Vladimir Von Tsurikov

A little about me…
I was born in the U.S. into a family of Russian emigres who fled the 1917 revolution, and raised in Germany. I received graduate degrees from Middleburg College (M.A.) and the Moscow Theological Academy (Ph.D.).

I am a researcher with extensive background in non-profit management, museum administration and curatorial affairs, archival cataloguing and preservation, publishing, public speaking, as well as teaching. I have had the honor of spearheading numerous archival exchanges with leading archives both in the U.S. and Russia and have initiated and organized various collaborative exhibitions with premier Russian museums, all in pursuit of inspiring cultural diplomacy.

My interests include cultural diplomacy, diasporic studies, Russian religious thought, US-Russia relations, as well as the last days of the Romanovs.

Meet Vladimir Von Tsurikov from Tmora.org

In October 2014 Vladimir von Tsurikov became Director of The Museum of Russian Art (TMORA) in Minneapolis, MN. He has brought with him a passion for the advancement of Russian Art and Culture, and a strong record of international collaboration.

Vladimir’s dedication to cultural collaboration allowed TMORA to become the first American museum in five years to host an exhibition co-organized by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. September 2015 saw the opening of Faces of War: Russia in World War I, which brought international participation from seven countries to TMORA and furthered the museum’s role in cultural diplomacy.

Previously, Vladimir served as Director of the Foundation of Russian History in upstate New York where he oversaw a number of groundbreaking initiatives. Among his accomplishments was a collaborative initiative with the State Archive of the Russian Federation, allowing archival and cultural collections to be viewed and used outside of their original repositories. As a result, rare archival collections were exchanged in microfilm, leading to renewed research both in Russia and the U.S.

Vladimir Von Tsurikov