An Article "The Livs" (1930) by Boris Dikoy (B.V. Vilde)
The offered republication is prepared in the frames of the project «Estonia between East and West: The Paradigm of the Images of "Own", "Other", "Strange", "Enemy" in Estonian Cultures in the 19th-21st Centuries» (IUT18-4). This is the republication of the article by B. Vilde - a well-known Russian writer and scholar, an émigré, a hero of the French Resistance - that was initially published in an emigrant newspaper in 1930. The text, devoted to the struggle of a small Finno-Ugric ethnic group for self-preservation, is preceded by a detailed narration about the writer himself.