Vladimir Vysotsky Centre for Russian Studies

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The Centre’s mission is to bring Russian Culture to a Western audience, bridging the gap between Russia and the UK through facilitating an inter-cultural dialogue and to conduct research in the field of Russian thought, literature, music, history and art.

A distinctive feature of the Centre is to address the following fundamental questions:

• What is understood as Russian cultural identity and constitutes the quintessence of Russianness and the kernel of its values?
• What are its special features, and are they amenable to conceptualisation?
• How does the phenomenon of Vladimir Vysotsky resonate with the concept of Russian character and embody its essential traits?

The Centre is named after Vladimir Vysotsky (1938-1980) who became a cultural icon for the Russian nation during his lifetime, and continues to exert a considerable influence on Russian cultural developments and national identity. He was a poet, bard and actor, whose literary work was largely forbidden by the Soviet authorities, but whose songs, as unofficial audio recordings, could be heard from every window.

Vysotsky’s art served as a breath of fresh air in the totalitarian state stifled by the ideological control and hypocrisy, and helped Russian people to sustain their human dignity and cultural distinctiveness. Vysotsky was one of those artistic personalities who become a living conscience of the entire nation.

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University of Central Lancashire
Preston