On Saturday, June 14, Dr. Galina Rylkova presented “The Russian Silver Age and Its Legacy” as a part of the Russian History Museum’s Second Saturday online lecture series.

Why was the Silver Age such a special time in Russian history?

In her lecture, Dr. Rylkova describes the cultural scene in Russia prior to WWI, known as the Silver Age. What is special about it is not so much the period itself, but the ways in which it has been remembered and commemorated.

About the Speaker

Galina Rylkova is Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Florida (Gainesville, FL). She was born in Moscow, Russia, and received her M.A. in Romance-Germanic languages and literatures from Moscow State University. She then moved to Canada where she received her Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Toronto.

Rylkova has written more than twenty published research articles, numerous book reviews, and two books, The Archaeology of Anxiety: The Russian Silver Age and Its Legacy, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2007, and Breaking Free from Death: The Art of Being a Successful Russian Writer, published by Academic Studies Press in 2020.

Rylkova's research interests include: Psychology of Creative Personality; Narrative Medicine; Chekhov; Nabokov; Biography; and Russian Theater. She is currently working on two projects: "Chekhov as a Co-founder of Narrative Medicine," and "Alice in Wonderland, Eugene Onegin, Ada, and Lolita as Case Studies of Vladimir Nabokov's Transadaptations."