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Among them were Oliver John Golden and his wife Bertha Bialek, bringing with them a group of 16 African-American experts in the cultivation of cotton; well-known African-American poet Langston Hughes with a group of 22 filmmakers; Paul Robeson with his family; and many others.
DEDICATED TO LILY GOLDEN AND DIEUDONNE GNAMMANKOU. BY RUNOKO RASHIDI*. Born in Moscow on May 26, 1799 (several different birthdates have been offered), Alexandre Sergeivich Pushkin, the patriarch...
Afro-Russians, often known as Black Russians, are people of African heritage who settled in Russia many years ago. The Metis Foundation estimates that there were about 50,000 Afro-Russians in 2009. Even after Western European colonization of the continent, there was never a noticeable population of people of African heritage in Russia.
The most famous African-Russian is legendary poet Alexander Pushkin, who was the great-grandson of an African brought to St. Petersburg under Peter the Great in the early 18th century.
The first child of African-American parents ever born in the Soviet Union, Yosif Stalin Kim Roane, is among the few living offspring of those who traveled to the Soviet Union in the 1920s and...
Alexander Pushkin was an Afro-Russian poet, playwright, novelist, and social justice advocate. He was born in Moscow on May 26, 1799. He is one of Russia’s most famous poets. His Russian father and mother of Afrikan ancestry raised their mixed-race son in a life of nobility.
Lloyd Patterson (third row, second from the right) and colleagues head to Moscow. Courtesy of James L.Patterson. Patterson started working as an artist for the Soviet movie called Black and...
Khanga’s hardships with dating and finding acceptance as a Black woman in Russia and America illustrates important issues of sexuality, exotification, and belonging for people of color in the post-Soviet region.
Vladimir Alexandrov, professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University, uncovers a remarkable story of an American in turn-of-the-century Russia in his book “The Black Russian.”
A Soviet musical comedy, the film is about a white American woman who tries to integrate into Soviet culture, but carries the secret of having a Black child. At a conference Demikovsky attended, she noticed a book by Allison Blakely titled Russia and the Negro.
He was a Black Russian poet, the great-grandson of Abram Hannibal, a Black African general, and a friend of Peter the Great. As a child, Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin displayed a talent for writing poetry. In 1818, he was appointed to Russia's ministry of foreign affairs.
Abram Gannibal, Nancy Prince, and Ira Aldridge were Afro-Russians that left an indelible mark on the history of Russia's rich culture.
Notable Afro-Russians today include journalist Yelena Khanga, rapper Jacques Anthony (aka DXN BNLVDN) and Jean Gregoire Sagbo, the country’s first elected black official.
African-Americans in the Soviet Union and the Legacy of African-Russians Today. Chair: Marlene Laruelle, Director, Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies and Research Professor of International Affairs, GW
“Most black Russians that I met in Moscow and St Petersburg had also grown up without their fathers. Some had been fostered or grown up in children’s homes and had never met their mothers. But we all agreed that we felt Russian as well as African.”
Alexander Pushkin, the father of modern Russian literature, was in reality Black. His great-grandfather was actually an African slave, Abram Petrovich Gannibal, who later became a general to “Peter the Great”.
In a wildly popular speech on the occasion of the unveiling of the Pushkin monument in the center of Moscow, Dostoevsky heralded Pushkin as the exemplary Russian, a great "reconciler," who...
Alexander Pushkin is known as the quintessential Russian writer, but he took particular inspiration from his African great-grandfather, General Abraham Petrovitch Gannibal.
Abram Petrovich Gannibal is a maternal great-grandfather of the most all-time most famous black Russian – famed Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. The early black Russians were brought to the empire as exotic domestics but not slaves in the traditional sense as we know it.
In the 1800s, Africans and African Americans found prestige wealth, and freedom in an unlikely haven — Czarist Russia. Nancy Prince had to go to Russia to live out a classic American rags-to-riches story. A free black woman from Massachusetts, she struggled with racism and poverty.