Russianist

But you were already in some sense a Russianist weren't you?

BBC Radio 3 Literary Proms: Archbishop on Dostoevsky 2008

Well not a Russianist; I'd got enthralled by Russia – Russian folklore, Russian film, watching Eisenstein on television in my teens, Russian music – so it was all part of that world.

BBC Radio 3 Literary Proms: Archbishop on Dostoevsky 2008

I'm a Russianist and usually bad Russian/Slavic elements will cause me to put a book down immediately.

Foer and Strauss Michael Allen 2005