Michal Racyn, born in Ukraine, has lived since 2004 in Brno with his parents. He is a 2022 Fulbright scholar at Columbia University and a PhD student of the Department of Slavonic Studies at Masaryk University. His research focuses on the intellectual history of Russian emigration during the Cold War. Its main objective is to analyze the reception and transformation of Eurasianist ideology and philosophy within the intellectual environment of Soviet and US academia. His research is primarily based on the analysis of archival materials located in Prague (Slavonic Library), Saint Petersburg (Anna Akhmatova Museum), and New York (Columbia University, Bakhmeteff Archive).