Igor Kuziner

Senior Lecturer: HSE Campus in St. Petersburg / School of Arts and Humanities / Department of History
Junior Research Fellow: HSE Campus in St. Petersburg / School of Arts and Humanities / Centre for Historical Research

Igor Kuziner has been at HSE University since 2023.

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Education and Degrees

2022

Candidate of Sciences* (PhD)
HSE University

2021

Doctoral programme
HSE University

2018

Master's in Religious Studies
Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, Department of Religious studies and Theology

2011

Degree
Bonch-Bruevich St Petersburg State University of Telecommunication

* Candidate of Sciences
According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, Candidate of Sciences belongs to ISCED level 8 - "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar. Candidate of Sciences allows its holders to reach the level of the Associate Professor.

Professional Interests

Orthodox Old Believers late Russian Empire Interwar Soviet history history of religion anthropology of religion Eastern Christianity church and state religious minorities Religion in Modern World Russian nationalism

Awards and Accomplishments

Best Teacher — 2022–2023

Courses (2024/2025)

Global History in the Twentieth Century (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 3 module)Eng
Global History: Introduction (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities field of study History, field of study History; 1 year, 1 module)Eng
Global History: Introduction (Mago-Lego; 1 module)Rus
Historical Geography (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
History in a Changing World (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 1-3 module)Rus
Research Seminar - 2 (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 2 year, 2-4 module)Rus
The Arts of not Being Governed (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities field of study History, field of study History; 2 year, 1 module)Eng
The Arts of not Being Governed (Mago-Lego; 1 module)Eng
Past Courses

Courses (2023/2024)

Global History (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 3 year, 2 module)Eng
Global History (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities field of study History, field of study History; 1 year, 1 module)Eng
Global History (Mago-Lego; 1 module)Eng
Global History in the Twentieth Century (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 3 module)Eng
Historical Geography (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
History in a Changing World (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 2-4 module)Rus
Research Seminar - 2 (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 2 year, 2-4 module)Rus
The Arts of not Being Governed (Mago-Lego; 3 module)Eng

Courses (2022/2023)

Global History (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
Global History: Introduction (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities field of study History, field of study History; 1 year, 1 module)Eng
Global History: Introduction (Mago-Lego; 1 module)Eng
Historical Geography (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
History in a Changing World (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
History of Imperial Russia (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 3 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Research Seminar (Bachelor’s programme; Institute of Asian and African Studies; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus

Courses (2021/2022)

Global History (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
Historical Geography (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Management; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Historical Geography (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Historical Geography (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study History, field of study History; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Historical Geography (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
History in a Changing World (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Research Seminar (Bachelor’s programme; Institute of Asian and African Studies; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus

Timetable for today

Full timetable

Dissertation for a Candidate of Sciences degree

2022
I. Kuziner Биографические траектории и социальные трансформации старообрядцев-странников в первой трети XX века

Grants

Russian Scientific Foundation grant no. 24-28-01622. Project “Socialist Legality and Crimes against Women in the Interwar USSR”, 2024-2025

Russian Foundation for Basic Research grant № 19-59-22006. Project: “Marking space religiously: comparative research on a presence of Russian Orthodox Church in Russia and France”, 2019

The German historical institute in Moscow (DHI)’s scholarship for archival research, 2020

Podcast "Zakat Imperii": Old Believers - Wanderers (in Russian)

https://dronopaedia.ru/zakat/s6/e14-wanderers.html

Jun

2024

Igor Kuziner's Article on Red Death Legend Published in "Ab Imperio"

The article "What Is Our People’s Guilt? Wanderers, Ritual Murder, and the Boundaries of Russianness in the Late Russian Empire" by Igor Kuziner, Junior Fellow Research at Centre for Historical Research, was published in May issue of "Ab Imperio".

Jul

2023

'City Legends': Historian Igor Kuziner on His Favourite Places in St Petersburg

Meet Igor Kuziner, a native Petersburger and a Senior Lecturer of the Department of History. Having left his engineering career, he started studying Old Believers-wanderers and received a PhD degree. Together with the researcher, you will go on an excursion around an Old-believers' cemetery in St Petersburg, get into the attics at Prospekt Stachek and find the remains of a Protestant church in the village Zaozerye. Read about all these things in the article.

Apr

2023

The Master's in 'Global and Regional History' Trains Specialists in History and Anthropology

The Master's programme 'Global and Regional History' has two educational tracks: one historical and one anthropological. The main goal of the programme is to prepare graduates to continue their academic careers. However, students will also be able to work in more applied fields: in museums, publishing companies, exhibitions, and marketing. Find out which courses await students and why the programme rejects traditional divisions into Russian and world history in this interview with Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov, the programme's Academic Supervisor.