Russian emigrants as professors in the Grammar and Teachers School in Pirot

Abstract

The study deals with identification of Russian emigrants who worked as lecturers in Pirot Grammar and Teachers School in the period between the two world wars as well as with sketching the segments of their biographies on the basis of the archive data of the Archive of Yugoslavia and archive of the Ministry of Education. As results of the research, the study states the names of 26 Russian emigrants who worked in the two aforementioned schools in the period from 1920, when their names appeared for the first time, till the beginning of 1940, when the Russian names are found for the last time among the lecturers. Parts of their biographies which are present in the following text mostly relate to their stay in Pirot, except in cases where archive data were used to add to the story with even more relevant information. This study can be considered as providing additional information for the research of the phenomenon of Russian emigration in Pirot, which has not been studied so far. The study will also be useful to those who will deal with the general history of Russian emigration in Serbia.