Conquering Nature in Sakhalin and the Arctic
Guests: Paul Josephson and Sharyl Corrado on conquering nature, settlement, and Russian expansion in the Arctic and Sakhalin.
April 21, 2023
Imperial Russia
Queer Spaces in Imperial St. Petersburg
Guest: Olga Petri on Places of Tenderness and Heat: The Queer Milieu of Fin-de-Siècle St. Petersburg published by Cornell University Press.
August 2, 2022
The Return of the Romanovs
Guest: Russell Martin on the recent wedding of George Romanov and Victoria Romanovna Bettarini.
October 22, 2021
The Vampires of A. K. Tolstoy
Guest: Irina Erman on her article “Nation and Vampiric Narration in Aleksey Tolstoy’s “The Family of the Vourdalak” published in the January 2020 issue of The Russian Review.Â
October 8, 2021
Russian Conquest of Central Asia
Guest: Alexander Morrison on The Russian Conquest of Central Asia published by Cambridge University Press.
September 3, 2021
Russian Revolutionaries in Exile
Guest: Faith Hillis on Utopia’s Discontents: Russian Exiles and the Quest for Freedom, 1830–1930 published by Oxford University Press.
August 6, 2021
Weddings and Power in Early Modern Russia
Russell Martin on The Tsar’s Happy Occasion: Ritual and Dynasty in the Weddings of Russia’s Rulers, 1495–1745 published by Cornell University Press.
July 23, 2021
Rebroadcast: Smoking Under the Tsars
Guest: Tricia Starks on Smoking under the Tsars: A History of Tobacco in Imperial Russia published by Cornell University Press.
July 12, 2021
Prostitution in Late Imperial Russia
Guest: Siobhán Hearne on Policing Prostitution: Regulating the Lower Classes in Late Imperial Russia published by Oxford University Press.
May 7, 2021
Gogol’s Town of N
Guest: Anne Lounsbery on Life Is Elsewhere: Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces, 1800–1917 published by Cornell University Press.
April 16, 2021
