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 is a leading Russian political scientist whose research focuses on legislative institutions, bureaucracy, and policy-making in modern autocratic systems, particularly in Russia. Since relocating to Berlin in 2022, she has held a non-resident fellowship at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center and lectures in political science at Freie Universität Berlin's Osteuropa Institut. Schulmann is the author of several political science publications in Russian and a co-author of The New Autocracy: Information, Politics, and Policy in Putin’s Russia (Brookings Institution Press, 2018).