Irina V. Gerasimova

Born in Minsk. She graduated from Glinka Minsk Music College, graduated and became a postgraduate of the Musicology Faculty of Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg State Conservatory (class of N. B. Zakharyina), master’s and postgraduate studies of the History Faculty of the European University in St. Petersburg (class of M. M. Krom). In 2010, she defended her Candidate Disserta­tion “Nikolai Diletsky: the creative path of a com­poser of the 17th century” at The Gnesins Russian Academy of Music. In 2013, she defended her Candidate Dissertation on national history “The socio-cultural environment of Vilna in the middle of the 17th century” at St. Petersburg Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Iri­na Gera­simova is an author of more than 60 articles on the history and musical culture of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Mos­cow Kingdom of the 16th–18th centuries, including the monograph “Under the Power of the Russian Tsar: The Socio-cultural Environment of Vilna in the Middle of the 17th Century” (St. Petersburg, 2015), musical editions of East Slavic Baroque composers: Nicolaus Dylecki (ca. 1630–1690)—Vesperae, Liturgia, Concertos quatrum vocum (Warszawa, 2018); Tomasz Szewerowski—Ves­pe­rae (Warszawa, 2019).