Vladimir Alexandrovich Plugin (; 30 July 1937 – 6 December 2003) was a Russian historian, art historian and university professor. He worked in the fields of the history of Russia, source criticism, art history, social and political history, war history, history of the army and navy. He specialized in Old Russian Chronicles, Russian icons (specifically Andrei Rublev's). He penned Rublev's biography titled The Master of the Holy Trinity: Andrei Rublev's Works and Days ().
Plugin studied at the Moscow State University and graduated from the Faculty of History, where he studied under Viktor Lazarev and Mikhail Belyavsky. He taught at the Moscow State University since 1968.
Works
Eschatology as a Subject in the Old Church Slavonic Social Thought (), 1971 The Worldview of Andrei Rublev (), 1974 Sergius of Radonezh — Dmitry Donskoy — Andrei Rublev (), 1989 Alekhan, or a Person with a Scar: A Biography of Alexei Orlov-Chesmensky (), 1996 The Master of the Holy Trinity: Andrei Rublev's Works and Days (), 2001 The History of Russian and Soviet Art (), 1989
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