Olga Tabachnikova is Reader in Russian and the founding Director of the Vladimir Vysotsky Centre for Russian Studies at the University of Central Lancashire (Preston, England). She has published widely on Russian cultural and literary history, with a special focus on Russian cultural continuity and history of ideas. She is the author of Russian Irrationalism from Pushkin to Brodsky: Seven Essays in Literature and Thought (2015), the editor of Facets of Russian Irrationalism between Art and Life: Mystery inside Enigma (2016) and Anton Chekhov through the Eyes of Russian Thinkers: Vasilii Rozanov, Dmitrii Merezhkovskii and Lev Shestov (2010), and co-editor of several scholarly volumes. Olga is also a poetry translator and an award-winning poet, with two books of poetry published in Russian.