Mein Russland. Anfänge, Themen und Bilder

Abstract

Professor Gertrud Pickhan, a historian from Berlin, speaks about how she first showed interest in Russia in her youth when she enrolled on a course of Russian in Dortmund. Besides getting acquainted with classical Russian literature, she also had cultural contacts, and trips to Russia, where she discovered Russian painters, especially Levitan and Repin that have been the driving force of her scholarly interest ever since. She has a wide range of research interests. Except for painting and the history of Pskov, she studies freethinking marginals and creative personalities in a totalitarian state.