On February 9 at 17:00 (local time), the Russian House in Belgrade and the Center of the Russian Geographical Society invite everyone to the presentation of the book “RUSSIANS, COSMET AND TIME” by Radmila Todich-Vulichevich.
The book is a historical study of Russian emigration, which found shelter in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes after the October Revolution, and significantly influenced the development of the south of the state – Kosovo and Metohija. The publication includes memoirs of descendants of emigrants who still live in this territory.
The author revives the stories of “white” Russians – architects, professors, doctors, officers of the Imperial army, monks, priests, as well as ordinary Russian people who contributed to the life of Kosovo and Metohija. There are archival photographs in the work, which give the book additional historical value.
“Radmila Todich-Vulichevich managed to collect a huge amount of evidence from contemporaries and their descendants, most of whom were almost completely assimilated. She found, recorded and systematized valuable material that tells in a special way, from an unexpected side, about the life of a Russian person, Russian families, their exodus into the unknown, the desire to find relatives who remained in Soviet Russia, about longing for the lost Homeland… and the desire to meet it again, even for a short time, “touristically”, even if you realize that over the years the fatherland has changed radically…”, – it is noted in the review of the book by Alexey Arsenyev, a researcher on the history of Russian emigration in Serbia.