University of Insubria, Como, Italy, paola.bocale@uninsubria.it
In Italy, the field of Russian Studies is more than a century old, and has seen the number of university Russian departments increase from just a couple in the early twenties to about forty today. The origins of Italy's interest in Russian language and culture are rooted in the early 20th century, when Italian-Russian relations underwent an important evolution at the economic, political and cultural level. A fundamental role in the promotion and dissemination of Russian Studies in Italy was played by Ettore Lo Gatto, who taught Russian at the University of Rome, and in 1920 founded the journal Rossia, which provided extensive information about the Russian language and literature. A boom in teaching Russian, especially at university level, was witnessed in the 1960s. Today, Russian is taught in 112 public secondary schools, and 36 public universities.
Russian language studies in Italy; Italian Russianists; Italian Russian cultural relations; Russian Studies in the contemporary world
Download textFor citing: Bocale, P. (2021). Russian Studies in Italy. Ethnopsycholinguistics. Moscow: INION RAN. Vol. 4(7), pp. 18-27. DOI: 10.31249/epl/2021.04.02