Živojin K.

I am Prof. Živojin Kerović, a professor and translator of Russian language and a professor of Russian language and literature. I am a philologist, Slavist, and folklorist.

I specialise in the following areas: Old Church Slavonic and Church Slavonic language, the history of the Russian language, Old Russian language, Paleoslavistics, morphology and syntax of the Russian language, phonetics of the Russian language, Old Russian literature up to the 18th century, Russian literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, folkloristics, translation theory, and Russian civilisation and culture. I have translated "The Life of Saint Anna of Kashin" from Old Russian, and an akathist from Church Slavonic. I have also translated Chekhov's short story "A Case from Medical Practice", as well as "The Life of Saint Alexander Svirsky", from Russian and Church Slavonic. I am a co-author of the book "Morphology and Syntax of the Russian Language", with my colleague Jaroslav Lacanić, and the book "Old Church Slavonic Language", with my colleague Snježana Vižintin. I am the author of several academic papers in the fields of Russian literature, stylistics of the Russian language, stylistics of artistic literature, lexicology, and phraseology of the Russian language, etc. I live and work in Banja Luka. I also run a YouTube channel where I publish my lectures on Russian studies and Slavic studies. Link to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/@bilbobaggins2807

I teach the following subjects: Proto-Slavic language (for those interested), Old Russian language, the history of the Russian language, Old Church Slavonic language, Russian language, Ukrainian language, phonetics of the Russian language, phonetics of the Ukrainian language, morphology and syntax of the Russian language, Russian civilisation and culture (the history of Russia), folkloristics (primarily the study of fairy tales), Russian literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, and Old Russian literature.