You can’t really imagine an Oriental Studies fellowship without museums and archives. Here, they’re not part of the cultural program — they are the learning environment. History becomes something you engage with directly: through sources, artifacts, and real research context.
So where have our fellows already been?
Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts
An archive where documents don’t just sit in storage. Diplomatic correspondence, decrees, traces of entire eras — all helping piece together how states, cultures, and ideas once interacted.
Russian State Library
One of the largest libraries in the world, and a place where knowledge feels tangible. Here, participants worked with rare collections and research materials.
Oriental Museum
A space where meaning is built visually. Through art, symbols, and material culture, fellows explored how ideas are encoded, reinterpreted, and carried across time.
No “tourist mode.” Just full immersion into the field.
The InteRussia Fellowship in Oriental Studies is implemented by Mezhdunarodniki Autonomous Non-Profit Organisation in cooperation with the Gorchakov Fund and the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences with grant support from the Presidential Grants Foundation.