У истоков испанской русистики: материалы Рюрика Павловича Коцебу в архиве Дома русского зарубежья им. А. Солженицына

Abstract

The regularly replenished museum and archival funds of the A. Solzhenitsyn Center for Studies of Russia Abroad provide an opportunity to restore bit by bit the history of the Russian post-revolutionary diaspora. A personal archive of small account acquired from Madrid amazes with the incredible variety of presented materials, from the teenage school geography textbook to the family tree dating back to the legendary El Sid and the first experiments of comparative Russian-Spanish studies. The article traces the ups and downs of the life of a Russian emigrant – a descendant of the branched family of Kotzebue, German and Greek by origin, Orthodox by religion, Russian patriot-nationalist by belief, Swiss doctor of law, leader of the Russian choir, Pushkin translator and researcher, one of the first teachers of Russian in Spain.