Pieter Waterdrinker at Wigtown Book Festival
As the war with Ukraine rumbles on, what does the ordinary Russian on the street think? Has the nation changed for ever? Or is the current situation a “blip” in international relations? What happened to the post-Glasnost hopes and what might a post-Putin future look like? Timothy Phillips and Pieter Waterdrinker bring their specialist knowledge of Russia to bear on these questions in this special event.
About the speakers
Timothy Phillips grew up in Northern Ireland. He holds a doctorate in Russian from Oxford University and has written extensively on Russian and British history. His previous books include Beslan, about the tragic events around the school shooting in North Ossetia in 2004, and The Secret Twenties, about Soviet spies in Britain in the years after the First World War.
Pieter Waterdrinker is a Dutch novelist, foreign correspondent, and the author of The Long Song of Tchaikovsky Street: a Russian adventure who lived in St Petersburg with his Russian wife and three cats, until fleeing the country when Russia invaded Ukraine.
For more information and to book your ticket, please visit the event website here.