Paris in the Middle Ages was not at all a cozy and brilliant city. The streets were cramped and often turned into sewers, since in the Middle Ages there was no sewage system. Pets easily roamed the streets, which could often cause accidents. Residents could travel around the city on horseback or mules, since carriages could not pass each other in narrow neighborhoods.

And yet Paris developed rapidly. Thanks to the Sorbonne, the city is becoming a European center of knowledge. So that students can live within the city, a campus is being created, called the Latin Quarter, in honor of the language in which education was conducted within the walls of Alma Mater.

Place de la Concorde photo 1.

The city was overgrown with the rich abbeys of Saint-Germain and Saint-Genevieve on the left bank of the Seine, and the right bank was chosen by the monastic order of the Templars, who built the Temple fortress, and the abbey of Saint-Martin de Champs was also located there.
At these times, the first discontent with royal power arose. The British managed to win the Battle of Poitiers in 1356, capturing the French king John II. The elder of the Parisian merchants, Etienne Marcel, taking advantage of the weakened royal influence, organizes a rebellion.

A year later the uprising was brutally suppressed. Marseille is killed and the future king Charles V restores royal power. Strengthening his power, Charles V expanded the Louvre, built the Bastille, and strengthened the banks of the Seine.
And even in these troubled times, the city continued to grow, but numerous epidemics and wars claimed the lives of Parisians. In 1419, Paris was captured by the British, which led to the crowning of the English king Henry VI in Notre Dame in 1431. After 5 years, Paris was returned to the French.

Luxembourg Palace photo2.

The Renaissance came to Paris with Francis I (1515–1547). The Louvre is being reconstructed into a luxurious palace, and an elegant city hall building is being erected. The Seine is overgrown with magnificent mansions. It would seem that the city is now blooming and becoming prettier. But it’s not for nothing that the word “Parisians” has the meaning of “troublemakers.” The city is shaken by religious wars. Catholics are persecuting Protestants. Thousands were killed on the night of August 23, 1572, this senseless massacre still bears the common name of St. Bartholomew's Night. The instability of royal power leads to the starvation of 13 thousand residents of Paris during the siege of the city.

Tuileries Garden photo 3.

The long-awaited peace comes during the reign of Henry IV (1589–1610), founder of the Bourbon dynasty. The Edict of Nantes put an end to religious strife in 1598. Over the next two hundred years, the city became not only the largest European capital, but also a center of culture. Each king contributes to the improvement of the city. New avenues are being laid. The Louvre is expanding. The Seine is now decorated with stone bridges.
Palaces are being built for royal mothers: the Tuileries Palace for the Queen Mother Catherine de Medici, the Luxembourg Palace for Marie de Medici, the Val de Grace for Anne of Austria. Cardinal Mazarin builds a new educational building, which later became the French Academy.

Despite the obvious rejection of the city, Louis XIV also made his contribution to the development of Paris. Orders the construction of the monumental complex Invalides. The area near the Louvre is being improved, the Tuileries Garden and the Champs Elysees are being created. Architect Le Notre introduces an innovation - radial avenues from the Place de la Concorde.

Looking through the newspaper "Vozrozhdenie" on the website of the Princeton University Library, I found the issue dated October 29, 1937, which Victoria Schweitzer refers to in her book "The Life and Being of Marina Tsvetaeva." The issue contains revelations of the subversive activities of the NKVD in Paris, in particular, the activities of Skoblin and the Union of Homecoming, one of whose active figures was S.Ya. Efron. These materials are so interesting that I think it’s worth reproducing them in their entirety.

Monarchist newspaper "Renaissance", published in 1925-1940. in Paris at the expense of oil magnate A.O. Gukasov, differed from other emigrant publications in its particular hostility and intransigence towards the Soviet system. Its first editor was P.B. Struve, who left the publication in 1927, founding his own newspaper "Russia". He was replaced by Yuri Fedorovich Semenov, who remained in this post until the newspaper was closed by the German occupation authorities.

Marina Tsvetaeva did not like the newspaper "Vozrozhdenie" and did not publish in it, preferring liberal ("Last News") and socialist publications ("Volya Rossii", "Modern Notes"). In turn, “Renaissance” often responded to her with criticism and barbs (feuilletons by S. Yablonovsky, attacks by I.A. Bunin, etc.). It is noteworthy, however, that in the difficult year for Tsvetaeva in 1938, when she found herself in the role of the wife of a fugitive Soviet spy, favorable comments about her prose appeared on the pages of Vozrozhdenie.

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PANIC AMONG KILLERS

Yu. Semenov

Conversations, negotiations, meetings in which representatives of the USSR participate are doomed to failure in advance, because the Soviet government always begins conversations with the intention of leading them to failure. The main, mortal mistake lies in the assumption, and even more so in the invitation to meetings of civilized nations of people who set out to destroy any civilization.”

The reader may think that we have quoted two phrases from our own articles. So often they were repeated on these pages in all cases of recognition of Soviet power by European states or invitations of the Finkelsteins, Radeks, Rosenbergs, Sokolnikovs-Brilliants, Suritsa, Maiskys to the League of Nations and to international conferences. Today we are happy to repeat not our words, with which we wholeheartedly agree, but the words of the French journalist J. Delbecq, who explains why the London conference is marking time.

“Maisky’s colleagues,” says Delbecq, “do not want to understand that if this person, just like them, has two arms, two legs, two eyes and in general all the other physical attributes of a person, his brain is decidedly not like theirs.” the brain and its concepts rights and morals fundamentally diverge from their concepts.”

The divergence between the people of the Comintern and other people is so great that ordinary peaceful communication between them is unthinkable. “The issue is valid between them and us,” said Clemenceau. And the other day, former Prime Minister A. Tardieu told in court in Lyon how he, as head of government, financially supported the organization of reserve military personnel, “battle crosses,” because “it was necessary to fight the destructive forces of communism.” “A terrible confession! - exclaims Popular, - Tardieu, opposing the forces of order to the forces of disorder, supported a private military organization!

Communism leads to such deviations from the rules if it is not nipped in the bud in time. In Russia, as a result of the criminal connivance of the demagogues of the Provisional Government, it was necessary to fight the Bolsheviks with arms in hand. The war that broke out in Russia continues to this day, having claimed up to thirty million human lives and caused such moral and material shocks in Russia that they spread to other European states. In Italy, the fascists had to douse communism with castor oil, like one pours ticks in order to remove them from the body of an animal; in Germany, in the fight against communism, several organizations similar to the French “battle crosses” arose, and nevertheless, the entire system of state and society had to be remade anew; In order to eradicate communism, it was necessary to destroy the radical Masonic clubs, because the nit of communism nested in them. Spain is burning out the infection of the Comintern with fire. In the Mediterranean there is a struggle against “piracy”, brought out of the dust of centuries by the Third International.

Countries that did not want to enter into communication with the Bolsheviks, or at least belatedly declared war on Bolshevism, defend their independence and thereby provide a service to other states. Thus, Switzerland, as soon as the Bolsheviks committed a crime on its territory, energetically began searching for the criminals, which other states usually do not dare to do. The murder of the former Bolshevik agent Reiss by the Bolsheviks set the entire Swiss police in motion. The Swiss discovered ramifications of the criminal organization extending to other countries. Pursuant to the proposal of the Swiss government, the French police carried out searches in France of the accomplices of this crime. And it turned out that the accomplices in the murder of Reiss were members of the same criminal organization that carried out the kidnapping of General Miller. Kondratyev, Klepinin, Efron, Skoblin, Ignatiev - one and the same gang of criminals led by the GPU in Paris. After a search on Montmorency Boulevard, in a Soviet house, it was necessary to search the premises of the Union of Returnees. In this Union, as you know, the dregs of Russian emigrant organizations gathered. At the beginning, for several years, these were insignificant people, a kind of Parisian “Khitrovtsy” who waited for years for handouts. They published some illiterate piece of paper on bad paper. But three years ago, some former leaders of Republican democrats, Eurasians, and revolutionaries joined the “Union of Returnees.” The Bolsheviks began to allocate significantly more money to this renewed organization; The magazine of returnees began to be published on good paper. In a word, they combed their hair and smoothed themselves, and at the same time the Bolsheviks began to entrust them with carrying out crimes of an international nature: the murder of Navashin, explosions of buildings in different places in France, the murder of Reiss, the kidnapping of General Miller. In the last year, when the Popular Front government came to power in France, the Homecoming Union became completely unruly. He imagined that everything was now allowed to him and began to openly recruit so-called volunteers to send them to red Spain. Its members, participating in the Russian section of the SZhT, directed this organization, which is strongly supported by Latest News, along the rails of the Communist Party. They sent anonymous threats to Russian emigrants, demanding that they vote for communist delegates; they threatened Russian emigrants who were not members of the SZT that they would be expelled from France; they forced Russian emigrants to take part in strikes with the seizure of other people's premises. They did all this at the request and under the leadership of the Soviet embassy in Paris and with the active support of Latest News. Now, frightened by a search in the Soviet house, they are trying to direct attention to the White Russians through slander. For this purpose, they send out a brochure in French to all foreign embassies in Paris, in which, imitating the tone of Russian emigrants, setting out, as if on their own, in the first half of the brochure the point of view of the “Renaissance”, in the end they accuse the “Renaissance” of organizing crimes that they themselves commit, and they attribute to us the recruitment of Russian volunteer detachments for the army of General Franco. Everyone knows that we sympathize with the gene. Franco. From the very first day of the Spanish Civil War, we openly expressed our sympathies to the general. Franco and all his assistants. We also expressed sympathy for the Russian volunteers going to white Spain. We have the right to this. But we ourselves never organized detachments to send them to Spain. This is not the newspaper's business. The newspaper has its own tasks, and we carry out these tasks strictly.

In fulfillment of our main task as an anti-Bolshevik Russian newspaper, we have always pointed out and will continue to point out the criminal activities of the Soviet official representation and all obvious Bolshevik organizations, as well as those that act under the guise of cultural, literary, charitable and other organizations, “friends of Soviet Russia.” The recent searches in Paris and the escape of five Bolshevik criminals finally lift the curtain from behind which a small part of the huge picture of Bolshevik crimes emerges. The full picture would only emerge if a search was carried out at the embassy. But, of course, one cannot even dream about this. For, even if in countries such as Italy and Germany, which openly oppose Bolshevism, criminal organizations are tolerated in their capitals - embassies in Rome and Berlin - then one cannot even think about destroying the criminal nest in a country that is friendly with the Soviet regime.

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THE FATE OF SOVIET CAREERISTS

He said that Moscow is the third Rome, that the west is rotten and Russia’s mission in the east, that Russia is Eurasia, and much more in the same spirit, and then, since he had agreed to the point that, as a result of the above, he should help the Soviet government, he served in Paris to recruit unemployed Russians to fight for communism against the gene. Franco. (This is really the East and Eurasia). And then he fled from Paris, fearing that he would be brought to justice for participating in a “dirty case.” Such is the fate of the former pioneer and former Eurasianist who became an agent of the GPU, Sergei Efron. It is unlikely that he himself believes that his fate was lucky.

There are very few, almost none of the people who changed emigration and went to serve the Bolsheviks, who actually made a career there that they themselves could consider successful.

Savinkov, gen. Slashchev - their tragedy is known to everyone. Prof. has gone missing. Erwin Grimm. In semi-poverty, as a small employee of a Moscow newspaper, Neander died in Moscow. A diplomat from the old government, Soloviev went to Moscow, hoping to become a plenipotentiary representative. But in Moscow he lived much poorer than when he was an emigrant, was not appointed anywhere and died in complete poverty. Prince Dmitry Svyatopolk-Mirsky has now been exiled to some camp, and according to some rumors has already been shot. Skoblin... It is unlikely that, if he is still alive, he feels satisfaction with his fate.

A.I. Kuprin is in such a state that he can hardly be conscious of anything at all... Kachalov, Knipper-Chekhova and Moskvin, who broke with emigration when they were in Paris, did not hide their despondency at the fact that they no longer They give big roles even from the low level to which the Art Theater has reached. We know nothing about the fate of the artist Bilibin. There are, however, exceptions. Alexey Tolstoy is probably happy with his lot. This one is unlikely to be touched. But how can one not understand the animal fear with which Alexey Ignatiev, appointed division commander and head of military educational institutions, undoubtedly left for Moscow, after he participated, according to available data, in the same “dirty cases” as Skoblin, Efron and Kondratiev.

SKOBLIN'S PATH

The magazine "Grangoire" continues to report information about the abduction of General Miller, which information, as the magazine claims, it received from an absolutely reliable source. As reported in the Renaissance, it was said in the Grangoire that Skoblin left Barcelona for Girona. After a short stay in this city, writes Grangoire, Skoblin, constantly under surveillance, was taken back to Barcelona, ​​where he remained for some time at the Hotel Del Universo, on Pablo Iglesias Street, no. 44.

In Barcelona, ​​he no longer used a passport in the name of the Polish citizen Stanislav Bulatovich. He was given a special document signed by Cap. Galejas, from the “information group no. 2, addressed to Vasily Gurov."

Skoblin had two bodyguards - the Italian Rocalli and the Serb Kristich. On October 7, 8 and 9, Skoblin met with the leaders of the autonomous center of the GPU in Barcelona (“Grengoire” indicates the addresses where these meetings took place). Finally, on October 10, accompanied by his bodyguards, Skoblin was sent to Batum on board the Soviet steamer Terek.

Gen. kidnapping Miller

Who did Skoblin intend to kidnap?

A secondary search of Skoblin's office in his home in Ozouard-la-Ferrière was carried out on Wednesday, October 27. Plevitskaya, her lawyer M. M. Filonenko and representatives of the civil suit were taken to Ozuar by car. In the presence of forensic investigator Lacoste, the seals were removed from the doors of Skoblin's office. The inspectors began to sort through papers, books and documents.

BIBLE IN GREEN BINDING

The investigative authorities, having invited two witnesses, inspected the Russian church, of which the Skoblins were parishioners. They were looking for a green-bound Bible, which Plevitskaya repeatedly asked to deliver to her. There was a suspicion that it contained the key to the cipher that Skoblin used for his secret correspondence. There was no Bible in the church. Later it was discovered in Skoblin's office among other books (though not in green, but in greenish-yellow binding).

WHAT WAS FOUND

This time, authorities found three portable typewriters. Apparently, in Skoblin’s office there was indeed a center for secret work. All papers are carefully studied: letters, leaflets, posters of Plevitskaya. She herself closely monitored the search - gave instructions, insisted on including certain documents in the case.

The search and review of documents ended at 4 o'clock. day. 90 sealed packages containing new documents, letters, etc. papers were placed in a police car and delivered to Paris to the forensic investigator March.

We have received the following information about the documents discovered at Ozuar la Ferrière.

These documents have not yet been sorted out. It will take at least two to three weeks to disassemble them. Documents discovered yesterday show that Skoblin played a leading role in the anti-Bolshevik organization White Idea. His role in the “inner line” is also confirmed from these documents.

A special “file” dedicated entirely to Messrs. was also discovered in Skoblin’s office. Zavadsky-Krasnopolsky, Katsman and Bogovut-Kolomiytsev, all of whom are referred to as “comrades” in the documents of this “case”.

WHO ELSE DID SKOBLIN WANT TO KIDNADUATE?

The newspaper "Zhur" reports sensational news that in Skoblin's notebook a plan of an apartment and an address were found under it. It turned out that the popular Russian general, Gen., lives at this address. headquarters, widely known as a military writer.

It turned out that the plan in Skoblin's notebook was the plan of his apartment.

The newspaper “Zhur” recalls that Skoblin showed special interest in the personality of this general. Skoblin tried in every possible way to get closer to him, but warned by his friends against Skoblin, the general rejected these attempts.

There are suggestions that Skoblin was plotting the kidnapping of this famous general.

IN THE COMMISSION GEN. ERDELI

Chairman of the special commission on the Skoblin case, Gen. I.E. Erdeli reported that the regiment. A. A. Zaitsov, due to receiving urgent and responsible work, can no longer participate in the work of the commission.

Exactly the same regiment. P. A. Sokolov, in view of the fact that he is overloaded with work and is unable to devote the time necessary for the meetings of the commission, asks to be released from participation in its work. The work of the commission, despite the fact that two members have left its composition, continues and will be completed.

CONVERSATION WITH GEN. TIKHMENEV

In a conversation with our employee, Gen. Tikhmenev said:

“I can tell you very little. We are still very far from any final conclusions. But we have already listened to a large number of people belonging mainly to the rank-and-file officers, who are naturally very agitated by the events that have taken place. From what we have heard, we get the impression that there is no reason why the natural suspicion resulting from these events could turn into distrust of everyone towards everyone. There is too much healthy in this environment and there is a strong charge of loyalty and hatred towards the Bolsheviks.

But I can only talk about impressions for now and, I repeat, we are still very far from making any statements.”

PRAYER SERVICE AT THE APARTMENT OF GENERAL E. K. MILLER

At the initiative of the parish council of the Church of the Sign of the Mother of God, in the apartment of N. N. Miller, Archpriest V. Timofeev served a prayer service in front of the Miraculous Image of the Sign of the Mother of God for the health and salvation of the warrior Eugene. The entire family of E.K. Miller, headed by his wife N.N. Miller, was present at the prayer service.

The publishing house existed from January 1949 to March 1974. Over the course of 26 years, he published 243 issues of the publication of the same name.
The first editor and main founder and ideologist of the "Renaissance" was P. B. Struve, who was guided by the state, imperial ideas of K. Leontyev and his cult of the Fatherland. The history of the emergence and entire existence of the magazine is as follows: at first, "Vozrozhdenie" was a large daily newspaper of the "right" sense, conceived and published in opposition to the "left" press abroad. The first issue of the newspaper was published on June 3, 1925. In the early thirties, Yu. F. Semenov replaced P. B. Struve as editor. He maintained the direction given to the newspaper by its first editor and founder. This direction remained until the end of the Renaissance.

Since 1936, during the “popular front”, when it became difficult for the right-wing press to exist, the newspaper became a weekly. On June 7, 1940, on the eve of the Germans' entry into Paris, publication was temporarily discontinued. The years of war and occupation passed, and Vozrozhdenie began to be published as a magazine in January 1949. From issues 1 to 108, from January 1949 to December 1960, the magazine was published under the title “Literary and Political Notebooks”, “Renaissance”. From issues 109 to 216 (from January 1961 to December 1969), the magazine was called: “Renaissance, a monthly literary and political magazine.” From issues 217 to 243, the magazine began to bear the subtitle “Independent Literary and Political Journal.”
The first issue of the magazine was published under the editorship of I. I. Tkhorzhevsky, then S. P. Melgunov became the editor, and, finally, Prince S. S. Obolensky and Ya. N. Gorbov.
The magazine was divided into the following sections: literature, poetry, criticism, bibliography, politics, chronicle of events, memories of the Civil War, chronicle of emigration, events in modern Russia, discussions, architecture, cinema, theater, ballet, Russian necropolis abroad... Poetry, prose , memoirs, archival materials, chronicle of cultural and literary life in exile...
The magazine published the first testimonies about Russia from people who left Russia during the war, about the German occupation of Russia, about Vlasov’s army and the Vlasovites. "Renaissance" played a big role in the life of the cultural Russian emigration, reflecting the thoughts and sentiments of the national-patriotic part of the Russian emigration, serving the cause of liberation of Russia from the communist regime, reminding the Russian emigration of the debts and responsibilities that fell to its share, also serving the Russian emigration, emphasizing her positive aspects and protecting her interests.

The magazine published: Odoevtseva, Adamovich, Teffi, Shmelev, Zaitsev, Bunin, Stepun, Zlobin, Ulyanov, G. Struve, I. Tkhorzhevsky, Yu. Annenkov, Karateev, Berberova, T. Velichkovskaya, I. Chinnov, Mayevsky, M. Vega, Y. Ivask, Prince S. S. Obolensky, A. Shimanskaya, N. Narokov, B. Pasternak, 3. Gippius, P. B. Struve, A. Kartashev, A. Denikin, P. D. Bark, French poets in Russian translations, and many other famous and lesser-known authors of Russian diaspora.
The magazine published the most valuable critical literary materials and memories of Lossky, Tchaikovsky, Akhmatova, Teffi, Pasternak, Khodasevich, Chagall, Berdyaev, Platonov, Blok, Chekhov, Turgenev, Kuprin, Mendeleev, Remizov, Anna Pavlova, unpublished letters from the Lifar collection, foreign Pushkinian, materials about Lenin, Gumilyov, Gogol, A. N. Benois...
"Vozrozhdenie" stands among the largest periodicals in the Russian diaspora, such as "Modern Notes", "Russian Notes" and is, as it were, their continuation. "Vozrozhdenie" was published in parallel with the "New Journal" and was its supplement.

Among others, the publishing house published such books as:

Gurko V.I. Tsar and Tsarina: [about Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna]. – Paris: Renaissance, 1927. – 123 p. Korchemny V. Man with Geranium. – Paris: Renaissance, . – 213s.
Lukash I.S. Snowstorm. – Paris: Renaissance, 1936. – 253 p.
Lyubimov L.D. The secret of Emperor Alexander I. – Paris: Renaissance, 1938. – 219 p.
Novikov V.N. Fascism: Essays on Italian Fascism with the application of the text of the law of April 3, 1926. Oh fascist. syndicates. – Paris: Renaissance, . – 121s.
Polovtsov P.A. Days of the eclipse: (Notes of the Commander-in-Chief of the Petrograd Military District). – Paris: Renaissance, . – 207s.
Popov K. S. Temple of Glory: At 2 hours - Paris: Renaissance, 1931. Part 2. – . – 247 pp., 10 l. ill.
The murder of Voikov and the case of Boris Koverda. – Paris: Renaissance, [after 18927]. – 118 pp., 1 l. portrait
Yablonovsky A.A. Street children. – Paris: Renaissance, 1928. – 233 p.

New Arrivals
to the electronic collection of emigrant publications
Houses of Russian Abroad named after. A. Solzhenitsyn

House of Russian Abroad named after. Over the past few years, A. Solzhenitsyn has been actively engaged in the digitization of her , solving the problems of preserving rare paper originals and ensuring wide access to information. Access to electronic collections is provided free of charge to visitors of the House library on a local computer network.

An important place in the digitization program is occupied by a valuable source for studying the history of Russian emigration of the 20th century. However, due to poor preservation and significant gaps in the completeness, they are among the most difficult to access for researchers. To recreate the completeness of the sets under agreements with other depositories, numbers that are not in the House library are digitized.

Thus, at the end of 2013, a large joint project was completed with the scientific library of the State Archives of the Russian Federation to create an electronic version of the Parisian newspaper “Renaissance”.

The newspaper "Renaissance" (Paris, 1925-1940, 4239 issues) is one of the most authoritative periodicals of the Russian diaspora. The first editor-in-chief of the newspaper was P.B. Struve, who wrote in a programmatic editorial that, in addition to the “tireless struggle against the abomination and shame of the communist yoke” and the task of liberation, “the powerful and powerful voice of history calls for a creative revival of the national spirit and national existence. ...To liberate and be liberated in order to revive and be reborn.” The newspaper adhered to this direction until June 7, 1940, when publication was “temporarily discontinued on the eve of the entry of the German army into Paris.” From 1949 to 1974, the same name began to appear in Paris. .

Many pressing problems of our time found a response on the pages of the newspaper, and active discussions were held about the fate of Russia. Today the newspaper serves as a valuable source of information about the daily life of the first wave of Russian emigration, societies and organizations, events in the field of culture and art. Among the authors of the “Renaissance” one can name such names as A.V.Amphiteatrov, N.N.Berberova, I.A.Bunin, Z.N.Gippius, Don-Aminado, V.V.Zenkovsky, I.A.Ilyin , K.A. Korovin, S.P. Melgunov, D.S. Merezhkovsky, P.P. Muratov, I. Severyanin, P.A. Sorokin, F.A. Stepun, G.P. Struve, I.D. .Surguchev, Y.K.Terapiano, N.N.Turoverov, N.A.Teffi, V.F.Khodasevich, I.S.Shmelev and many others. Without referring to the materials published on the pages of the Vozrozhdenie newspaper, the idea of ​​the history of the Russian diaspora in the interwar period will not be complete enough.

Unfortunately, today in Russia there is not a single repository where the entire set of this publication would be presented. The most complete selection has just library of the Russian State Academy of Sciences , where the newspaper files ended up as part of the RZIA collections. And it is this kit that is now available to visitors of the Children's Health and State Research Institute in electronic form. More detailed information about the newspaper and a list of available electronic versions of issues can be obtained on the newspaper’s page on the Emigrantika website - a consolidated catalog of periodicals of Russian abroad.

Remote users can order copies of individual articles from the electronic versions of issues available in the DRZ at . Services are provided on a paid basis.

A joint project with House-museum of M.I. Tsvetaeva on the digitization of another interesting publication of Russian abroad - weekly magazine “Illustrated Russia” (1924-1939, 748 issues), with which such artists as A.N. Benois, I.Ya. Bilibin, K.A. Korovin, F.A. Malyavin, F.S. Rozhankovsky collaborated, in particular, D.S. Stelletsky, A.E. Yakovlev, famous cartoonist MAD (M.A. Drizo). Now, visitors to both the M.I. Tsvetaeva House-Museum and our House have access in electronic form to almost the entire set of the magazine, the printed version of which is not available in such completeness in any of these repositories.

The Library of the House of Russian Abroad has accumulated extensive experience in this area, is ready for new projects and offers other partners cooperation in preserving and popularizing the cultural heritage of the Russian emigration.