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Robert Rainsford "Robin" Milner-Gulland, FBA, FSA, (born Mill Hill, 24 February 1936) is a British scholar of Russian and Byzantine literature, culture, and art. His main areas of expertise are Russian modern & medieval cultural history, modern Russian literature (especially poetry), Russian & Byzantine art history, the Russian language, English romanesque art & architecture and Sussex history. He is currently the Emeritus Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the
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Biography

Having trained as a linguistic interpreter during his
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, Milner-Gulland went on to study Modern Languages at New College, Oxford (specialising in German and Russian) being taught by Professor John Fennell and Sir Dimitri Obolensky. He also took a one-year postgraduate course at
Moscow State University M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...
in 1960–61, researching Russian and Balkan culture in the 14th–15th centuries, where he was taught by Professor Nikolai Gudziy. Milner-Gulland joined the University of Sussex as a lecturer in Russian in 1962, the year after its foundation. He was appointed Reader in 1974, a post he maintained for 19 years before being appointed Professor of Russian and Eastern European studies in 1993, and Research Professor of Russian in 2000. He was elected a 50th Anniversary Fellow by the University of Sussex in 2012, in recognition of his contribution to the university. He taught many students during his time at Sussex, including Labour Party politician
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and historian
Lindsey Hughes Lindsey Hughes (4 May 1949 – 26 April 2007) was a British historian who studied seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Russia, especially the reign of Peter the Great. She wrote biographies of Peter and his predecessor Sophia Alekseyevna, as we ...
. Milner-Gulland was elected a Fellow of the
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in 1998 and a Fellow of the
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in 2002. Milner-Gulland is also an authority on the church architecture, archaeology and natural history of Sussex. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Sussex Historic Churches Trust, and the Council of the Sussex Archaeological Society. He also serves on Washington Parish Council. He served for many years on the Executive of the South Downs Campaign, culminating in the designation of the
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in 2011. He edits (with John Manley) the 'South Downs Series' on the history, nature and culture of the
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, written by specialists for a wide public. Following the death of his colleague and friend, the Russian poet
Yevgeny Yevtushenko Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko ( rus, links=no, 1=Евге́ний Алекса́ндрович Евтуше́нко; 18 July 1933 – 1 April 2017) was a Soviet and Russian poet. He was also a novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, ...
, in April 2017, Milner-Gulland appeared on the
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's
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programme, where he described Yevtushenko as "an absolute natural talent at performance" and shed light on the poet's interactions with
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and Dmitri Shostakovich. Milner-Gulland also wrote an obituary of Yevtushenko in
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, where he stated that "there was a brief stage when the development of Russian literature seemed synonymous with his name".


Publications

Milner-Gulland has published numerous articles and critical essays in journals including
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,
The English Historical Review ''The English Historical Review'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal that was established in 1886 and published by Oxford University Press (formerly Longman). It publishes articles on all aspects of history – British, European, and ...
,
The Russian Review ''The Russian Review'' is an independent peer-reviewed multi-disciplinary academic journal devoted to the history, literature, culture, fine arts, cinema, society, and politics of the Russian Federation, former Soviet Union and former Russian Empir ...
,
The Slavonic and East European Review ''The Slavonic and East European Review'', the journal of the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (University College London), is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering Slavonic and East European Studies. It was estab ...
and
The Times Literary Supplement ''The Times Literary Supplement'' (''TLS'') is a weekly literary review published in London by News UK, a subsidiary of News Corp. History The ''TLS'' first appeared in 1902 as a supplement to ''The Times'' but became a separate publication ...
. Notable books include: *''Soviet Russian Verse, An Anthology'' – 1964 *''Russia's Lost Renaissance'' – 1974, edited by David Daiches and Anthony Thorlby *''Russian and Slavic Literature'' – 1976, co-authored with Charles A. Ward and Richard Freeborn *''Russian Writing Today'' – 1977, co-authored with Martin Dewhirst *''Introduction to Russian Art and Architecture'' – 1980, co-authored with J.E. Bowlt *''Cultural Atlas of Russia and the Soviet Union'' – 1989, co-authored with Nikolai Dejevsky *''The Russians'' – 1997 *''Patterns of Russia: History, Culture, Spaces'' – 2020 His work "The Russians", originally published in 1997 as part of the 'Peoples of Europe' book series, is generally considered to be his most important and influential work. A description on Wheelers.co.nz stated "''The Russians'' provides a wide-ranging and original exploration of the Russian cultural experience". One review published in
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described the book as "marvellous", "masterly" and "thought-provoking", while
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(SEER) stated "I can think of few better books for opening doors into a fascinating but often misunderstood world." As well as being an author, Milner-Gulland has translated the works of numerous Russian authors into English, the most famous being his publication of ''Yevtushenko: Selected Poems'' (originally published in 1962); an anthology of poems by the Russian poet
Yevgeny Yevtushenko Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko ( rus, links=no, 1=Евге́ний Алекса́ндрович Евтуше́нко; 18 July 1933 – 1 April 2017) was a Soviet and Russian poet. He was also a novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, ...
, a collaboration between Milner-Gulland and the poet
Peter Levi Peter Chad Tigar Levi, FSA, FRSL (16 May 1931, in Ruislip – 1 February 2000, in Frampton-on-Severn) was a British poet, archaeologist, Jesuit priest, travel writer, biographer, academic and prolific reviewer and critic. He was Professor of P ...
. Milner-Gulland has also translated poetry by Russian poet Nikolay Zabolotsky, and translated his biography (written by Zabolotsky's son, Nikita) into English. More recently, Milner-Gulland has translated books by Russian art expert Oleg Tarasov into English; ''Icon and Devotion - Sacred Spaces in Imperial Russia'' (2002) and ''Framing Russian Art: From Early Icons to Malevich'' (2011).


Personal life

Milner-Gulland was born to a Scottish father, Laurence Harry "Hal" Milner-Gulland and an Australian mother, Nancy Ruth Bavin (the daughter of
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, former
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). Milner-Gulland has been married to the artist Alison Taylor since 1966, and has three children (including E.J. Milner-Gulland), four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.


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Description of Milner-Gulland's occupation by the University of Sussex

Description of Milner-Gulland's occupation by the British Academy
{{DEFAULTSORT:Milner-Gulland, Robin Fellows of the British Academy 1936 births Alumni of the University of Oxford Alumni of New College, Oxford Historians of Russia 20th-century British historians People from Mill Hill Academics of the University of Sussex Historians of England Living people English people of Australian descent English people of New Zealand descent English people of Scottish descent