Русский (Россия) https://doi.org/10.22455/Emigr.3034-3518-2024-1-139-171
Abstract: Nikolai Rusanov, an outstanding figure of the Narodniks and socialist-revolutionary organizations, spent two-thirds of his creative life in emigration and only one-third in Russia, and the emigrant period can clearly be split into two parts: under the tsarist government and under the Soviet system. Technically, Rusanov's work in both periods should be recognized as emigration. But there is undoubted and fundamental difference between these periods, based on the fact which reader the works of a particular period are addressed to. What Rusanov wrote abroad during the tsarist period was addressed to a reader living in the metropolis, and was assumed to get his response. What Rusanov wrote abroad during the Soviet period was addressed to a reader who lived in the diaspora, and did not imply a response from the reader of the metropolis. In addition, there are two more differences between these periods. During the tsarist time, Rusanov was also published in Russia (primarily in the “Russian Wealth” magazine), although using pseudonyms, which did not deceive the investigative bodies of the government. In Soviet Russia Rusanov was not published due to the lack of editions suitable for his texts. Only two of his emigrant texts (memoirs) appeared in print, but were indispensably accompanied by disavowing comments from the Soviet historians. Thus, it is necessary to raise the question of the difference that existed between emigrants before and after 1917, although this requires the study of similar figures and situations.
Keywords: Nikolai Rusanov, a group of old Narodniks Volunteers, “Russian Wealth”, social revolutionaries, emigrantica.
Information about the author: Mikhail V. Stroganov, DSc in Philology, Professor, Leading Researcher, A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya St., 25A, bdg. 1, 121069 Moscow, Russia
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7618-7436
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For citation: Stroganov, M.V. “Emigrantica of Nikolai Rusanov before and after 1917.” Emigrantica. Issue 1: In memory of Oleg Korostelev, ed.-comp. E.R. Ponomarev, sci. ed. E.R. Ponomarev, M. Schruba, ed. M.S. Shchavlinskii, D.V. Zaitsev. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2024, pp. 139–171. (In Russian) https://doi.org/10.22455/Emigr.3034-3518-2024-1-139-171
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Received: September 16, 2021
Approved after reviewing: April 27, 2022
Date of publication: October 07, 2024
