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"At the risk of sounding like a total cliché, I think Vladimir is the complete package of what we need at this time," outgoing director Brad Shinkle said. 

Von Tsurikov, 44, is the museum's first Russian-speaking director. His ancestors include the commander-in-chief of the Russian army, credited with defeating Napoleon in 1812. His grandfather, an officer in Russia's White Army, left Russia after the 1917 revolution and settled the family in Germany, where Von Tsurikov grew up. 

excerpted from this article from Tmora.org

My grandparents emigrated from Russia after the Civil War, fleeing from persecution. As a result, I grew up speaking Russian at home, and my parents tried their best to pass on cultural traditions to their children. Growing up in Germany made it difficult to preserve an active interest in our historical heritage; however, learning about the past, including my parents’ stories about family friends such as Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, certainly sparked my interest. It led me to devote a significant part of my life to research this family history, filled with stories of generals, poets, philosophers, princes and peasants, Decembrists and White Army officers. Still, the single greatest influence in my life that inspired me most in connecting with this heritage was Dostoevsky; reading his novels has cemented a life-long love for appreciation of Russian culture in its different manifestations. 

excerpted from this article from pollenmidwest.org

Sauna Talk is pleased to welcome Vladimir von Tsurikov. Director of The Museum of Russian Art (TMORA) in Minneapolis, MN.

Vladimir has brought with him a passion for the advancement of Russian Art and Culture, and a strong record of international collaboration.  Over the last ten years he co-organized and co-curated several exhibitions with Russian institutions in Moscow, Saint Petersburg and Yekaterinburg.  Vladimir has published numerous articles and presented dozens of lectures both in the U.S. and Russia. In addition to releasing two research volumes, he has edited five volumes of a scholarly series Readings in Russian Religious Culture and continues to serve on a number of editorial boards. Vladimir also serves on the boards of the Russian Historical Society in the U.S. and the Russian Nobility Association in America. Vladimir received his Ph.D. in Russian History from the Moscow Theological Academy in 2011, and an M.A. in Russian language and literature in 2000 from Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT.

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Curators are now tracking down scattered imperial possessions. More material has recently surfaced from palaces and even the Romanov family’s assassination site at Yekaterinburg, Russia.

At the Columbia conference Vladimir von Tsurikov, the director of the Foundation of Russian History at Holy Trinity Monastery and Orthodox Seminary in Jordanville, N.Y., showed an image of a pearl-and-diamond earring rescued in 1918 from the crime scene. It belonged to Czarina Alexandra. It was long kept at the Russian Orthodox Church on Park Avenue at 93rd Street, and a few weeks ago it was turned over to the foundation.

Just one earring was retrieved from the evidence trail of carnage in the woods.

“The match was never found,” Mr. von Tsurikov said in a phone interview. The Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis plans to borrow the earring for an exhibition opening in November, “The Romanov Dynasty: Riches, Ruin and Resurrection.”

excerpted from this article from the New York Times