Vera Tchentsova received her PhD from the Institute of General History of the Academy of Sciences of Russia in Moscow (1995), where she started to conduct research specializing in Byzantine history. She is an associated member of the UMR 8167 “Orient et Méditerranée / Monde byzantin” in Paris and of the Maison française d’Oxford. Her interest in manuscripts and archival documents then led her to join the research projects on the unpublished materials concerning the relations of Russia with the Christian East in the 16^th-18^th centuries from the Muscovite depositories. Later she combined these studies with the research  of documentary materials in foreign collections (Greece, Italy, Ukraine, Romania), preparing publications regarding church contacts, diplomatic links assured by the representatives of the Orthodox clergy, international politics in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, translatio of “Byzantine heritage”, post-Byzantine art and its influence in East-European countries.

She is the author of Ikona Iverskoĭ Bogomateri (The Icon of Our Lady of Iviron), Moscow, 2010; Kievskaia mitropolia mezhdu Konstantinopolem i Moskvoj, 1686 (The Metropolitan See of Kyiv between Constantinople and Moscow, 1686), Kyiv, 2020, and of numerous articles on Church history.

Currently she carries out her work participating in several projects intended to make available to the scholars the unpublished materials concerning the Eastern Church. She conducts research in four main areas: 1) paleographic methods of studies of Greek letters of the 16^th-18^th centuries and cataloguing of Greek documents from the archival funds in Moscow; 2) documentary materials on the two voyages accomplished in 1650-1670s by Macarius, Patriarch of Antioch, and his son, Archdeacon Paul of Aleppo, to Constantinople, the Romanian Principalities, Ukraine, and Russia; 3) the metropolitan See of Kyiv, Patriarchate of Constantinople and Russia in the 17^th century; 4) translation and transformation of Greek prophetic and esoteric texts in Moscow.