Svetlana Boltovska

Dr. Svetlana Boltovska has been Head of Collections at the German-Russian Museum in Berlin-Karlshorst since 2020. Previously, she was a research associate at the Herder Institute for Historical East Central European Research since 2015. She studied philosophy, ethnology, and Slavic studies at the University of Freiburg, among other places, and received her doctorate with a thesis on educational migration from sub-Saharan Africa in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

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Abraham Hannibal

How a black African became a nobleman in the time of the slave trade in the Russian Empire

Abraham Petrovič Hannibal (circa 1696-1781) was a central figure during the early stages of the African Diaspora in Russia. He was one of the first Russian Enlightenment thinkers and the great-grandfather of the most important poet and creator of the modern Russian language, Alexander Pushkin.

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