Ayn Rand’s Years in the Stoyunin Gymnasium

ANASTASIYA VASILIEVNA GRIGOROVSKAYA is a Doctor in Philology, an Associate Professor in the Department of Russian and Foreign Literature at Tyumen State University, and a specialist in Russian and foreign literature, especially in utopian studies. Her doctoral thesis, Ayn Randʼs Anthropological Utopia: The Interaction of Russian and American Tradition (2022), analyzes Randʼs philosophy and literary work as a complex combination of Russian and American national traditions. She is an author of the first Russian monograph on Rand’s connections with Russian literature and culture Ayn Rand’s Fiction in a Russian Context (2020; in Russian) and more than thirty essays about Rand’s art and philosophy (in Russian and in English). She has also lectured several times at the Ayn Rand Memorial Conference in Saint-Petersburg (2017, 2019, 2021). She received a grant from the European University in Saint-Petersburg for the project The Transformation of Ayn Randʼs Ideas of Objectivism (The Center of Modernization Studies, 2022). Her aim is to revive Rand’s reputation under today’s conditions of globalization and to promote future investigations of Rand’s Russian origins.