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Elena Bobrova

Elena Bobrova

Elena Bobrova has graduated from the St Petersburg State University, specialising in the history of Russian and European culture. She started her journalism career as the research manager at In Your Pocket city guides in St Petersburg. Later she moved to Moscow to work as an editor at US division of Russia Beyond the Headlines. In 2016 she came back to St Petersburg and she now works as a freelance journalist and tour guide, doing bike tours and showing off-the- beaten paths of St Petersburg.

Pop and Culture May 18, 2017 June 17, 2017

The secret life of museum babushkas (gallery)

We examine the integral component of any museum in Russia—the experienced guardians of Russian art—“museum babushkas.” A few years ago, I came across the…

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