The squad «Vitiazes» in the Russian Student Christian Movement in Paris (1928–1934): sources for the study of Cover Image

Дружина «витязей» при Русском студенческом христианском движении в Париже (1928–1934): источники изучения
The squad «Vitiazes» in the Russian Student Christian Movement in Paris (1928–1934): sources for the study of

Author(s): Vladislav Gennadyevitch Gavrilov
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Media studies, Social history, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), Migration Studies
Published by: Издательство Исторического факультета СПбГУ
Keywords: Russian emigration; sources; the youth movement; Russian Student Christian Movement; Vitiazes; France;

Summary/Abstract: This article provides an overview of sources on the history Squad «Vitiazes» when Russian Student Christian Movement (RSCM). This youth movement emerged in 1928 in Paris and transformed by its founder, Nikolai Fyodorov in 1934 in an independent National organization of Vitiazes (NOV), still exist in the Russian diaspora and in Russia. The main groups of sources are: internal documentation Squad (program and administrative), and practical manuals, periodicals and personal documents. Internal documentation preserved mostly in the archive NOV in Paris, which began to gather even before the Second World War to the present day has not been described and cataloged. To program documents include: «The fi rst sketches of the Vitiazes» and the anthem of Vitiazes, the program in 1929 and 1933, and other documents prepared N. F. Fedorov (including orders for the Squad, and other administrative records). It is practical guide «Guide to the camps», published in 1930, are an important source of periodicals, as modern Squads and later. The former include «Bulletin of Russian Student Christian Movement», which regularly published articles and notes about life Squad, and the magazine Youth Department RSCM «For Russia, for the faith». Of course, the activities covered Squad and other emigre publications of the time, but this issue requires further study. Subsequently, in various periodicals touched upon the occurrence and the initial phase of the existence of vitiazes. These included the publication of the National Organization of Vitiazes, considers himself the successor Squad vitiazes at RSCM (magazines «U Vitiazey», «Bonfi re» and others) and various emigre publications in France, America and Australia («Posev», «New Russian Word», «Unity» and others.). The documents of a personal origin are memoirs and memories of those involved in the life of Squad or watching it from the (Metropolitan Eulogius Georgievsky and Anthony Bloom, G. Ozeretskovsky, N. F. and I. E. Fedorov et al.). This article is only a statement of the problem, which requires further study

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 24
  • Page Range: 109-120
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Russian