On Saturday, December 14, Dr. Nina Khrushcheva presented “Vladimir Nabokov and the Anatomy of Russian Exile” as a part of the Russian History Museum’s Second Saturday online lecture series.

Vladimir Nabokov is politically relevant again. In the last decade, the theme of immigration and dissent in Russia has become as important as it was half a century ago before the Soviet Iron Curtain fell in the late 1980s. In her lecture, Nina Khrushcheva talks about Vladimir Nabokov’s enduring influence on Russian literature and politics.

In the extended Q&A session, Nina Khrushcheva addresses questions about “Lolita,” Nabokov’s literary legacy in modern Russia, and his wife, Véra.

About the Speaker

Nina Khrushcheva is a professor of International Affairs at The New School in New York and a contributor to Project Syndicate: Association of Newspapers Around the World. Her articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, and other international publications. She is the author of several books including In Putin’s Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia’s 11 Time Zones (2019) (co-authored) and Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics (2008). Her latest book (in Russian) is a biography of her great-grandfather, Nikita Khrushchev: An Outlier of the System (Diletant, 2024).