Free courses
1914 - Pan-humanity, or the First World War and Europe
Petr Safronov
(Philosopher, independent researcher)
1980s: When everyone turned into ghosts
Petr Safronov
(Philosopher, independent researcher)
Author's Voice in Contemporary Fiction
Free Creative Writing
Sergey Lebedenko
(Independent correspondent for Novaya Gazeta, literary critic, teacher of journalism and literary excellence)
Autobiographical Poetics of the Russian Diaspora
Free Creative Writing
Victor Dimitriev
(Candidate of Philological Sciences, specialist in Russian émigré literature of the interwar period, Russian-French relations, and the works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Catfication. An interdisciplinary course exploring the optics of human perception of the cat in space and time
Anna Kondratyeva
(the veterinary physician of the Hermitage cats, public figure and social entrepreneur, member of the Public Council on Animal Issues in St. Petersburg)
Conscious Reading
Sergey Lebedenko
(Independent correspondent for Novaya Gazeta, literary critic, teacher of journalism and literary excellence)
Cultural and Political Journalism Workshop
Diary literature of the Soviet totalitarian era
Natalya Gromova
(Prose writer, historian of Soviet literature, author of articles and books)
Dramatic Writing. How to write for film and theatre today: an introduction to contemporary drama
Free Creative Writing
Evolution of plot and genre
Dmitry Bykov
(Writer)
Experimental Drama: A Practical Course
Free Creative Writing
Evgeniy Stashkov
(Sheffield-based playwright, artist, teacher, founder of the international independent festival of non-conventional drama “Nim”)
Genre Formation in the Modern Russian Literature
Evgeniy Ermolin
(Writer, literary critic, literary critic, publicist, blogger)
Genre: detective, horror, fantasy, historical novel
Free Creative Writing
Nelly Shulman
(Writer, historian, graduate student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Dissertation on Comparative Literature). Publishes in Russian and English)
History of Soviet Literature 1917-1956
Free Creative Writing
Natalya Gromova
(Prose writer, historian of Soviet literature, author of articles and books)
History of Soviet poetry
Dmitry Bykov
(Writer)
How to write text in English
Free Creative Writing
Dmitry Bykov
(Writer)
Intellectual Resistance to Official Ideology in the First Years of the War
Free Creative Writing
Olga Bugoslavskaya
Introduction to Publishing Venture
Free Creative Writing
Vladimir Kharitonov
(Cand.Sc. in Philosophy, Director of Free University Publishing House, Technical Director of Freedom Letters Publishers)
Introduction to the theory and practice of humanism
Elena Cherepanov
(PhD psychology)
Introductory acting course "The Birth of the New" (according to the method of Mikhail Chekhov)
Olesya Savchenko
(Director, Researcher and teacher of acting by the method of Mikhail Chekhov, member of the Michael Chekov Association (USA, MICHA))
Laboratory of the Lasting Catastrophe
Free Creative Writing
Elena Kostyuchenko
(journalist and writer, works with Novaya Gazeta, Meduza, various foreign media, author of the book “My Beloved Country)
Literary memoirs and autobiographical prose of the Soviet period
Free Creative Writing
Natalya Gromova
(Prose writer, historian of Soviet literature, author of articles and books)
Literary Theory and Challenges of Modernity
Free Creative Writing
Poetics,(Literary) Critique and Poetry Theory: Is it possible to evaluate(poetry)?
Tatiana Voltskaya
(Poet, essayist, author of 17 collections of poems)
Poetry master class with Katya Kapovich
Katia Kapovich
(poet)
Poetry of Experiment
Free Creative Writing
Anna Aksenova
(Cand.Sc. in Philology, ndependent researcher, writer and interpreter)
Predictions and prophecies in world literature
Dmitry Bykov
(Writer)
Russian incarnations
Dmitry Bykov
(Writer)
Russian incarnations (Emigration in literatute)
Dmitry Bykov
(Writer)
Russian prose of modern times (1990-2020)
Free Creative Writing
Tatyana Sotnikova
(Cand. Sc. in Philology, writer (pen name - Anna Berseneva))
Russian theatrical censorship: history and modernity
Free Creative Writing
Mikhail Kaluzhsky
(Playwright and journalist)
Screen imagery in modern cinema and television
Valery Balayan
(Film director, radio journalist, documentary film screenwriter)
Stories of Power: The Practice of Posttraumatic Drama
Free Creative Writing
Sergey Davydov
(Playwright, screenwriter, poet, author of the novel Springfield. Nominee for the Dar Award, winner of the Kulminatsiya. Play of the Year Award, specially recognized with the Golden Mask National Award. Author of more than 30 plays that have been staged in Moscow, St. Petersburg, London, Berlin, Los Angeles, Belgrade, Tbilisi, and other cities. Author of the feature film I Have to Run (Germany).)
The Art of Understanding Music
Free Creative Writing
Grigoriy Pantielev
(music critic, Cand.Sc. in art history)
The Art of Women Composers in the Context of Male Composer Tradition
Free Creative Writing
Grigoriy Pantielev
(music critic, Cand.Sc. in art history)
The History of Creative Human-AI Interaction from Homer to Nick Bostrom
Free Creative Writing
Michael Epstein
Gasan Guseinov
(Doctor of Philology)
The History of Soviet Culture in the 1970s
Dmitry Bykov
(Writer)
The Invisible Co-Author: How AI is Changing Creative Writing
Free Creative Writing
Tatyana Shakhmatova
The Writer as a Researcher
Free Creative Writing
Theory and Practice of Text Illustration
Free Creative Writing
Tatyana Sirotinina
(Designer, artist, corporate events and branding manager)
Through the Eyes of a Child: Stories by Russian, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Writers of the 20th Century
Free Creative Writing
Oleg Lekmanov
(Former professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow). Author of numerous books and hundreds of articles on Russian modernism, the history of 20th-century poetry and prose, Soviet children's literature, and the history of Russian and Soviet literature on love and sexuality.)
Workshop Poetry
Free Creative Writing
Tatiana Voltskaya
(Poet, essayist, author of 17 collections of poems)
Workshop Literary criticism
Free Creative Writing
Evgeniy Ermolin
(Writer, literary critic, literary critic, publicist, blogger)
Workshop Non-fiction
Free Creative Writing
Natalya Gromova
(Prose writer, historian of Soviet literature, author of articles and books)