Alexandra SmithAlexandra Smith is Reader in Russian Studies at the University of Edinburgh. She has published extensively on Russian literature and culture and authored several books including Poetic Canons, Cultural Memory and Russian National Identity after 1991 (co-authored with Katharine Hodgson, 2020), which was awarded the Alexander Nove 2020 Prize in Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies. Smith has also authored Montaging Pushkin: Pushkin and Visions of Modernity in Russian 20th-century Poetry (2006); and The Song of the Mockingbird: Pushkin in the Work of Marina Tsvetaeva (1994). Read More Read Less