On December 23, 2015, the PhD Dissertation by Ekaterina V. Gusarova The Emperor of Ethiopia  Tekle Giyorgis I: Epoch and  Personality (Ethiopian Medieval Monarchy at the End of the 18th c.) [Царь Эфиопии Такла Гиоргис I: эпоха и личность (Эфиопская средневековая монархия в конце XVIII в.)] was successfully defended.

The PhD Dissertation supervisor - Prof. Dr. S.A. Frantsouzoff, IOM RAS.

The official opponents - Dr. V.S. Yagya, St Petersburg State University, and Dr. K.A. Panchenko, Moscow State University.

The neutral organization -  The Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, RAS.

The PhD dissertation, its synopsis and all the reviews are available in Russian on the Russian version of the IOM web-site.