and Facebook pages, not only on the topics of his scientific activity. He actively discusses general topics and expresses his personal view of history and the current state of affairs.
All this makes Sergey Vladimirovich one of the most accessible sources of specialized information.
Most Important Publications
In the late 80s, Volkov Sergey Vladimirovich was able to publish more than 600 of his works on various topics. The first high-volume edition was the book "On the coals of the great fire." It was she who brought him his first fame and attracted the attention of various patriotic associations.
In the 1990s, Sergei Vladimirovich was published mostly abroad. In Russia, Volkov is published most often under other names.
A number of books were published on the topic of the White Movement, among them the resonant “Tragedy of Russian Officers”.
Criticism
Sergei Vladimirovich repeatedly criticized the varying degrees of rigidity towards Soviet culture and the modern Russian government.
In the 2000s, Volkov Sergey Vladimirovich took part in television projects exposing various myths of history. Volkov spoke on the subject of several wars waged by the Russian Empire. The concepts expressed by him sharply differed from the usual views propagated by the Soviet school.
Since the end of 2006 Volkov Sergey Vladimirovich (Vladimir) took part in the organization of the “Return” fund, which actively advocated for the restoration of the historical Russian heritage, values and names that existed in pre-revolutionary Russia.