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Mythology and Counterbiography in Aleksandr Sokurov's Faust Cycle Аннотация: This paper examines Sokurov's use of contested historical and biographical sources to (de/re)mythologize the principal political figures in his Faust cycle: Nikolai I, Lenin, Hitler, and Hirohito. Сессия: Biography, Autobiography, Counterbiography This interdisciplinary panel considers biography as life and as narrative during the Bolshevik revolution, the Stalin years, and the post-Soviet lookback. Artists and political figures alike manipulated biographical facts to advance a particular agenda. In keeping with the conference's theme, the three papers in this panel examine three kinds of "transgressions" of biographical facts: by a writer self-authoring his literary autobiography, by a dictator intervening as outside agent to "author" a subordinate's lifetime of professional activity, and by a filmmaker using contested sources to recast the biographies of historical figures.