According to Russian Spiritual Cultural Center, anniversary of the Great October Revolution is to become the main topic of the coming week in Paris. Several activities are dedicated to this tremendous event of the last century, TASS reports.
The October Lessons scientific conference starts at Quay Branley. Loud names of the world scientists are included into the list of participants, such as Helene Carrere D’Encausse heading the French Academy of Sciences, director of Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yuri Petrov and the other scientists from Russia and France as well as writers, public figures and cultural activists. They are going to discuss impact of revolution on further destiny of Russia and the whole world from political, economic and cultural points of view.
History Uncensored exhibition is prepared by the conference by the writer Sergey Vengerov. The author hopes that this exhibition will help to trace down events of October 1917. Posters and bills of that period are among the exhibited items.
Besides, Bishop Nestor of Korsun is going to lead the burial service in commemoration of the Revolution victims.
Another scientific conference is to take place in the Higher School of Social Sciences in France. Unique historical documents stored in the French archives will be exhibited in the House for the disabled.
An important part of the history of that period is a fate of people forced to leave the country after the Revolution. The researchers state that more than two hundred Russian migrants fled to France after 1917. Biographies of Russian expats will be reflected at the two conferences as well.
Russkiy Mir
