ABSTRACT
The establishment of Russian studies in American universities took place in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The University of Chicago occupied an interesting position among the few centers of Russian studies in the United States before World War I. Hourwich recommended as a lecturer for teaching statistics in the department of political economy at the meeting of the Board of Trustees on April 25, 1893. Khesin in a wealthy Jewish family and graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of St. Petersburg University with a candidate's degree in 1890. Dole called on Harvard to become the first university in the United States to establish a department of Russian language and literature. American interest in Russia received substantial support from May to October 1893, during the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The Russian government supported Wolkonsky's lecture tour as an effective means of counter-propaganda against emigre insinuations and possibility of creating a positive image of Russia among Americans.
