Boris Andreyevich Uspensky (born 1 March 1937, Moscow

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) is a Russia

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n philologist and mythographer.

Uspensky graduated from Moscow University in 1960. He delivered lectures in Moscow until 1982, but later moved on to work in Harvard University

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, Cornell University

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, Vienna University, and the University of Graz

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. Full professor of Russian literature

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 at the Naples Eastern University

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, he was elected to many scholarly societies and academies of Europe.

Uspensky worked with Yuri Lotman

Yuri Lotman

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 and was influenced by his ideas as a member of Tartu-Moscow semiotics school.