Vladimir Alexandrov (writer)

Vladimir Alexandrov is a Russian-American scholar and writer.[1] He grew up in New York City in a Russian emigre family. He studied geology at Queens College and The City College of New York, before switching to literature and the humanities. He obtained a PhD in comparative literature from Princeton. He taught in the Slavic departments at both Harvard and Yale. In 2004, he was named the B.E. Bensinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature at Yale, and he continued to teach and conduct research until his retirement in 2018.

He has written two noted works of history:

• The Black Russian, a biography of Frederick Bruce Thomas, which was nominated for the Pushkin Book Prize
• To Break Russia's Chains: Boris Savinkov and His Wars Against the Tsar and the Bolsheviks

He is married with two children, and lives in Hamden, Connecticut.