St Petersburg State University Image Dr Valery Timofeev is Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Western Literature, Saint-Petersburg State University. His major publications relate to the theory and history of literature and culture with special attention to the twentieth and twenty first century literary processes, Modernism and Post-Modernism. A focus of his research is also the problem of historical memory and local self-identity. On 17th of October Dr Valery Timofeev gave a research seminar at the Dashkova Russian Centre entitled ‘Historical Memory and Local Self-Identity in Kaliningrad and Vyborg’. This article was published on 2024-08-13