A specialist in the diplomatic relations of the United States and Russia in the early 19th century, she is the author of The Diplomatic Mission of J. Q. Adams in Russia, 1809-1814, published in Russian in 2007. To pursue further research in early U.S.-Russian relations, she held a Fulbright Fellowship at the MHS during the autumn of 2007. Upon her return to Russia, she was named coordinator at her university’s Russian-American Center for American Studies.