Sergey Zagraevsky

Professor Dr. Sergey Zagraevsky (Russian: Сергей Вольфгангович Заграевский. Hebrew: סרגיי זגרייבסקי) (born August 20, 1964, Moscow) is a Russian-Jewish architectural historian and writer.

Biography
Zagraevsky is the son of architectural historian Wolfgang Kawelmacher (1933–2004) and poet and dramatist Inna Zagraevsky (born 1933).

Between 2002-2005, Zagraevsky taught at the Moscow Institute of Restoration Arts, and subsequently at the Russian University of Intellectual Property and in the Vladimir-Souzdal Museum. The main themes of his architectural history research are ancient Russian white-stone buildings, the early architecture of Moscow and architectural connections between ancient Russia and Romano-Gothic Europe. His doctoral thesis was "North-Eastern Russian architecture from the end of 13th - first third of the 14th century".

Zagraevsky is chief editor of the reference work "United Artists Rating" and the author of a number of books on philosophy, theology and the history of architecture. He has written a number of children's stories and many articles of art criticism. He is the founder and curator of "RusArch" - the electronic scientific library on History of Old Russian architecture.

In 1992, he became a Ph.D. of technique, received his doctorate in architecture in 2004, then became a Professor in 2005. Zagraevsky is also a full member of Russian art critics Academy (since 2001), the AICA (since 2004), and the Writers union of Russia (since 2001) and an Honored culture worker of Russia (since 2009).