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The Art of the Leningrad Underground

1219 International Affairs Building 420 West 118th Street, New York City

Please join us for a lecture by Alexander V. Markov, Professor and Deputy Dean, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow. This talk will be in Russian. Russian literary theory holds that the Petersburg/Leningrad text in Russian culture plays a vital role in the creative arts. The international recognition of Nobel Laureate Joseph Brodsky points us toward an understanding of the Leningrad text,…