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We cannot allow the tragedy of the Russian emigration to be erased from the memory of the next generations, Russian President Vladimir Putin is convinced. In his opinion, we should not repeat the mistakes that led to it, TASS reports.
The head of state said this during a visit to Alexander Solzhenitsyn House of Russia Abroad. He examined the exhibition dedicated to the history of the first wave of immigrants who were forced to leave their homeland after the October Revolution. He also met with Natalia Solzhenitsyna, who headed the Solzhenitsyn Public Fund.
Putin, accompanied by Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin and Natalia Solzhenitsyna, examined the emigrants’ belongings presented to the museum by their descendants from all over the world - from Australia to Bolivia, from the United States to Japan.
The guests were shown a carpet with a portrait of Solzhenitsyn, presented to the writer's widow by the famous artist Tahir Salahov. The belongings of the imperial family and the order of Russian officers brought to Russia last year by the President of Paraguay, Mario Abdo Benitez.
The writer's widow told the head of state about how the work on The Red Wheel multivolume epic that was going.
The president noted that Russian emigrants never lost their spiritual connection with their abandoned homeland. He expressed gratitude to the organizers of the museum for their work on creating "a wonderful, interesting and instructive museum for contemporaries about the life of Russian emigration."
Russkiy Mir
