"RUSSIAN BERLIN": TO THE QUESTION OF THE FORMATION OF THE SOCIO-CULTURAL PHENOMENON IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 1920s
We consider the nature of the socio-cultural phenomenon “Russian Berlin” among the Russian emigration in the first half of the 1920s. The geographical scope of this study covers the capital of Germany, Berlin, which was one of the main centers of application of Russian-emigrant cultural development in the early 1920s. It was there that the characteristic features of the cultural life of the Russian emigrants community were most clearly manifested. The source base is represented by materials of periodicals and memoirs of contemporaries illustrating the picture of Russian-emigrant life in Berlin in the first half of the 1920s. Revealed the essential aspects of the phenomenon on the example of consideration of cultural and creative activity of Russian emigrants. It is noted that when Russian emigrants left their homeland and being in a foreign cultural environment, they continued to be carriers of their culture, with which they introduced the citizens of the country of their new whereabouts, significantly introducing the West to the achievements of national culture.