CSE Hosts Exhibition on Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot
The Center for the Study of Europe (CSE), an affiliated regional center at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, hosted an exhibition of illustrations at 121 Bay State Road marking the sesquicentennial of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s masterpiece The Idiot.
The exhibit, entitled “Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot Through Russian Eyes,” featured extensive collections of the V.I. Dahl State Museum of the History of Russian Literature in Moscow and the F.M. Dostoyevsky Literary-Memorial Museum in St. Petersburg.
CSE hosted an opening for the exhibition at 121 Bay State Road with remarks from Dmitry Bak, Director of the Russian State Literary Museum in Russia.
The exhibit was held as part of the XVII International Doesoevsky Symposium happening at Boston University and organized by World Languages and Literatures Associate Professor Yuri Corrigan. The exhibit of illustrations at 121 Bay State Road was organized by CSE Visiting Researcher and BU alumna Anna Winestein.
The mission of the Center for the Study of Europe is to promote understanding of Europe through its cultural heritage; its political, economic, and religious histories; its art, literature, music, and philosophy; as well as through its recent emergence as a new kind of international form through the European Union (EU). Operationally, the center provides a focal point and institutional support for the study of Europe across Boston University through coordination of teaching missions, support of research, community-building among faculty and students, and outreach beyond the University.