Valery Durov


Valery Semenovich Durov is a Russian antiquarian, philologist, and academic. From 1992-2013, he was head of the :ru:Филологический факультет Санкт-Петербургского государственного университета|Department of Classical Philology at St. Petersburg State University.

Career

Durov graduated from the Philological Faculty of Leningrad University in 1968, was in graduate school at the Department of Classical Philology and in 1974 he defended his thesis "The Tenth Satire of Juvenal".
His research interests include history and literature of ancient Rome, and he lectures and conducts seminars on the history of Roman literature and the various aspects of the Latin language.

Family

He is the father of Pavel Durov, the creator of the VK social network and the Telegram messaging service, as well as Nikolai Durov, a mathematician.

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