RUSSIAN BERLIN

Welcome to the pathway to Russian Berlin! Here we have recreated a city whose topography is as if superimposed onto that of the German cultural capital. It is our goal to decode the resultant palimpsest on multiple levels and at various historical junctures. While most of the work done to this moment concentrates on important figures of the 1920s,such as Vladimir Nabokov and Andrei Bely, we want ultimately to create a space where one would be able to travel as far back as Frederick I's Enlightenment Berlin and also to look at Russian communities in the contemporary metropolis. In this "anthropological" pursuit, literature, art, music, politics, and the public sphere of newspapers and magazines, events and advertisements will become our focal points and provide connective threads with the other pathways.