Vladimir Alexandrov

About The Author

Vladimir Alexandrov received a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Princeton. He taught Russian literature and culture at Harvard before moving to Yale, where he is B.E. Bensinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures. He is the author of The Black Russian as well as books on Bely, Nabokov, and Tolstoy, and lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

Books by Vladimir Alexandrov

When the Russians Came

The Remarkable Story of the Friendship between Imperial Russia and the Union during the Civil War

By Vladimir Alexandrov
The surprising and unknown story of how the United States and Russia forged an extraordinary friendship during the Civil War.
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To Break Russia's Chains

Boris Savinkov and His Wars Against the Tsar and the Bolsheviks

By Vladimir Alexandrov
A brilliant examination of the enigmatic Russian revolutionary about whom Winston Churchill said "few men tried more, gave more, dared more and suffered more for the Russian people," and who remains a legendary and controversial figure in his homeland today.
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