Olga MaiorovaOlga Maiorova is Associate Professor of Russian Literature and History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is the author of From the Shadow of Empire: Defining the Russian Nation through Cultural Mythology, 1855–1870 (2010) and has edited sveral books, including a two-volume edition of previously unpublished works by the major nineteenth-century writer Nikolai Leskov (1997–2000, in Russian) with Ksenia Bogaevskaya and Lia Rosenblium. Read More Read Less