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Columbia University publishes records with memories of Russian emigrants

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Columbia University publishes records with memories of Russian emigrants


19.01.2022

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Recordings of interviews with Russian emigrants were made public by Columbia University in New York, according to the Bogoslov.ru website.

About 70 people who were forced to leave their homeland after 1917 told about the October Revolution and the Civil War. Among them are representatives of Russian culture, doctors, lawyers, engineers and many others. Among them are artist Yuri Annenkov, historian Sergei Pushkarev, writers Mark Slonim and Arkady Stolypin. You can also hear the memories of Leo Tolstoy's daughter Alexandra.

Interviews with emigrants were recorded on Radio Liberty Ra in the mid-1960s. Some of these recordings were then aired. It became possible to get acquainted with the archive in full format several years ago.

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