Dr Alexey Makhrov

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Between 2000-2003 Dr Alexey Makhrov was AHRB Research Fellow in Russian Art History in the Department of Russian, School of Modern Languages, University of Exeter. He is currently an independent scholar, and Honorary University Fellow at the University of Exeter.

Makhrov is a graduate of the Academy of Arts, St Petersburg, and received his doctoral degree from the University of St Andrews. His research interests lie in the fields of the history of Russian art and architecture; Russian and European neo-classical architecture; Russian modernism; and the architecture of Nikolai L'vov.

His publications include 'The Pioneers of Russian Art Criticism: Between State and Public Opinion, 1804-1855', Slavonic and East European Review, 81: 4 (2003); 'Architecture and Politics: Catherine the Great's "Greek Project" in the Works of Nikolay L'vov', Newsletter of the Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia (1998); 'Earth Construction in Russia: A Scottish Connexion', Architectural History: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, 40 (1997), pp. 171-83; and 'Neo-Classical Avant-Garde: L'vov's Cathedral of St Joseph's, Mogilev, Belorussia', Inferno: St Andrews Journal of Art History, 2 (1995), pp. 64-74.