Welcome Back Dr. Alexi Kraikovski

Old Dominion University's History Department along with the College of Arts & Letters and the M-Collaborative welcomes back Dr. Alexi Kraikovski.

"Another Amsterdam - St. Petersburg and the Romanovs Maritime Project in the 18th Century"

Alexei Kraikovski, is a Research Fellow at the University of Genoa, Italy and a leading expert in the maritime history of Early Modern Russia. His publications cover the many aspects of Russian maritime, from marine harvesting of the 17th century White and Barents Sea, to water mobility of the 18th century, up to
St. Petersburg and the "touristic consumption" of its maritime past in the 21st century. His expertise includes a variety of issues. He studied the numerous links between the economic, social, and cultural life of Early Modern Russia as well as the governmental plans of transformation of the landlocked country into the maritime power of that period.

Therefore, his major focus is the history of St. Petersburg as a maritime metropolis.