Lyudmila Khrushkova

Lyudmila Georgievna Khrushkova (Russian: Людмила Георгиевна Хрушкова, romanized: Ljudmila Khroushkova, born 15 January 1943) is a Soviet–Abkhazian archaeologist and university professor.

In 2005 she was awarded the Makarius Prize for History of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Life

Khrushkova studied in Moscow at the Historical and Archive Institute in Moscow's Kitai-Gorod, which became the Russian State University for the Humanities in 1991.

After completing her studies, Khrushkova worked in the State Abkhaz Museum in Sukhumi. From 1974 until 1994, she was a research associate at the Abkhaz Institute of Language, Literature and History in Sukhumi. She carried out excavations in Abkhazia, with her research focusing on the early Christian and Byzantine periods in Abkhazia. Her teachers were Alisa Vladimirovna Bank (Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg) and Pavel Alexandrovich Rappaport (Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Leningrad). In 1978, Khrushkova was awarded a doctorate in historical sciences after defending her dissertation on sculpture in early medieval Abkhazia. In 1991, she was awarded a doctorate in historical sciences after defending her dissertation on early medieval art monuments in the eastern Black Sea region.

After Abkhazia became independent in 1993, thanks to the support of European scientific funds, Khrushkova worked for a total of about three years in libraries in Rome, Paris, Bonn and Vienna, studying art monuments and museums in Turkey, Greece, Italy, France, Germany, Austria, Croatia, Bulgaria, Albania and Poland. She took part in international congresses and gave lectures in Paris (Institut des hautes études en arts plastiques), Rome (Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana), Berlin and Vienna. She is the author of more than 150 scientific publications and 5 monographs.

In 2007, Khrushkova became a professor at the Faculty of History of the Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU). Currently, she continues her archaeological work in Abkhazia with excavations in Pitsunda and she studies monuments of Christian culture in Crimea. She participates in the Russian program for the study of Christian monuments in the Krasnodar region.  She has written articles for the Biographical Encyclopedia of Christian Archaeology.

Works

• Khroushkova, Liudmila (2006). Les monuments chrétiens de la côte orientale de la Mer Noire (in French). Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers. ISBN 2-503-52387-0.
• "Chersonesus in the Crimea: Early Byzantine capitals with fine-toothed acanthus leaves". De Gruyter. 2024-10-30. Retrieved 2024-10-30.
• Khrushkova, Ludmila (2019). "Ранневизантийские капители из Херсонеса Таврического". Материалы по археологии и истории античного и средневекового Причерноморья (11). Нижневартовский государственный университет: 303–469. ISSN 2713-2021. Retrieved 2024-10-30.
• "Lykhny : srednevekovyĭ dvort︠s︡ovyĭ kompleks v Abkhazii". LUX. Retrieved 2024-10-30.