[1] It continues to host a programme of Russian literature, poetry, art, cinema, music, theatre and dance, history, philosophy and current affairs.

With a small group of family and friends she bought 24 Kensington Park Gardens, Notting Hill, as a house for students and academics of all nationalities.

The establishment of the original Pushkin House coincided with the immediate post-Stalin years and the "Khrushchev Thaw", when interest in things Russian was intense.

In 1955, Tamara Karsavina spoke of her life in ballet; the following year Edward Crankshaw talked of the Soviet Union in the aftermath of the 20th Party Congress.

Soviet writers brought to the UK by the British Council would often come and talk at the Pushkin Club; they included Konstantin Fedin and Alexander Tvardovsky in 1960.

In pursuit of these aims, it has developed a cultural programme relating to Russian literature, art, film, music, theatre and dance, as well as history, philosophy and politics.

[7] The Pushkin House Book Prize was launched in 2013 with an aim to "encourage public understanding and intelligent debate about the Russian-speaking world".