Background
Irina Stepanovna Prikhodko was born on April 23, 1943 in Vyazma, Smolensk, Russian Federation.
Irina Stepanovna Prikhodko was born on April 23, 1943 in Vyazma, Smolensk, Russian Federation.
In 1966 Irina Stepanovna graduated from Voronezh State University.
Irina Stepanovna was a teacher at Karelian State Pedagogical Institute (Petrozavodsk, 1967-1969) and Vladimir State Pedagogical Institute (1972-2003). Since September 2003 - Professor at the Department of Foreign Literature at Sholokhov Moscow State University for Humanities. At the same time leading research officer at the department of Russian literature of the late XIX - the early XX centuries at the A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (since January 2004).
The author of many articles about the creative work of Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok, Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov, Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky and other poets; as well as of many monographs "Mifopoetika A. Bloka" ("Mythopoetics of A. Blok") (Vladimir, 1994), "Aleksandr Blok i russkiy simvolizm: mifopoeticheskiy aspect" ("Aleksandr Blok and Russian symbolism: mythopoetic aspect") (Vladimir, 1996). Composed an epilogue for the Gustave Flaubert’s book "The Legend of St. Julian the Hospitaller" (Moscow, 2007).