Anzhelika Artyukh lives in Saint-Petersburg, Russia.  She graduated from The State Academy of Theater as well as the Russian Institute of Art History (Department of Cultural Studies).  She has been working as a film critic since 1994.  Her articles have been published in several Russian professional film journals, including Iskusstvo kino, Seans, Kinovedcheskie zapiski, Film Comment, OpenSpace, Imago, and Kommersant”—Vlast’. She teaches film criticism at the Saint-Petersburg University of Film and Television.  In 2003 she received an award in memory of Michail Levitin from the Russian Guild of Film Scholars and Critics.