RussianRETRACTED: “Union of Russian Royal People” in emigration and plans of organization of “spring trip” to USSR. Project of I. I. Sikorsky
Liberal Arts in Russia. 2015. Vol. 4. No. 3. Pp. 187-197.
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In the article, some problems of organization attempts of “spring campaign” to the USSR (intervention of White antibolshevik emigrant-officers, getting emigrants literature across the border), which have been conducted by members of “first wave” monarchist emigration, are studied. A special place is given to the efforts in this trend of monarchist-legitimist members (supporters of pretender to the throne Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich) who relied on growth of monarchist sentiments in emigration and inside of USSR. On the example of activities and plans of “Union of Russian Royal People” named in honor the Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna in Bulgaria under the leadership of colonel G. I. Dementjev, attempts of search financial resources in USA, involvement into antibolshevik activities emigrant-officers in European countries are attentively examined. Undisputed interest is about project of parachute landing into USSR by aircraft designer I. I. Sikorsky that submitted to legitimist emigrant’s leaders in 1927. There is a brief review of I. I. Sikorsky biography, of his way as a constructor in Russia before the Revolution in 1917 and of period of his emigration in USA when he invented the helicopter in 1939. In conclusion the analysis of failures by organization of military resistance against of Soviet Russia as result of absence of financial resources and the decline of interest by ordinary emigrants to activities of their leaders is given.
Keywords
- • monarchist emigration
- • movement of legitimist
- • Union of Russian Royal People
- • Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich
- • I. I. Sikorsky
- • colonel G. I. Dementiev
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