I was privileged to have Nina Khrushcheva, Nikita Khrushchev’s great granddaughter, as my research assistant when I was Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. She is now a tenured professor at the New School University in New York. In her book on Vladimir Nabokov, she muses on what it means to live in two cultures, and in so doing gives us insights into the moral and intellectual struggle going on in Russia today. If you are interested in Vladimir Nabokov or in intellectual currents in today’s Russia, it will fascinate you.
