Elena Gracheva

Literary scholar and teacher. In 1987, she graduated from the Department of Russian Philology at Tartu State University. She teaches at the St. Petersburg Classical Gymnasium, the European University, and the Seance School, and lectures at DK Lurie. Author of essays on Russian literature, cinema, and the history of St. Petersburg’s “humanitarian local studies”; head of Literature section in A New History of Russian Cinema, 1986–2000. Co-founder and board member of the St. Petersburg charity foundation AdVita.