Education
Khrushcheva received a degree from Moscow State University with a major in Russian in 1987 and a Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative Literature from Princeton University in 1998.
Khrushcheva received a degree from Moscow State University with a major in Russian in 1987 and a Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative Literature from Princeton University in 1998.
Khrushcheva is the granddaughter of Leonid Khrushchev, eldest son of former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. When Leonid died in World World War II, Nikita adopted Leonid"s two-year-old daughter Julia, Nina"s mother. Nikita Khrushchev is thus Nina Khrushcheva"s biological great-grandfather, but adoptive grandfather.
Khrushcheva"s father, Lev Petrov, died in 1970, aged 47.
She is the author of Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics and The Lost Khrushchev: A Journey into the Gulag of the Russian Mind, and member of Council on Foreign Relations.
