BORIS PETROVICH KADOMTSEV (1885-1969). LIFE AND WORK IN EMIGRATION
This study is devoted to the life and work of Boris Petrovich Kadomtsev, a native of Novgorod and a graduate of the St. Petersburg Polytechnic Institute, later an economist and public figure of the Russian emigration, whose legacy has not been analyzed in Russian science. The correspondence of B.P.Kadomtsev with prominent figures of the Russian emigration, in particular, with P.B.Struve, A.I.Guchkov, K.D.Nabokov is considered. The authors have studied his activities in Great Britain related to the functioning of the Volunteer Fleet, in particular, the corresponding trial, the coverage of the English agenda for some emigrant publications, in particular, his cooperation with the magazine “Russian Mind”. The article shows his contribution to the creation of the “Jubilee Collection” of the Polytechnic Institute, published in Paris in 1952-1958, which is a valuable source about the graduates of the Institute who found themselves in emigration. The analysis of the publishing work of B.P.Kadomtsev on the creation of the newspaper “Russkaya Pravda. La Justice Russe”, a complex of his publicistic heritage, as well as an assessment of the political and economic views of B.P.Kadomtsev on the nature of power, revolution, and Bolshevism. In general, the article solves the problem of returning the name of B.P.Kadomtsev to a wide readership and defining his role and place in public life and the scientific community of the Russian Diaspora.