The cultural heritage of the Russian émigré community in Prague

Annotation

This article characterizes the city of Prague in the 1920s as the most favourable place for creative work of Russian émigré scholars and thinkers who had been exiled. The author of this article had a possibility to work in the Slavonic Library and Charles University in Prague; and the present article is based on this experience. A special attention is given to the lives and idea of Vasily Zenkovsky, Sergey Bulgakov, Ivan Lapshin, Alfred Boehm and Vladimir Frantsev. A contribution of T. G. Masaryk, President of Czechoslovakia, to the process of adaptation of the Russian scholars and philosophers in Prague is emphasized. It is shown that they were united by a common desire to explore the depth of the Christian teaching and its reflection on works by Feodor Dostoyevsky.

Keywords

Russian scholars and thinkers in Prague, emigration, Feodor Dostoyevsky, T. G. Masaryk, the Russian school abroad, religious philosophy, Christianity, Orthodoxy, education.

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