Education
Muravyov graduated from the philological faculty of the Moscow State University.
Muravyov graduated from the philological faculty of the Moscow State University.
He was awarded the Inolit Prize for Best Translation in 1987 (The Great Pursuit by Tom Sharpe). In 1976 Muravyov published a pioneering Russian article in the Soviet Union titled "Tolkien and Critics". Together with Andrey Kistyakovsky, he made the first official, though partial, Russian translation of the Lord of the Rings, published in 1982 with an introductory foreword.
Muravyov continued the work after Kistyakovsky"s death.
He wrote two monographs on Jonathan Swift (1968, 1972) and several articles on modern English-American science fiction. He was working in the Soviet Library of Foreign Literature when he started the search for Western reviews of The Lord of the Rings.
Muravyov noted the furor the book was causing and began discussing it with a few people. Muravyov"s son Alexey is a renowned scholar of Syriac Christian writers.
He is also a scholar on other Oriental Christian cultures and literatures.