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Xenia Violet Howard-Johnston Dennen (11 March 1944) is an expert in Russian politics and culture and is the Chairman of the Keston Institute. She is the second child of Lady Alexandra Henrietta Louisa Haig, the eldest daughter of Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, from her marriage to Clarence Johnston.[1] After her parents marriage ended in divorce, her mother married the historian Hugh Trevor-Roper.
Xenia is an expert on Russian politics and culture including studies at the London School of Economics. In 1969, Xenia helped found the Keston Institute with Reverend Dr. Canon Michael Bourdeaux, Professor Leonard Schapiro, Professor Peter Reddaway, and Sir John Lawrence. Her work at the Keston Institute included making numerous trips into the Soviet Union before eventually being banned from the country. Then in 1973, she founded the academic journal Religion in Communist Lands, now Religion, State and Society. Xenia earned numerous honors for her work continues to actively contribute to scholarly work about religious life during the Soviet era and is the Chairman of the Keston Institute.[2]
She married Lyle Dennen in 1977 and they have 2 sons.