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The "Bela Mati" exhibition began working in Bela-Crkva (Serbia), TASS reports. It is timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the arrival of Russian emirgants to Serbia after the October Revolution.
The exposition, located in the city museum, presents various items that are evidence of the rich Russian heritage preserved in these places - household items and art, icons, clothes. All these things belonged to Russian emigres.
Much space at the exhibition is devoted to the history of cadet corps and institutes of noble maidens. Many of them continued to work in Yugoslavia.
Almost 50,000 emigrants of the first wave settled in Yugoslavia. Among the refugees were students of several cadet corps and students of the Mariinsky Don Institute for Noble Maidens. Educational institutions were located in Bela Crkve, several thousand people were educated there.
A Russian cemetery also appeared in Bela-Crkva. Several hundred people are buried there. Among them are generals and chamberlains, actresses and scientists. The unnamed graves of Russian prisoners of war from the First World War have survived to this day.
Russkiy Mir
