BORIS WILDE: "WE BELIEVE IN THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE"
“We love Russia, because we believe in the Russian people and its historical mission …”: smenovehovskie views Russian emigrant, an ethnographer, a hero of the French Resistance Boris Wilde This article traces the socio-philosophical views of the Russian emigrant, writer, ethnographer, hero of the French Resistance Boris Vladimirovich Wilde (1908-1942). Based on the analysis of his biography, a connection is drawn between his personal experience and the development of his views on the USSR and the Russian emigration, in particular, the mentality of a part of the emigrant youth is traced. The influence of his unsuccessful escape from Estonia across Lake Peipsi in the USSR in 1927 on the formation of his views on Soviet Russia is disclosed, the autobiographical story “Renewed Longing” became the literary embodiment of his experience. On the basis of the content analysis of his article “Russia and the emigrant youth”, the peculiarities of his worldview are revealed, and also on his example, the attitude of a part of the youth of French Montparnasse to the Bolshevik experience of organizing a new state and society in the USSR is traced.