Meet me
I'll be based in a few cities over the coming months. If you're nearby during any of these stretches, get in touch and we can arrange to meet.
Events
The Eurasianist Narrative between Interwar Emigration and Contemporary Russia
A discussion of my book with Filip J. Scherf, Alexander Dmitriev, and Martina Mecco, opening the "Slavic Intersections. A Forum for Books and Ideas in Slavic Studies" series.
Event details →I'll be presenting
I'll give a talk, "Utilization of the Open WebUI platform in Arkindex," in the WG1 session on experimental approaches. SCOOP brings together historians, philologists, and machine-learning researchers working on handwritten text recognition of historical sources.
View the programme →My workshop
My workshop, "Building a Unified Open-Source Pipeline for Archival Data Analysis," ran as part of the pre-conference program, streamed live for remote attendees.
View the conference program →I attended
Not presenting that time — just there to listen, learn, and talk shop.
View the program →Projects
COLD-WAR-EURASIA: Transformation of Eurasianism in US Cold War Slavic Studies
A Horizon Europe project, in cooperation with Columbia University, applying digital analysis to unpublished archival documents from Prague, Saint Petersburg, and New York to trace how Eurasianist thought evolved in US Cold War academia — centered on historian G. V. Vernadsky.
Project details →Modular Open-Source Workflow for the Analysis of Archival Documents
A modular workflow built on open-source tools (ownCloud, Zotero, Arkindex, Nodegoat, Logseq, Open WebUI) that I use in my own research on archival documents and have been developing long-term.
Project details →Transformations in the Reflection of Russian Political and Social Thought
A specific research project (MUNI/A/1114/2020) supporting doctoral research at the Department of Slavonic Studies. My contribution examined the foundations of P. N. Savitsky's literary-theoretical concepts and their reception in the Soviet milieu.
Project details →Publications
The Transformation of Eurasianism in Soviet Intellectual Milieu, 1950s–1990s
Blurring the Lines and Establishing Artificial Continuity
A study of how Eurasianist historiographic and historisophic concepts developed and transformed within Soviet academia — tracing the contacts between interwar Eurasianists P. N. Savitsky and G. V. Vernadsky and Soviet intellectuals, above all L. N. Gumilev, from the end of WWII to the collapse of the USSR.
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Reviews & comments
Published reviews of the book, and an open space for readers to share their thoughts.
Reviews
Book review published in European History Quarterly (Jagiellonian University in Kraków). First published online May 14, 2026.
Read the review →Endorsements and reviews collected on the publisher's page.
See reviews at Bloomsbury →Let me know about your review
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