Vladimir Plugin
Vladimir Alexandrovich Plugin was a Russian historian and art historian, a university professor. He worked in the fields of the history of Russia, source criticism, art history, social and political history, war history, history of the army and navy. He specialized in Old Russian Chronicles, Russian icons. He penned Rublev's biography titled The Master of the Holy Trinity: Andrei Rublev's Works and Days.
Plugin studied at the Moscow State University and graduated from the Faculty of History, where he studied under Viktor Lazarev and Mikhail Belyavsky. He taught at the Moscow State University since 1968.Works
