Boris Andreevich Uspenskij is a Russian linguist, philologist, semiotician, historian of culture. Wikipedia
Born: 1937 (age 87 years), Moscow, Russia
Children: Fedor Borisovič Uspenskij
Academic advisors: Vyacheslav Ivanov, Louis Hjelmslev, and P. S. Kuznetsov
Books
"Tsar and God" and Other Essays in Russian Cultural Semiotics
2012
A Poetics of Composition: The Structure of the Artistic Text and Typology of a Compositional Form
1973
The Semiotics of Russian Culture
1984
The Semiotics of Russian Cultural History: Essays
1985
The Semiotics of the Russian Icon
1976
Principles of Structural Typology
1968