A historian tracing what the Leningrad Affair left unresolved
Kirill Boldovsky is a Russian historian of late Soviet and contemporary Russian political history. His work examines the Leningrad party apparatus before and after the Leningrad Affair alongside the history of the siege, distinguishing what surviving records establish from what remains unknown. By connecting institutional history with the politics of memory, he presents the affair not simply as a purge but as a conflict over party power, regional rule, and historical knowledge.
Career Timeline
- 1963Born in Leningrad
- 2011Graduated from the Faculty of History, Saint Petersburg State University
- 2014Defended a dissertation in contemporary Russian history
- 2018Published The Fall of the Blockade Secretaries
- 현재Senior researcher at the St. Petersburg Institute of History
- 현재Head of the History of the Siege of Leningrad laboratory