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Vladimir Nikolayevich Toporov (Russian:Влади́мир Никола́евич Топоро́в; 5 July 1928 inMoscow – 5 December 2005 in Moscow) was a Russianphilologist associated with theTartu–Moscow Semiotic School. His wife wasTatyana Elizarenkova. He is also recognized as a prominentBalticist.
Toporov authored more than 1500 works, includingAkhmatova and Dante (1972),Towards the Reconstruction of the Indo-European Rite (1982),Aeneas: a Man of Destiny (1993),Myth. Rite. Symbol. Image (1995),Holiness and Saints in the Russian Spiritual Culture (1998), andPetersburg Text of Russian Literature (2003). He translated theDhammapada into Russian and supervised the ongoing edition of the most complete vocabulary of thePrussian language to date (5 volumes).
Among Toporov's many honours were theUSSR State Prize (1990), which he turned down to voice his protest against the repressiveJanuary Events of the Soviet administration inLithuania; the first everSolzhenitsyn Prize (1998), and theAndrei Bely Prize for 2004. He was a member of theRussian Academy of Sciences and many other scholarly societies.
