Education
Moscow State University.
medievalist university professor
Moscow State University.
His work in Italian archives helped bring to light the records of Genoese and Venetian notaries and accountants concerning their Black Sea colonies. Some of his monographs are available in Italian translation. He was awarded a State Prize in 1996 and was elected into the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2003.
Karpov has been Dean of the Department of History of the Moscow State University since 1995.
Russian Academy of Sciences.