Our Christmas Book Fair is the perfect opportunity to find thoughtful gifts for the book lover in your life – or to treat yourself. Running from 13–20 December, the fair will feature a curated selection of titles from the Pushkin House bookshop, second-hand gems, and an array of Russian-language books.

The fair will kick off with a special evening on Friday, 13 December featuring celebrated political scientist, author, Pushkin House trustee, and book lover Ekaterina Schulmann overseeing the bookseller stall. A bar serving mulled wine and other refreshments will also be open throughout the evening.

To ensure a comfortable experience, visitors are asked to reserve an allocated time slot for this event. These are available by the hour – 4pm to 5pm, 5pm to 6pm, and so on until doors close at 9pm. Full details and reservations can be made via the button – link on the left.

We look forward to celebrating this festive season with you!

Ekaterina Schulmann currently resides in Berlin as a fellow in the Robert Bosch Academy, and specialises in the legislative process in modern Russia, parliamentarism and decision-making mechanisms in hybrid political regimes. Until April 2022 she was a senior lecturer at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA). From Dec 2018 to Oct 2019 she was a member of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights. She serves as an associate professor at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (MSSES), is the author of the books Legislation as a Political Process and Practical Politology: a guide to the contact with reality (collection of articles), and one of the co-authors of the The New Autocracy: Information, Politics, and Policy in Putin’s Russia (Brookings Institution Press 2018). She has published extensively for leading institutions like the Moscow Carnegie Centre and had a long-running show on the now-banned Echo Moskvy radio station, which has been continued on her Youtube channel that has a large subscriber audience. She is also a member of the Editorial Board of the UNESCO Courier magazine.