PhD Candidate
Late Modern Europe
I study mass culture and labor movements, with a particular focus on the People's Houses in the Russian Empire/USSR (Narodnii Dom) and Italy (Casa del Popolo) in the 1800s—1920s. My previous research has centered on intellectuals and artistic circles: Russian-Ukrainian historian Mykola Kostomarov and Brotherhood of Saints Cyril and Methodius, writer and publicist Marietta Shaginian and Symbolist circles in the fin de siècle period in the Russian Empire. In recent years, I have delved into he experiences of Silver Age artists, musicians, and writers during the tumultuous period of War Communism (1918—1921). I explored the history of the Petrograd House of Arts, one of the first central cultural organizations after the Revolutions of 1917. Some of its members were deeply engaged with the working class, sparking my interest in the culture and daily lives of laborers. This curiosity ultimately led me to study the People's Houses—cultural and political organizations for workers that proliferated worldwide, from Vladivostok to San Francisco.
Research Interests:
- Labor history
- Social history
- Cultural history
- Urbanization
- Comparative history
Education:
BA in Russian Philology, St. Petersburg State University (2019)
MA in Art History, European University at St. Petersburg (2021)
Postgraduate diploma in Art History and Theory, European University at St. Petersburg (2024)
Publications:
- Petrograd House of Arts as an Organizational Experiment of the War Communism Period, in New Literary Review. 2024 (6): 117–139. [in Russian]
- Visual Art Section of the Petrograd House of Arts: Between the “World of Art” and the People’s Commissariat of Education, in Iskusstvoznanie. 2024 (2): 324–349. [in Russian]
- Music section of the Petrograd House of Arts, in Bulletin of Vaganova Ballet Academy. 2024 (5): 139–161. [in Russian]
- Historical Prose and Romantic Historiography: the Image of Ivan the Terrible in the Works of M. I. Kostomarov, in Summer School on Russian Literature. 2018. Vol. 14 (4): 372–390. [in Russian]
