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Through Folio, we bring people together over written and spoken word as a way to understand the world around us

Operating in formats ranging from intimate, informal gatherings to conversations with world-renowned academics and authors, and the annual Pushkin House Book Prize, Folio provides direct access to expert research, exploration and critical inquiry, building a platform for reading to become an open-ended conversation, finding comfort with unanswerable questions and the productive tension of opposing ideas.

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Book Talk
Book Talk, online and in person
The Disappearing Act. Maria Stepanova in Conversation with Sasha Dugdale
Book Talk
Book Talk, in person
Libris with Liberov. Written for Sergei Dovlatov
Reading Group
Reading Group, online
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
Book Talk
Book Talk, online and in person
Troublesome Words: A Cultural History of Russian. Simon Franklin in Conversation with Ekaterina Schulmann
Talk
Talk, online and in person
The Pushkin Club: Trump, Putin and the New Age of Conquest. Luke Harding in Conversation with Masha Karp
Reading Group
Reading Group, in person
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
Award Ceremony
Award Ceremony, in person
Pushkin House Book Prize 2026 Award Ceremony
Talk
Talk, in person
The Future That Never Came: The Making of Modern Russia
Talk
Talk, in person
Hidden Histories: AIDS, Activism, and Hope in Soviet Russia
Talk
Talk, in person
Women, Conflict, Justice. The Fight for Human Rights in Chechnya and Beyond
Talk
Talk, in person
Russia’s Forests: Life and Culture Among the Trees
Screening
Screening, in person
Screening of “The Man Who Was Too Free”
Reading Group in Russian
Reading Group in Russian, in person
«Жизнь и судьба» Василия Гроссмана
Socials
Socials, in person
Playing the Game with Alena Ledeneva: Social at Pushkin House
Reading Group
Reading Group, online
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
Reading Group
Reading Group, in person
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
Reading Group in Russian
Reading Group in Russian, in person
«День опричника» Владимира Сорокина
Book Talk
Book Talk, in person
Libris with Liberov. Pictures at an Exhibition: Poems and Comics. Part 1
Reading Group
Reading Group, online
Day of the Oprichnik by Vladimir Sorokin
Reading Group
Reading Group, in person
Day of the Oprichnik by Vladimir Sorokin
Book Talk
Book Talk, in person
Libris with Liberov. Russians in England
Reading Group in Russian
Reading Group in Russian, in person
«Фокус» Марии Степановой
Book Talk
Book Talk, online and in person
Alphabet Soup: Literature and Life Across Languages. An Evening with Eugene Ostashevsky
Book Talk
Book Talk, online and in person
The Oak and the Larch: A Forest History of Russia and its Empires. Sophie Pinkham in Conversation with Tom Parfitt
Reading Group
Reading Group, online
The Disappearing Act by Maria Stepanova
Book Talk
Book Talk, online and in person
On Thin Ice: An Explorer's Memoir of Siberia, Surveillance and Survival. Charlie Walker in Conversation with Joe Luc Barnes
Book Talk
Book Talk, in person
Cold War Farce, Exile and Empire: Revisiting The Mushroom Picker. Zinovy Zinik in Conversation with Andrei Zorin
Reading Group
Reading Group, in person
The Disappearing Act by Maria Stepanova
Book Talk
Book Talk, online and in person
The Dark Side of the Earth: Lives, Choices, and the End of the Soviet Union. Mikhail Zygar in conversation with Arkady Ostrovsky
Book Talk
Book Talk, online and in person
The Fate of a Radical Princess: The Many Lives of Vera Gedroits. Miranda Seymour in Conversation with Catherine Merridale
Book Talk
Book Talk, in person
Libris with Liberov. On a poem by Vladislav Khodasevich
Reading Group
Reading Group, online
Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov, edited by Robert Chandler
Reading Group
Reading Group, in person
Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov, edited by Robert Chandler
Book Talk
Book Talk, in person
Libris with Liberov. To Joseph Brodsky
Book Talk
Book Talk, in person
Rasputin and the Downfall of the Romanovs. Antony Beevor in Conversation with Vladimir Raevskiy
Reading Group
Reading Group, online
The Story of Sonechka by Marina Tsvetaeva
Reading Group
Reading Group, in person
The Story of Sonechka by Marina Tsvetaeva
Talk
Talk, in person
Libris with Liberov. 13 Poems in My Life
Reading Group
Reading Group, online
The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich
Book Talk
Book Talk, in person
Speculative Fiction as New Literary Mainstream. Yana Moskalenko in conversation with Elena Timokhina
Reading Group
Reading Group, in person
The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich
Book Talk
Book Talk, online and in person
"Russia – The Country That Wants to Be Different”: Gijs Kessler in conversation with Olga Bychkova
Book Talk
Book Talk, online and in person
Resistance, Renewal, Survival. Paths of Post-Soviet Independence. A Conversation with Joe Luc Barnes and Thomas de Waal
Talk
Talk, in person
Libris with Liberov. In search of Daniil Kharms
Reading Group
Reading Group, online
A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
Book Talk
Book Talk, online and in person
“The Successor”: Mikhail Fishman in Conversation with Arkady Ostrovsky
Reading Group
Reading Group, in person
A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
Book Talk
Book Talk, in person
«Eclipse»: The Women’s Movement, Science and Prejudices in early 20th century Russia. A conversation with Anna Rusinova
Talk
Talk, in person
Libris with Liberov. When Poetry Becomes Destiny: Osip Mandelstam
Talk
Talk, online and in person
Anton Chekhov. Earliest stories: How a Great Writer Started Out. A talk with Rosamund Bartlett and Elena Michajlowska, followed by staged readings
Talk
Talk, online and in person
Silence, Song and Spirit: Translating Indigenous Literature from the Russian North
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Reading Group
Reading Group, online
Hard To Be a God by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky
Reading Group
Reading Group, in person
Hard To Be a God by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky
Reading Group
Reading Group, online
The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol
Reading Group
Reading Group, in person
The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol
Reading Group
Reading Group, online
The Body of the Soul: Stories by Ludmila Ulitskaya
Talk
Talk, online and in person
Silk Mirage: Through the Looking Glass in Uzbekistan. A Conversation with Joanna Lillis and Ibrat Safo
Book Talk
Book Talk, in person
Number Twenty-Six (Двадцать шестой): Growing Up in a Time of Change. A Talk with author Maria Danilova
Book Talk
Book Talk, online and in person
Political Girl: Life and Fate in Russia with Maria Alyokhina
Reading Group
Reading Group, in person
The Body of the Soul: Stories by Ludmila Ulitskaya
Book Talk
Book Talk, online and in person
The Russian Daughter of an English Writer (Русская дочь английского писателя): Self and Other – Identity at the Crossroads of Cultures. A talk with author Ksenia Golubovich
Book Talk
Book Talk, online and in person
Exodus-22: Linor Goralik in Conversation with Yasha Klots
Book Talk
Book Talk, online and in person
We Computers: Poetry, AI and Authorship. A Conversation with Hamid Ismailov and Anna Aslanyan
Talk
Talk, in person
Не Закрывай Глаза (Don't Close Your Eyes): Witnessing unseen. Olesya Gerasimenko in conversation with Sergey Goryashko
Reading Group
Reading Group, online
Everything Flows by Vasily Grossman
Podcast Recording
Podcast Recording, in person
Закладка: A public recording of the literary podcast with Ekaterina Schulmann and Galina Yuzefovich
Reading Group
Reading Group, in person
Everything Flows by Vasily Grossman
Talk
Talk, online and in person
Moscow Underground: Digging into History with Catherine Merridale and Boris Akunin
Reading Group
Reading Group, online
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Reading Group
Reading Group, in person
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Talk
Talk, online and in person
The Outbreak – An Unknown History of HIV in the USSR: A Talk with Authors Irina Roldugina and Katerina Suverina
Reading Group
Reading Group, online
Three Apples Fell from the Sky by Narine Abgaryan
Reading Group
Reading Group, in person
Three Apples Fell From the Sky by Narine Abgaryan
Talk
Talk, in person
Condemned To All That Fate Assigns: A Talk with Roma Liberov on the First Wave of Russian Emigrant Poets
Talk
Talk, online and in person
Our Dear Friends in Moscow: The Inside Story of a Broken Generation. A Conversation with Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov
Reading Group
Reading Group, in person
Nadezhda in the Dark by Yelena Moskovich
Reading
Reading, in person
Disappearing Act: Reading by Alisa Khazanova in the presence of the author Maria Stepanova
Reading
Reading, in person
Disappearing Act: Reading by Alisa Khazanova in the presence of the author Maria Stepanova, followed by Q&A
Reading Group
Reading Group, online
A Double Life by Karolina Pavlova (trans. Barbara Heldt)
Talk
Talk, online and in person
The Pushkin Club: The Russian Substratum of "Lolita" (On Vladimir Nabokov’s Bilingualism). A Talk by Alexander Dolinin
Reading Group
Reading Group, in person
A Double Life by Karolina Pavlova (trans. Barbara Held)
Reading Group
Reading Group, online
The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Talk
Talk, in person
Dreamers vs. Cosmonauts, a talk with Evgeny Feldman
Talk
Talk, online and in person
Seeds, Suites and Soviets: The Voices behind History with Maurice Casey and Simon Parkin
Reading Group
Reading Group, in person
The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Talk
Talk, online and in person
Russian-Language War Poetry: Three Years Later
Talk
Talk, online and in person
Language, Food and Memory: Jewish Heritage and Identity from Odesa to Siberia and beyond
Reading Group
Reading Group, online
Wound by Oksana Vasyakina (trans. Elina Alter)
Book Launch
Book Launch, online and in person
Pushkin House x Echo: Sergey Aleksashenko's Book launch
Reading Group
Reading Group, in person
Wound by Oksana Vasyakina (trans. Elina Alter)
Reading Group
Reading Group, online
The Spectre of Alexander Wolf by Gaito Gazdanov (trans. Bryan Karetnyk)
Reading Group
Reading Group, in person
The Spectre of Alexander Wolf - Gaito Gazdanov ( trans. Bryan Karetnyk)
Reading Group
Reading Group, online
My Armenian Friend – Andreï Makine (trans. Geoffrey Strachan), Online
Reading Group
Reading Group, in person
My Armenian Friend – Andreï Makine (trans. Geoffrey Strachan)
Talk
Talk, online and in person
Revolutionary aspects of radical tenderness. A conversation with Alla Gutnikova
Book Launch
Book Launch, online and in person
Zero Sum: International Business in Russia. Charles Hecker in Conversation with Dasha Afanasieva
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Reading Group
Reading Group, online
Anna Akhmatova's 'Requiem' at Home and Abroad, Online
Reading Group
Reading Group, in person
Anna Akhmatova's 'Requiem' at Home and Abroad
Discussion
Discussion, online and in person
Tamizdat: Banned Books of the (Cold) War Era
Discussion
Discussion, online and in person
Prigozhin, Putin and the Future of Russia: A Conversation with Anna Arutunyan and Mark Galeotti
Reading Group
Reading Group, online
Red Crosses by Sasha Filipenko, Online
Reading Group
Reading Group, in person
Red Crosses by Sasha Filipenko
Book Launch
Book Launch, online and in person
Birds, Beasts and a World Made New: Robert Chandler Presents Apollinaire and Khlebnikov
Reading Group
Reading Group, online
I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country by Elena Kostyuchenko, Online
Reading Group
Reading Group, in person
I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country by Elena Kostyuchenko
Book Launch
Book Launch, online and in person
The First Cold War: Anglo-Russian Relations in the 19th Century. A Conversation with Barbara Emerson and Deborah Bronnert
Reading Group
Reading Group, online
Sofia Petrovna by Lydia Chukovskaya, Online
Reading Group
Reading Group, in person
Sofia Petrovna by Lydia Chukovskaya
Talk
Talk, online and in person
The Avant-Gardists: Artists in Revolt. Sjeng Scheijen in Conversation with Pushkin House Director, Elena Sudakova
Reading Group
Reading Group, online
Kolyma Stories by Varlam Shalamov, Online
Reading Group
Reading Group, in person
Kolyma Stories by Varlam Shalamov
Book Launch
Book Launch, online and in person
The Pushkin Club: Robert Chandler Presents Teffi’s “And Time Was No More”
Reading Group
Reading Group, online
Of Sunshine and Bedbugs by Isaac Babel, Online
Talk
Talk, online and in person
"Between Dog and Wolf": Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry in Conversation with Polly Jones
Reading Group
Reading Group, in person
Of Sunshine and Bedbugs by Isaac Babel
Discussion
Discussion, online and in person
Russian Food Since 1800: Catriona Kelly in Conversation with Alissa Timoshkina
Reading Group
Reading Group, online
Between Dog and Wolf by Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry, Online
Reading Group
Reading Group, in person
Between Dog and Wolf by Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry
Book Launch
Book Launch, online and in person
Eccentrism Turns 100: The Factory of the Eccentric Actor
Reading Group
Reading Group, online
The Life of Insects by Victor Pelevin, Online
Reading Group
Reading Group, in person
The Life of Insects by Victor Pelevin
Reading Group
Reading Group, online
Kolyma Stories by Varlam Shalamov, Online
Reading Group
Reading Group, in person
Kolyma Stories by Varlam Shalamov
Reading Group
Reading Group, online
Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov, Online
Presentation
Presentation, online and in person
"Hybrid Warriors", Anna Arutunyan in Conversation with Mark Galeotti
Reading Group
Reading Group, in person
Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov
Reading Group
Reading Group, online
Contemporary Georgian Fiction, Online
Reading Group
Reading Group, in person
Contemporary Georgian Fiction
Talk
Talk, online
Hamid Ismailov in Conversation with Natasha Rulyova
Reading Group
Reading Group, online
Soviet Milk by Nora Ikstena, Online
Reading Group
Reading Group, in person
Soviet Milk by Nora Ikstena
Talk
Talk, online and in person
Jade McGlynn, “Memory Makers”. In Conversation with Vladimir Raevskiy
Reading Group
Reading Group, online
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, Online
Reading Group
Reading Group, in person
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Reading Group
Reading Group, online
Jamilia by Chingiz Aïtmatov, Online
Reading Group
Reading Group, in person
Jamilia by Chingiz Aïtmatov
Talk
Talk, online
Alisa Ganieva in Conversation with Natasha Rulyova
Talk
Talk, online and in person
Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, "The Afterlife of the 'Soviet Man'". In Conversation with Svetlana Stephenson
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Talk
Talk, online
Guzel Yakhina, The Author Of “Zuleikha”, In Conversation With Natasha Rulyova
Reading Group
Reading Group, online
The Railway by Hamid Ismailov, Online
Presentation
Presentation, in person
The Pushkin Club: Pushkin’s Poetry – His Views On Politics And Society
Reading Group
Reading Group, in person
The Railway by Hamid Ismailov
Talk
Talk, in person
The Pushkin Club: Alan Philps, "The Red Hotel"
Talk
Talk, in person
Harriet Crawley, "The Translator". In Conversation With Sir Rodric Braithwaite
Reading Group
Reading Group, online
The Mountain and the Wall by Alisa Ganieva, Online
Talk
Talk, in person
The Multiethnic Soviet Union And Its Demise: Brigid O'Keeffe In Conversation With Natalya Chernyshova
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Reading Group
Reading Group, in person
The Mountain and the Wall by Alisa Ganieva
Talk
Talk, in person
Kilometer 101: Maxim Osipov In Conversation With Robert Chandler
Reading Group
Reading Group, online
Zuleikha by Guzel Yakhina, Online
Reading Group
Reading Group, in person
Zuleikha by Guzel Yakhina
Reading Group
Reading Group, online
Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov, Online
Reading Group
Reading Group, in person
Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov
Reading Group
Reading Group, online
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, Online
Reading Group
Reading Group, in person
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
Reading Group
Reading Group, online
Living Pictures by Polina Barskova, Online
Reading Group
Reading Group, in person
Living Pictures by Polina Barskova
Reading Group
Reading Group, online
Pushkin Hills by Sergei Dovlatov, Online
Reading Group
Reading Group, in person
Pushkin Hills by Sergei Dovlatov
Reading Group
Reading Group, online
Deceit by Yuri Felsen, Online
Reading Group
Reading Group, in person
Deceit by Yuri Felsen
Book Launch
Book Launch, in person
Book Launch Of “Deceit” By Yuri Felsen, Translated By Bryan Karetnyk
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Reading Group
Reading Group, online
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Online
Reading Group
Reading Group, in person
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Reading Group
Reading Group, in person
Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea by Teffi
Reading Group
Reading Group, in person
Lucky Breaks by Yevgenia Belorusets
Reading Group
Reading Group, in person
Klotsvog by Margarita Khemlin
Reading Group
Reading Group, in person
The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol
Reading Group
Reading Group, in person
Fatal Eggs by Mikhail Bulgakov

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