Victor Borovsky (b. 1939) is a Russian theatre historian.  In 1971, he recieved a Ph.D. from the Leningrad Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinematography, where he taught courses on Russian drama and opera for eighteen years- the last nine as Reader.  He also worked at the Leningrad Conservatoire, and has acted as artistic advisor for drama and opera productions in the USSR and, since 1979, in the West, where his expertise has also been called upon by companies such as Deutsche Grammophon and Sony Classical for opera recordings. He is a memeber of the Expert Council and opera consultant to the Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg, and currently teaches and lectures on Russian theatre history at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. 
Among his published works are The Moscow Private Opera of S.I. Zimin (Moscow, 1977), Stravinsky on Stage as co-author (Stainer & Bell, 1982), Chaliapin (Hamish Hamilton, London and Alfred Knopf, New York, 1988), and as contributor and co-editor of A History of Russian Theatre (Cambridge University Press, 1999).  He is now working on a new book, Russian Culture's Forgotten Name: Pyotr Gnedich.