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, To Break Russia’s Chains: Boris Savinkov and his Wars Against the Tsar and the Bolsheviks, as well as books on Bely, Nabokov, and Tolstoy, and lives in New Haven, Connecticut.