Laura Sheahen

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Laura Sheahen divides her time between Maryland and Tunisia. She has degrees in Russian literature.

In the Baltics, a Conflicted Homage to Russia’s Great Poet: The Markučiai Manor Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania

November 2025
Laura Sheahen
Photo by Laura Sheahen “We’ve treated Pushkin rather well here. We haven’t torn down his statue,” remarks a teenage boy outside the Markučiai Manor Museum in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. In c…