Tatyana Voltskaya and the Desertion of Empire Pubblico
Goedemans, Marc (Spring 2025)
Abstract
Tatyana Voltskaya is an eminent Russian journalist, poet, and dissident, who, as of recently, has also been designated a “foreign agent” by the Russian government. As the latter, she has joined a famous public list of nearly 1,000 individuals and organizations deemed “undesirable” by the Russian government—a price she pays for the courage with which she has spent her life working to uncover truths where the state has attempted to bury it. While the notion of “foreign agency” is often discussed by literature in the fields of political science and law, this project seeks to humanize the experience of the dissident-turned-“foreign agent” using a compilation of first hand interviews and a collection of poetry made accessible before its formal publication by Voltskaya’s visit for a lecture at Emory University, and thereafter through an ongoing partnership, and friendship, with the author.
Table of Contents
Introduction 9
Family 11
Education of a Dissident 17
Career(s): In Prose and Poetry 21
War and ‘Foreign Agency’ 25
Conclusion 39
Interview Transcripts 40
Additional Poems 73
Bibliography 127
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