2025/4(43)
Contents
BASIC RESEARCH
The value matrix of national cultureas the basis for the formation
of a system of cultural heritage objects
HISTORICAL RESEARCH
In memory of rear admiral
Viktor Ananyevich Dygalo,
a participant in the Great Patriotic war and Victory Day Parade 1945
Member of the Moscow archaeological society,
the moskvoved M.I.Alexandrovsky (1865–1943) – biography and scientific heritage (based on the materials from the State Historical Museum and the Russian State Library)
Image of the Great Victory
in the spatial-symbolic structure
of the cities of Western Siberia
Military discipline in the system
of military education of servicemen of the Russian army in 1855-1914
Family Service as a Contribution
to Russia’s Historical and Cultural Heritage
MARINE CULTURAL HERITAGE
Program “Memory of the Russian Arctic” of the Marine Arctic Complex Expedition at the Natural Heritage: concept, implementation, prospects
Search for the vessel Willem Barents. Results of the expeditions of the Russian Geographical Society and the Ministry of Defense
of Russia to survey Severny Island
of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago
in 2024 and 2025
INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE
Symphonic creativity in Abkhazia: socio-cultural aspect
RUSSIAN FOREIGN HERITAGE
Architecture of Alaskan Orthodox Churches
CULTURAL HERITAGE STUDIES
Historical-navigational experiment: theory, methodology, practice
Ornamented on-grave posts
of the Tobol-Irtysh Tatars:
interpretation of cultural heritage
Problems of studying and preserving domestic antiquities in the last quarter of the 19th century
in the letters from the members
of the Moscow Archaeological Society in the funds
of the State Historical Museum
MUSEOLOGY
Cultural cooperation between Vietnam and Russia in the museum studies in Vietnam (1991–2025)
Publ. 26/11/2025
Archives
DOI 10.34685/HI.2023.53.58.014
Semenov K.
‘Through you, Christian Russia and Christian Spain are being united’:
The Letters of Russian Volunteers of Francisco Franco's Army
Abstract. Around 150 Russian White émigré volunteers fought alongside the Nationalist faction during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Their epistolary legacy convincingly demonstrates that, with the time passing by, in the mind of these White Russian volunteers the October Revolution of 1917 and the Russian Civil War somewhat merged with the Spanish events of 1936-1939.
Judging from their Russian experience, White émigrés easily interpreted the Spanish reality during the period of the Civil War, drew parallels between the past and the present, and used terminology from the Russian Civil War to brand the opposing sides, i.e. ‘the Reds’ and ‘the Whites’.
The conducted analysis of the given sources allows to conclude that the major part of the respondents identified the events in Russia and Spain, and also to speak of their special attitude towards the service in the Franco’s Army, which they perceived as a continuation of the White struggle of 1917–1922.
Key words: Spanish Civil War, Russians volunteers, letters, epistolary legacy.
Semenov Konstantin Konstantinovich
St. Philaret Institute (Moscow)
Published: The Heritage Institute Journal, 2023/2(33)
Url: http://nasledie-journal.ru/en/journals/585.html
Founder
Likhachev Russian Research
Institute for Cultural
and Natural Heritage
Publisher
Likhachev Russian Research
Institute for Cultural
and Natural Heritage
Certificate
of the Mass information mediaregistration:
ЭЛ № ФС 77–60211,
date: 17.12.2014
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4 issues per year
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