St Petersburg State University Image Dr Ilia Kalinin is a Calvert-Smolny Fellow at the Princess Dashkova Russian Centre. He is Associate Professor in the Department of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Smolny College) at St Petersburg State University. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the journal Neprikosnovennyi Zapas: Debaty o politike i kul'ture (NZ: Debates on Politics and Culture). His current research deals with problems of collective memory in post-Soviet Russia. On 10th of October Dr Ilya Kalinin gave a research seminar at the Dashkova Russian Centre entitled ‘Empire of Memory: Mnemonic Patriotism and ‘Post-Colonial Challenges’ in Contemporary Russia’. This article was published on 2024-08-13