Biography
Sergey Mokhov - a man versatile. He is known to the public as a scientist, writer, athlete, editor, as well as husband of political activist love sable. A man has been engaged in social anthropology and the main object of research and made the topic of death, which writes articles and books.Childhood and youth
Sergey was born on February 17, 1990. His childhood and youth passed in Moscow, where the future scientist first graduated from school, and then he was educated in the Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences. Despite the fact that the guy studied seriously and deeply, "Botany" he was never: the free watches of Mokhov devoted to the sport, he was fond of exercises with iron and became a notable metropolitan Powerlifter.
In the sports biography of Sergey, victories at the Moscow Championships, Moscow region and Russia, in which he participated from 2013 to 2016. During this period, a young man managed to earn the title of Master of Sports of the International Class and enter the number of "Eleks of Russia" according to the Russian Union of Powerlifter.
Serious sports did not interfere with Mokhov to delve into science. In 2015, he became a master of history in the University of Manchester, and 4 years later defended his thesis on the basis of Higher School of Economics. In it, Sergey analyzed the formation of the funeral industry in modern Russia. To collect material for work, the scientist engaged in field studies in the funeral brigades.
Personal life
Sergei's personal life attracts attention to his person no less than publications on a complex and partially taboo theme of dying and burial. In the girlfriend of the life of Mokhov elected a bright representative of the political life of Russia Love Sobol. The ambitious blonde received fame as Aleksey Navalny's companion in the fight against corruption and in 2019 he fell into a hundred most influential women in the world according to the Air Force.The anthropologist's wife did not take his last name, retaining that the very sound that she went to her inheritance from the first marriage. In the Union with the Second Husband, love in 2014 gave birth to Miroslav's daughter. Photo girls regularly appear in the "instagram" of the mother. Sergey is less active in social networks, and "Facebook" chose as a platform for self-expression.
Scientific activity
Now Mokhova can be bolded to call the most popular Russian tanatologist - scientists exploring the problem of death. In recent years, a man actively studies issues related to the end of human life, touching the historical, anthropological, ethical and ritual aspects of the topic. Since 2015, Sergey has been released by the magazine "Archeology of Russian Death", where he showed himself as a pioneer of science about dying.
Publishing your developments in the sociological, anthropological and ethnographic periodical periodics, in 2018 the Mokhov summarized the experience in the book "The Birth and Death of the Funeral Industry: from medieval efforts to digital immortality." Tom came out in the publishing house Common Place and presented a deep analysis of the funeral process and the social context associated with him. In an interview, the author admitted that he had long been not experiencing emotions about death, perceiving it as an integral part of life.
The man pursues the goal to popularize the studied topic, remove the tabernaciousness from it, rid the reader from the fear of death and teach free and boldly talking about difficult things. Sergey does not forget to concern related problems - waiting for an inevitable dying, palliative accompaniment of preparing for the transition to another world, grief and sorrow of loss of loss.
At the same time, practical and actual issues of the device of the funeral industry in today's Russia invariably fall into the focus of the researcher. A man regularly expresses the funeral practices in Moscow and beyond, arguing about the infrastructure, pain points of the system and the benefits of the ritual business. As an expert, Mokhov appears in the rain, "culture", "Radio" Freedom ", and also on the pages of" Posters ", The Village and other media.
In 2018, Sergey received a scholarship of Oxford Russia Fellowship and continued to study the issues of death, focusing on leaving and palliative observation of dying people. Now its field conditions have become Russian hospices, where he spends most of the working time. In 2019, with the assistance of Mokhov, in Russia, the fundamental book of Robert Hertz "Death and the right hand" was published.
The scientist continues to engage in tanatology, adopting such problem areas such as euthanasia, necropholysticism, palliative medicine and immortality issues. He creates courses for online universities, teaches and is a researcher at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Sergey Mokhov now
In 2020, the scientist is working on the book "Death History. As we fight and accept ", the release of which was planned in the publishing house Individuum. At the same time, an English-speaking essay was preparing, dedicated to the grave practices in Russia, which is published in the British publishing house Emerald.
On June 5, 2020, Mokhov became the guest of an interviews blog of Irina Shikhman "and talk?", Where he spoke about the funeral culture in the USSR, Russia and other parts of the world. The first morgues, the most progressive countries in the funeral industry, embarrassment and cremation, funny advertising of ritual services, cemetery mafia - all this was the subject of watch fascinating conversation.