2025/2(41)
special issue

Scientific practical conference
of graduate students
and young scientists

ARTS AND CULTURE SCIENCES:
ADVANCED RESEARCH

Moscow, 2025, 22-23 January

Part 1

REPORTS

Bazhenova I.

Synthesis of genres in theatrical arts (on the example of the Musical theatre ‘On Basmannaya’)

Berezina N.

Best practices for the implementation of modern measures for the preservation, use and popularization of cultural heritage
in the Vologda region

Borsukovskaya G.

The cultural system of the indigenous population of the Canary islands as a relic of Neolithic culture

Borunov S.

Specifics of commemoration
of the events of the Crimean front
of the Great Patriotic war in fiction cinematography of the Stalin and Khrushchev periods of the USSR (1944–1964)

Valkova I.

Testing of individual methods
for removing dirt from the surface
of furniture without a finishing coating

Garafutdinov D.

The period of formation of the Chekhov International theater festival as a new theatrical institution

Kostin N.

Regional сultural and information policy: challenges and prospects

Orlov S.

Artificial intelligence and determining the authorship of electronic texts
as a cultural problem

Talovin K.

Cultural potential of archaeological metal finds

Chebykin D.

The specifics of the implementation of soft power in foreign cultural policy (USA, China and Russia
for examples)

Publ. 06/05/2025

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

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