Kristoffer Hellen

Kristoffer Hellén is a historian of Russia and a freelance English proofreader and translator. His award-winning research has focused on the ethnicity and religion among the Finno-Ugric and Turkic groups of Russia’s Volga-Ural region. Born in Alaska, raised in California, a Finnish citizen from a Swedish-speaking family, living in Estonia in a Russian-speaking city, Kristoffer is difficult to categorise, but considers himself a citizen of the world.

How an American historian came to call Narva home

Kristoffer Hellen / October 12, 2017

Estonians are surprised to find someone from Pärnu who lives in Narva, so you can imagine the mixture of surprise and suspicion with which someone all the way from the US who lives in Narva is greeted. One year ago I earned my master’s degree in Russian history at Indiana University and was not sure […]

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