Dmitrii Likhachev was a Russian linguist and medievalist, one of the most important scholar of the Old Russian language and literature. Among his numerous publications: The Genesis of the Tale of Igor’s Campaign, Textology, The Poetics of Old Russian Literature, Russian Art from the Antiquity to Avantgarde.
Andrei Grishunin was a Russian scholar specialised in textology, editor of several critical editions of the works of Herzen, Griboedov, Turgenev, Nekrasov, Blok. He worked at the IMLI RAN. He is the author of many essays on theoretical textology.