Vladimir Alexandrov received a Ph. D. in comparative literature from Princeton. He taught Russian literature and culture at Harvard before moving to Yale, where he is now B. E. Bensinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures. His teaching and scholarship focus on Russian literature and culture of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He has written books on Andrei Bely, Vladimir Nabokov, and Leo Tolstoy, and published numerous articles on various other Russian writers and topics. His new book, The Black Russian, was published by Grove/Atlantic in March 2013.
Russia’s Black Entertainment Empresario: The Remarkable Saga of Fyodor Fyodorovich Tomas (Frederick Bruce Thomas)
Yale University literature scholar and historian Vladimir Alexandrov introduces The Black Russian— his new biography of a forgotten African American who led an extraordinary life in Russia and Turkey at the beginning of the twentieth century. The story of this book began six years ago, … Read MoreRussia’s Black Entertainment Empresario: The Remarkable Saga of Fyodor Fyodorovich Tomas (Frederick Bruce Thomas)