Posted on 09/02/2005 2:47:34 PM PDT by jb6
MOSCOW, September 2 (RIA Novosti, Irina Andreyeva) - Mayor of Moscow Yury Luzhkov said Friday at the opening of a library-foundation dedicated to the post-Bolshevik emigration, Russkoye Zarubezhye (Russia Abroad), that it could partly redeem "the guilt [the nation bears] to those who left our country."
The library-foundation was established on the initiative of Nobel Prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn in 1995 by the Moscow authorities with the Solzhenitsyn Public Foundation and the YMCA-Press, a Russian publishing house in Paris set up by Professor Nikita Struve.
The library has more than 1,500 memoirs written by Russian emigres, the archives of Grand Prince Nikolai Nikolayevich, Russia's commander-in-chief in World War I, Russian poetess Marina Tsvetayeva, philosopher Nikolai Berdyayev, and writer Dmitry Merezhkovsky
More than 600 letters written by a general who fought against the Bolsheviks, Anton Denikin, as well as the archives of the emigre committee for the Russian youth education are also stored in the library.
The library-foundation covers 7,000 square meters and can store up to half a million of printed works, documents, museum exhibits, memoirs, letters, and audio and video tapes.
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