Alexei Lavrentiev, PhD (Linguistics), is a research Engineer at IHRIM Laboratory, CNRS, Lyon, France. His fields of interest include corpus linguistics, digital philology, textometry and history of the French language. He is the manager of the Base de français médiéval corpus (http://bfm-corpus.org), co-editor of the digital edition of La Queste del saint Graal and member of the TXM development team. He teaches at École normale supérieure de Lyon and at Novosibirsk State University. A. Lavrentiev has been involved in a number of French and international funded research projects including Oriflamms (Ontology Research, Image Features, Letterform Analysis on Multilingual Medieval Scripts), Interaction of languages and cultures in the universe of francophone Russian personal diaries in the 19th century. Personal webpage: http:// ihrim.ens-lyon.fr/auteur/lavrentev-alexei.

Liubov Kurysheva, Ph.D. (Philology), is a Leading Researcher at the Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Her main fields of interest are Russian literature of the 18th century, handwritten fiction, Russian-European literary connections; Research grants supported by Russian scientific foundations: “An Introduction to the Scientific Circulation of the Newly Found Manuscript Fiction of the 18th сentury (A.I. Shlyapkin’s, P.M. Maltsev’s, and A.A. Titov’s Collections)” (RFBR, 2016-2018); “Russian Handwritten Retellings of the Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso in the 18th Century: A Textological Study of the Story of Alfonze Ramir” (RFH, 2008-2011).