Biography
Architect by training, journalist by profession, Alexey Tarkhanov since the 1990s was head of the cultural department of the Russian daily Kommersant. In 2012 he was named permanent correspondent of the newspaper in Paris. He worked for the Moscow Architectural Institute, as well as the review Art Decorative, and his book Stalinist Architecture (co-authored by Sergei Kavtaradze) has been published in Great Britain, Germany and the USA.