Based on the new archival documents and literature in English, the paper presents the biography of Mikhail Sergeevich Smirnov, representative of the Russian diaspora in Yugoslavia and researcher of a ...new branch of international law, which began to develop in 1957 with the launch of the fi rst artifi cial Earth satellite. He was a secondgeneration Russian refugee, who was forced to leave his homeland as a little boy. He settled in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes / Kingdom of Yugoslavia alongside his family. He graduated from Law School in the state capital, Belgrade, then from Paris Law School, where he obtained his doctorate, and then from Paris Law School’s Institute for Higher International Sciences. After the launch of the fi rst satellite in 1957, Mikhail Smirnov, an aviation law expert, started paying more attention to the new aspects of aviation law associated with space exploration: he spoke at a number of international meetings of specialists in this fi eld of law. His works were published in domestic and international journals and his papers were cited by many authors. The scientist became a member of the International Astronautical Academy, the International Astronautical Federation, and the first president of the International Institute of Space Law. Smirnov was even a Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts corresponding member candidate. Nevertheless, he was almost completely forgotten in Serbia.
The paper examines the attitudes of monarchist Russian émigrés towards pro-Soviet tendencies in a refugee setting through the case of discovering the plans to establish a communist party in the First ...Russian Cadet Corps “Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich” in the town of Bela Crkva in 1934. The investigation, subsequent hearings and sentences handed down to the cadets reveal the attitudes and ideas typical of this community in the interwar period, which would influence the political and ideological positioning of Russian émigrés in the Second World War.
Based on archival sources, memoirs, and the press, the article analyzes the shifts in the Yugoslav politics of memory on the military operations that led to the country’s liberation in 1944 and the ...contribution of the Red Army to that process. The object of the analysis are newspaper articles, speeches by state ofϐicials, and memorial architecture.
Based on documents from Russian and Serbian archives, postwar press and literature, this article analyses the involvement of the Soviet military command in memorial construction – building monuments, ...memorials and cemeteries for the Soviet soldiers who fell in Serbia; and its involvement in the postwar funerary rituals from the autumn of 1944 through the end of 1945. It showcases the importance of the Soviet factor in commemorative practice soon after the end of the military operations.
Based on documents from Russian and Serbian archives, newspapers from the interwar period and relevant literature, the article deals with the import and broadcasting of Soviet films in the Kingdom of ...SHS/Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Despite the official government policy that had withheld official diplomatic recognition of the Soviet Union until 1940, the import of films from a socialist state demonstrated that some form of trade and cultural relations between the two countries did exist.
Based on unpublished (archival materials) and published sources (records and memoirs), as well as literature, the article shows the efforts of Nataliia Kornelievna Erdeli, graduate of the Smolny ...Institute for Noble Maidens in Saint Petersburg, aimed at reviving this women’s school abroad, in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (from 1929 — Kingdom of Yugoslavia) in the town of Velika Kikinda (in northern part of Serbia). After leaving Russia in 1920, this young, talented and energetic woman realized the need to create conditions for children who were forced to leave their homeland to receive an education. And Erdeli vigorously set to work: in 1921, after receiving permission and funds from the authorities of the country to open a school, which, at the suggestion of the Ministry of Education of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, was to be called the “First Russian-Serbian Girls’ Gymnasium-Boarding School”, she founded an educational institution for girls that resembled Smolny and then became its headmistress. Despite the institution’s official name, students were inculcated with Smolny traditions, such as wearing uniforms and following the rules of this institution. In order to obtain permission to name the school “Second Smolny”, Erdeli went to Denmark in 1924 to see the Empress Maria Feodorovna, a former patroness of the Smolny Institute. Although she managed to achieve this, an unexpected death prevented the formal renaming. Erdeli died in 1925 at the age of thirty-six. Nonetheless, it was not before 1931 that the authorities closed the school. Overall, more than 160 girls graduated from it.
The paper examines the attitudes of monarchist Russian émigrés towards pro-Soviet tendencies in a refugee setting through the case of discovering the plans to establish a communist party in the First ...Russian Cadet Corps “Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich” in the town of Bela Crkva in 1934. The investigation, subsequent hearings and sentences handed down to the cadets reveal the attitudes and ideas typical of this community in the interwar period, which would influence the political and ideological positioning of Russian émigrés in the Second World War.
U članku se na osnovu arhivske građe, memoara i literature analizira sudbina nasleđa ruske emigracije u Jugoslaviji (muzeja, biblioteka, arhiva, školskih i zdravstvenih ustanova, kao i grobnih ...kompleksa) u periodu od 1944. do 1945. godine – po prelasku Crvene armije granica predratne Jugoslavije, oslobodilačkih operacija i dolaska na vlast Komunističke partije Jugoslavije. Ukazuje se na nejednoznačnost odnosa prema nasleđu ruske emigracije i različitu praksu.
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