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Community
Invited to Learn about Catherine the Great of Russia on March 10
at 2:30 p.m. as part of Reinhardt College’s “Year of Eastern
Europe and Russia”
As part of
Reinhardt College’s Year of Eastern Europe and Russia, the
public is invited to hear Douglas Smith, resident scholar at the
University of Washington, School of International Studies,
present “Catherine the Great of Russia” on March 10 at 2:30
p.m., on the upper level of the Hill Freeman Library and Spruill
Learning Center. This event is offered to the public free of
charge.
Douglas
Smith is an award-winning historian and translator who studied
German and Russian at the University of Vermont and has a
doctorate in history from UCLA. Smith has taught and lectured
widely at universities in the United States, Britain, and Europe
and has appeared in documentaries for A&E TV and National
Geographic. In his book The Pearl: A True Tale of Forbidden
Love in Catherine the Great’s Russia, Smith writes, “few
European monarchs have enjoyed greater fascination than
Catherine the Great…[who is] simultaneously celebrated and
condemned in her own lifetime as either one of Russia’s greatest
rulers or as a corrupt and murderous usurper”.
Over the
past 25 years Smith has made many trips to Russia and was a
Russian guide on the U.S. State Department’s 1980s exhibition
“Information USA”. He also worked as a soviet affairs analyst
at Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty in Munich, Germany,
specializing in Russian nationalism and served as an interpreter
of the late President Reagan.
For more information
on the Year of Eastern Europe and Russia
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