Olga A. Tsapina
Norris Foundation Curator of American History/Chief Manuscripts Cataloger
986 La Canada Verdugo Rd.
Pasadena CA 91103
Phone:(626) 405-2209
otsapina@huntington.org
Education
Ph.D. (Candidate of the Historical Sciences), 1998, Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia). Thesis: Intellectual Life in Russia in the time of Enlightenment: Rev. Petr Alekseev (1727-1801)MA, 1985, Moscow State University. Thesis: The Population of Kargopol' and Turchasov in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century. Diploma Cum Laude, Best Thesis of the Year (1985)
In progress
- The Strange Case of Philip Ludwell, III: Anglican Enlightenment and Eastern Orthodoxy in Colonial Virginia.
- Us and Them: Anti-Catholicism in Eighteenth Century Russia and Its International Context
- True Religion and Genuine Enlightenment: Eastern Orthodoxy, Orientalism, and Religious Enlightenment in the Eighteenth Century.
Select Publications (in English)
- “Beyond the Synodal Church : Problems and Perspectives in the Study of Eighteenth Century Russian Orthodoxy,” Classical Russia : 1 (2006)
- “Secularization and Opposition in Times of Catherine the Great,” Religion and Politics in Enlightenment Europe / edited by James E. Bradley, DaleK. Van Kley. (Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 2001): 355-392.
- “The Image of the Quaker and Critique of Enthusiasm in Early Modern Russia,” Russian History / Histoire Russe (Fall 1997); 251-278.
- Articles on Enlightenment and Freemasonry in McMillan Encyclopedia of Russian History (Thomson Gale, 2005)
- “Something Old, Something New: Continuity and Modernization in Eighteenth Century Russia,” Eighteenth Century Studies: 35 (2002).
Select Publications (in Russian)
- Moskovskii Kreml': Ukazatel' literatury [The Moscow Kremlin: A Complete Bibliography], 1723-1987 : 2 vol. (Moscow, 1989 -- 1998)
- “Orthodox Enlightenment: Oxymoron or Historical Reality?" Evropeiskoir Prosveshchenie i Rossiskaia Tsivilizatisia / Les Lumieres Europeennes et la Civilization de la Russie (Moscow : Nauka, 2006).
- “At War with Enlightenment? Church Censorship in Eighteenth Century Russia,” Eighteenth Century Russia: Society, Culture, Economy : Papers from the VIIth International Conference of the Study Group for Eighteenth Century Russia, Wittenberg, 2004 / ed. by Roger Bartlett and Gabriela Lehman-Carli (Munster : LIT-Verlag, 2007).