The Russian Emigrant School System in Interbellum Slovenia

Abstract

In almost every country where they settled, the Russian emigrants who had left their homeland after the defeat of the antirevolutionary forces organised their own school system. This was also the case in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians, where Russian emigrant schools were not only included in the educational system of the so-called ‘Expatriate Russia’ but integrated into the educational system of the host country as well. The Russian educational institutions in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians included some recognised institutions from Tsarist Russia, which had emigrated together with their students and teachers after the Russian Civil War, as well as institutions recently founded by Russian emigrants. The territory of present-day Slovenia hosted Russian kindergartens, primary schools, school groups, a Realgymnasium and – briefly – two cadet corps.