Сорокина Марина Юрьевна

In recent decades, the ideology, practices and fate of Russian White émigrés — participants in the Resistance movement during the Second World War have attracted the attention of researchers. This study deals with Russian émigré returnees — heroes of the European Resistance movement. The article is based on documents from the collection of the Alexander Solzhenitsyn House of Russia Abroad, in particular from personal archives, containing unique information both about the French émigré period of the founders’ lives and about their arrangement in Soviet life after returning to the USSR. Thus, the article publishes the part of the correspondence between one of the founders of the Union of Soviet Patriots in Belgrade, the outstanding Slavic scholar I.N. Golenishchev-Kutuzov, who lived in Moscow after the war, and his friend, a participant in the Resistance movement in France, the poet Yuri Bek-Sofiev, who lived in Kazakhstan (Alma-Ata, now Almaty) after returning to the USSR. The documents helped to reconstruct some episodes from the lives of the resistance-returnees, related to their activities in the new conditions. The literary and artistic collection In Foreign Lands is considered as one of the channels of communication of former compatriots. The collection includes literary works of representatives of the white emigration who dreamed of returning to their homeland

The article analyzes the factors influencing the research of the topic of participation of Russian emigrants settled in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in the Resistance movement. On the basis of the documents of the Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Empire of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia for the first time we present the “voices” of the leaders of the Union of Soviet Patriots in Belgrade (Yugoslavia) synchronized with the events of October-November 1944, which allow us to study their views on the tactics and strategy of the Union in the conditions of the de-occupation of Yugoslavia, including the interaction with the new Yugoslav authorities and white Russian emigration. The fate of the leaders of the Union of Soviet Patriots in the postwar period is traced. © Сорокина М. Ю., 2024 43 РУССКИЕ ЭМИГРАНТЫ ЗА РУБЕЖОМ

The article describes the trajectories of the professional scientific fate of Russian refugee scientists after the October wave, who manifested themselves in Croatia and © Сорокина М. Ю., 2024 63 РУССКИЕ ЭМИГРАНТЫ ЗА РУБЕЖОМ whose integration into the local scientific community led to professional success. The issue of personal contacts between scientists, primarily Slavists, who became key intermediaries and communicators between the power elites, peoples and scientific communities of both countries, is being considered, as a result of which cultural and scientific ties between Croatia and Russia have become especially close since the second half of the XIX century. Attention is focused on the fact that one of the most important tools of interaction between scientists was teaching at universities and election to local academies of sciences

The article introduces foe the first time the documents from the archival collection of the Alexander Solzhenitsyn House of Russia Abroad. It examines the charitable activities of Elim Pavlovich Demidov and Sofia Illarionovna Demidova on rendering comprehensive moral and financial support to Russian students — refugees of the Russian Revolution and the Civil War, who found themselves in Europe (Belgium, Greece, and France) in the 1920—1930s

The article analyzes the construction of the image of a Russian emigrant — a foreign compatriot — a hero of the resistance movement during the Second World War in the post-Stalin period. During this period, such artistic practices as literature, cinema, etc., acted as Soviet institutions of memory, broadcasting the new agenda of the Soviet state, which included former white emigrants — foreign compatriots in the pantheon of Soviet heroes. Particular attention is paid to the events of 1965, the year of the 20th anniversary of the Great Victory, which was a milestone both for the Soviet policy of memory and for the relationship between the Soviet government, society and foreign compatriots in general. The coming to power of a new generation of leaders of the USSR — former front-line soldiers was accompanied by the return of Victory Day (May 9) to the status of a national holiday in the USSR, and the memory of the war began to act as a national symbolic resource, including the memory of Russian emigrants — members of the Resistance movement. However, “trial” broadcast through artistic practices designed by the mid 1960s. The image of an emigrant — a hero of the European Resistance as a young Russian man of noble origin showed his ambivalence in a socialist society and for a long time he was not in demand by Soviet society and artistic practices, remaining mainly in the international sphere